Aiptasia Infestation

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  1. Willieo101587

    Willieo101587 Flamingo Tongue

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    Yep, what started off as one recalcitrant anemone has developed into scores of recalcitrant anemonies, and I just can't kill 'em. The Elimi-Aiptas (which I believe is essentially pickling lime) I got failed, and the boiling water injections I tried earlier today did no better. Even the ones I sucessfully injected did not die. They haven't stung any of my coral (since I don't have many) but needless to say I don't really want to do anything else to the tank until they are taken care of. So do I just keep on trying like I've been trying for months, get a butterflyfish or a shrimp that may or may not eat the aiptasia as well as my meager polyp colonies, or chuck the 300 dollars' worth of live rock and go DIY?
     
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  3. fletch

    fletch Kole Tang

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    Peppermint shrimp work very well in eliminating Aiptasia from my experience.
     
  4. coral reefer

    coral reefer Giant Squid

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    Peppermint shrimp will work pretty good at ridding and keeping under control the smaller Aiptasia Anemone's. However, I would use a product called Joe's Juice(excellent for killing Mojano and Aiptasia anemone's). A paste of kalkwasser and water works awesome as well as you inject the concoction into the mouth of the anemone with a syringe.
     
  5. nemo79

    nemo79 Zoanthid

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    you can use joes juice or try injecting them with vinegar, apparently that works as well.
     
  6. Tangster

    Tangster 3reef Sponsor

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    If interested I can give you a recipe for My juice/paste just P/M me works better then many other juices costing a 1,000% more and easy to make.. Takes about 2 minuets. to make a batch.. if you can get to them to feed them the stuff they will die before you can almost get your hands out of the water , All you need is a syringe that is used with some test kits
     
  7. kb.bear

    kb.bear Peppermint Shrimp

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    anemones are a recurring problem in my area I think the lfs are infested. IMHO
    the Joe's juice or similar calcium based remedy works best in conjunction with peppermint shrimp.
     
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  9. bouraganes

    bouraganes Peppermint Shrimp

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    My best results were mixing Joe's juice with the pickeling lime , a flashlight for cracks and crevices and alot of patience -combined that with the peppermint shrimp to clean out the babies and you've got it made
     
  10. Willieo101587

    Willieo101587 Flamingo Tongue

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    With Joe's Juice, do you have to inject them or just feed it to them? Many of them just retract when I try to poke 'em.
     
  11. bouraganes

    bouraganes Peppermint Shrimp

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    I was looking at my tank yesterday and low and behold I found 1 small colony of 3 aiptasias- I used Chem-Marin's STOP AIPTASIA ( given to me by a friend) on them last night and this morning those rascals were dead!
     
  12. bouraganes

    bouraganes Peppermint Shrimp

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    I use a plastic syringe I picked up at my local grocery store - move up to them slowly and with light pressure coat those rascals good before they know whats going on!