Hi All,
I think I have Aiptasia is my tank. It really looks like a feather duster and behaves in the same sort of way (retreats into a tube), but it is spreading all over the tank. I am not sure how Aiptasia behaves, and I was wondering if anyone knows?
Jason
It's rather annoying and spreads like dust around your house.
I have it too, once you get one seems you have 20 and they pop up all over.
Try a syringe with boiling water or joe's juice. They never seem to go away permanently though and can sting your corals and grow big.
Someone here got some results with peppermint shrimp. I bought one and haven't seen it since and lots of aiptasia all over.
Thanks. Maybe I'll try a peppermint shrimp as well. Anything to help. What if I grab them with the tongs can I remove them that way? Or will it just spread more?
It will spread more. Let me know where you get your peppermint. tx
Okay. I'll let you know. I just tried pulling them out with tongs. I can't catch them!!! But it sounds like a good thing I can't catch them.
tongs?!?
Not a good idea.
That's how thay spread. Each loos chunk of it grows into a new one.
Get a peppermint. He cleaned my tank.
Joe's Juice & vineger, if you're not carefull, can throw your parameters off.
Tongs= bad idea az said it all, you will be spreading around your tank like wildfire.
Peppermint shrimp= hit and miss they dont always work
Joes juice vinegar hot water= regular weeding of your garden plan on doing it every week or two
They are a pain in the butt and you may have to live with them.
BTW I have a couple of baseball size liverocks I could sell you with colonies of apatasia:) will probably remove them soon and drop them in boiling water for a while
Quote from: Julie on September 09, 2006, 10:21:54 AM
It will spread more. Let me know where you get your peppermint. tx
Julie, I got my peppermints from Marinescape. They cleaned my tank out (about 12-16 aiptasias) in a little over 24 hours and not one to be seen now.
I was advised to get 3 as they are very shy in singles, perhaps that is why you are seeing different results? I also see them all the time now (very timid at first, I think they did all their eating at night). A couple of weeks ago MS had them for $14 or 3 for $30.
HTH,
Andrew
A Copperband Butterfly solved my Aiptasia problem.
Thank you everyone for the advice. I think I am going to try a few peppermint shrimp. My tank is't big enough for a butterfly, but hopefully soon I will have one that is. They are really cool fish.
Jason
In regards to the post I earlier wrote re peppermint shrimp hit and miss, I have read somewhere that these shrimp will eat aptasia if they originated in the Carribean but the variety coming from the eastern Pacific will not. Hopeing I am not confusing things just perhaps some worthwhile info.