Aiptasia or..

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    lol sure :)

    funny thing ive heard all sorts of stories about aiptasia, and i have never had any, but when i saw these guys i was like ohhhhhh crap better not be what i think it is, which im glad its not :)
     
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  3. reefmonkey

    reefmonkey Giant Squid

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    apitasia

    sorry about the quality. It's hard to hold a flashlight, aim and shoot.

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    wfb2270 Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    yeah its kinda funny i was freaking out about some aiptasi in my tank. looking at pictures online its tough to judge size sometimes. i went to a LFS to get some peppermint shrimp. they were in a holding tank, and were fed rocks with aiptasis on them

    i could not belive the size of some of them. you can barely see mine. i guess its never to early. but made me feel a lot better.
     
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    check this out also
    not saying that everyone who submits an image to google is correct with an ID
    but there are a number on here which have white tips

    Steve
     
  7. reefmonkey

    reefmonkey Giant Squid

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    yeah it's the last one but it's attached under the bottom rock of my scaping. My peppermints ate the little aip's but wont touch it. I've tried injecting it with kalk and boiling water but it pull clear under the rock so I can't get into it. So I'm trying the cover it with an empty shell method to block it's food and light. Supposedly it'll move up on to the shell. We'll see..just waiting for it to split off a litter.:angry:
    :)
     
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  9. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    they do look kind of similar to those. i guess ill just have to stop by the lfs this weekend to pick up some peppermint shrimp to see if they eat them, by the way do they get along with cleaners? if not ill have to use another method to get rid of them
     
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    wfb2270 Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    i have 4 with one skunk cleaner. no problem. i did just read a thread on here that they may not be quite as reef safe as advertised. its also kinda hit or miss if they do anything. they are also miss id by some LFS
     
  11. Puffer Chick

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    hmm ok maybe ill try to find some Aiptasia X their really tiny i wish i could just pluck them out with tweezers
     
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    I had good luck so far with boiling RO/DI water and a syringe w/needle...cooks the tissues so nothing's left to propagate itself.