Aiptasia Infestation

[Frizza]

You could always create yourself a raceway if you have loads of aiptasia. Not sure how effective they are but the theory sounds great, a good natural filter for your system.

[sssnake]

Originally Posted by Willieo101587

ssnake, how many shrimp would you get for a 55 gal? does it just depend on how many aiptasias I got?

I guess even a couple of peppermints would do the job. It may take a bit longer though, IMO.

I had alot of juvenile aiptasias popping up everywhere so I decided to go with the "Shock and Awe" approach.

If 4 of these guys did a phenomenal job on my 20 then logically I would probably go with 8 for the 55.

I decided to skip the injection part of this excercise and allow the shrimp to have a go at it first. So far .... so good! (fingers crossed)

By the way, these guys (peppermints) are in great demand. My LFS had received an order of about 40 peppermints on a Saturday and by Monday there was nothing left.

[aquagirl]

personally i have tried joe's juice on several occasions and they just seem to keep coming back for more..........

[OoNickoC]

Originally Posted by Jason McKenzie

I've never had any success with P-Shrimp but know many people who swear by them. I read somewhere that Aptasia have the ability to reproduce 400 times in 24 hours. So once you have one you will have more. The best thing to do is deal with them as you see them and every day after that until they are gone. What ever means you use.

FOR THOSE WHO USE JOES JUICE
Have you found JJ is very clumpy lately and hard to even draw into the seringe? What have you done to fix this?

J

Ive been seeing the same thing jason....i just sitr it up really good.
For those not seeing results with joes juice i would say its an aplication error. I personally despise peppermint shrimp for thier pallet towards corrilamorphs.

[queshibo]

I posted this problem about a week ago and did some searching on the internet and found out that some people have used lemon juice with an injection by syringe. well i tried this today will update tomorrow with results. heres my tank

[Willieo101587]

Hey just a happy update for everyone:
I ordered some Joe's Juice and had the old man apply it, since I was away at college. So far so good; they ate it right up and they haven't been back since. I'm not ready to count them among the dead yet, but this is the longest they've ever been gone.
I also bought a couple of peppermint shrimp to deal with the little ones. I couldn't tell if they had any effect or not because they were ony there for a week or two prior to the Joe's Juice application (I've been fighting these fill-in -the-blanks for several months and didn't want to lose my precious few coral). The aiptasia were pretty big, too, like, bigger than I thought they could get.
Thanks to everyone for the advice!

[fishflyer]

When I started my first tank a few years ago I was so excited to discover new life on my live rock. When I saw the little brown anemone thing I actually started feeding them small pieces of shrimp and scallops when I would feed my anemone after a few week of that my tank was over run with aptasia:mad: talk about a noob mistake.

I overcame the infestation with kalk mixture applied to the larger aptasia via syringe from the doctors office and 4 pep shrimp, that was in my old 55gal.

Glad to hear your are winning the battle.

[ziggy222]

i use kalkwasser paste applied with a large plastic syringe.if it shrinks thats fine,i just cover the whole area with a layer of paste and leave it there forever.i found this also works for hydroids but they have to be completely covered.peppermint shrimp only eat the tiny ones.also if you let the problem go long enough without treatment then they will spread through your water lines and filters as well.that means possibly having to replace pipes.

[Otty]

Copperband Butterfly fish will take care of it.