Help identify this guy; I think he's bad

eejjrr · 01-06-2005, 02:31 AM

Please tell me what this little guy is at the base of my Xenia. From other discussions he looks like a bad anemone.

If so should I just pluck him off or is it worse?

allaboutfish37 · 01-06-2005, 02:33 AM

YEP HE IS BAD

allaboutfish37 · 01-06-2005, 02:35 AM

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I had 20 little aiptasie in my tank the were starting to take over but some i met on line said to try a copper band.so I did and he cleaned them up in a week . http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/aipatasia.htm
the only thing is to maker sure the copper band is eating before you buy one. after he ate all the aiptasie I feed him mysis shrimp he loved it.

allaboutfish37 · 01-06-2005, 02:37 AM

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eejjrr · 01-06-2005, 02:48 AM

What about peppermint shrimp? There is no way I'm going to get a copperband in my nanotank. :'( Does anyone have experience with pepermint shrimp? This is the only aiptasia that I can find.

dx7fd2 · 01-06-2005, 02:54 AM

You can use a syringe and inject the aiptasia with lemon juice. I have read that this is very effective and has to be done on a 1 to 1 basis. Make sure you can get the juice into the critter.

Peppermint shrimp supposedly eat aiptasia but I have read conflicting views on that subject. They are nice shrimp though!!!

Drew

Jason McKenzie · 01-06-2005, 02:55 AM

I agree with allabout it's defiantly Aptasia. They will spreed very quickly (Just look at my tank) so kill it now. There are a lot of different ways to kill them. I use a product called "Joe's Juice"
Do a search on Aptasia on this site you will find a lot of threads on them

J

eejjrr · 01-06-2005, 06:13 AM

OK Great! *Ive done my search and have almost all my answers! *I am going to try some injecting techniques. *My last question is this: *Do I take the rock out and use a syringe or do it right in the tank?

dx7fd2 · 01-06-2005, 12:01 PM

You can do the injection in the tank...neither the lemon juice nor the Joe's Juice will hurt anything but the aiptasia.

Drew

freshtosalt · 01-14-2005, 02:40 PM

If you haven't already used the lemon/Joe's juice, you can accomplish the same thing with just hot water in the syringe... It worked great for me. I also added 2 peppermint shrimp and they seem to have taken a liking to the Aiptasia only after I got rid of the "really big" ones. I injected hot water into app. 10 larger aiptaisa and now the rest are all gone...