Mystery anemone

[GraviT]

I just discovered something this morning, hiding in a small hole in a piece of live rock. It looks like an anemone with a pink central disk and clear tentacles with white balls or bubbles on the end. When fully opened, it's about the size of a dime. When it closes, all that is visible is the pink disk.

Any ideas? I tried to take a picture, but can't manage to get it to come out.

[pdlman]

kill it-it sounds like aptasia(sp) get joes juice-if you have a FO tank then dont worry-they spread like wildfire and sting corals. I killed them with crazy glue gell-drowned them in it , then I found jj-or I heard lime juice works if you inject them with it

[GraviT]

Thanks for the reply, but it looks nothing at all like aptasia. I've got a peppermint shrimp that does a great job of taking care of those darned things.

[Craig Manoukian]

Try this link:

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...002/invert.htm

Does this look like what yu are describing? Pseudocorynactis

[Ice]

another thing that works for me is muriatic acid. [smiley=evilgrin.gif] I take small syringe full of acid and inject it with the acid, they die very quickly and the acid, as long as it is not used in large amounts, will not hram your tank in any way

Ice

[GraviT]

Bingo! Thanks again Craig!

Most of my rock is from fiji, so I'm pretty convinced thats the critter. It's a bummer that it's not safe for the fish or inverts in the tank though. Fortunately, the rock is small enough that I could drop it in my fuge and watch it grow as there isn't anything in there to hurt, save for the citizens of the pod city and some ghost shrimp that never got fed to my former lionfish. I wonder if there is a concern about it spawning, I'll have to look into that one.


Ice, thanks for the tip. Harmless as it may be, I'm paranoid enough about my tank and I'm not about to stick a syringe full of acid in there! Yikes! [smiley=crazy.gif]

[Craig Manoukian]

I mix Muriatic Acid 50/50 with hot water. *Glad you've enjoyed the success *that I've had Ice! I've eradicated 12 aiptasia with absolutely no ill effects! Got the tip from a marine biologist.

[Gresham]

FWIW, I have had those for years with no problems. I've kept them with really small fish with zero loss. I find them to be a very cool critter, but to each their own I even give them to all my friends.

[Ice]

Hi Craig

When you kill your aiptasia with your water/acid mix do you leave the rock in the tank or take it out?

I have no corals yet so i pull the rock out and inject the
aiptasia with acid. but in the future i may not want to pull out a rock with corals on it to kill aiptasia. just wondering what your method of attack was.


Thanks Ice

[milflyn]

I have had good luck with lemon juice and joes juice over the years. You will have to inject the fluid into them