Aiptasia killer..... Yeah,, okay..

[ClosetFishGeek]

idk why the hell ud put lemon juice in ur tank lol. it seems counter productive to keeping an alkaline environment. I've heard about the shrimp thing and peppermint shrimp might eat really small apatasia but ive never seen them eat them ever, and ive kept them in 4 different tanks that all had apatasia at one point or another. I think that shrimp thing is like fish eating flatworms, it might happen once and a while and it might help control the problem to some extent (although ive never seen it work) but its not gonna solve the problem. Ive also heard that copperbanded butterflies eat apatasia, but i tried it and they didnt, they just nipped my corals and gave all my other fish ick. Trust me man the b ionic injection works, it flat out kills them no if ands or buts. The only side effect from it is adding some essential trace elements and boosting the alk. Its such a small amount thats necessary that the sides are negligable, but in no way at all are they even possibly detrimental to ur systems health. leave the snake oil for the next guy and do what i said if u want to get rid of the apatasia.

Why you ask ? becouse it works. And the miniscule amount that you do inject into the stalk/base of the aptasia will not have a negative impact on your tank unless it is a 1 gallon tank......:wink1:

 

[tjake68]

go on sality critters .com get a berghia nudibranch gaurentee to eat apitasia its the only thing they eat thats thier natural diet and its buy 2 get one free

 

[Bob 1000]

I have 2 berghias in my tank for the last 2 weeks one was eaten by my cuttles the the other,,,,,, I don't know..
So now we know a cuttlefish will eat a berghia,,lol... Next test subject,,,,lmao..

 

[pdnyc69]

i cover them with the green and white epoxy. they have never came back. also peppermints worked good for me before

 

[DrHarryLopez]

Kalk with water to pancake mix consistancy
i place in a sringe pump a small amt down its throat
i make sure it goes into its month
in the 2 to 3 mins it expodes!
I catch them as soon as i see one.
It usually come from a frag on a rock.
Been Atapsia free for yrs.

Maybe i'm a lucky guy

 

[tynman]

I did the nudi thing got 2 one even had eggs in the bag already.. ut them in the tank and I havent seen them since and that was a month ago but I did see th aptasia.... code b with the brightwell in a needle jabbed it right into the head poof it was gone so now after 4 days no sings of any new ones yet...

 

[ins0mniac001]

My two cents....

After trying kalk paste, and dipping, and peppermint shrimp (that my little falco hawk seems to have eaten...they're nowhere to be found...) with no luck whatsoever to combat these darn aiptasia, I finally went out and bought some Aiptasia-X.
My infestation wasn't that bad before I broke down and moved my tank, but the rocks getting banged around broke some of them up I'm sure. Two days after being set up in the new apartment the tank was starting to fill with big guys. Seems like irregardless of water conditions these things just grow and grow.
Following the directions on the aiptasiax, I unplugged all water movement devices, filters and everything, and started feeding them the solution.
In about 15 minutes of work I watched 90% of the aiptasia in my tank completely die. The trick seems to be to do exactly what the directions in the Aiptasia-X box say. SLOWLY approach the anenome, releasing little bits of solution as you do; this will stop the anenome from retracting, and most of them even grab the tip of the syringe as you get close. Once you have the syringe touching the oral disc, make sure you spread Aiptasia-X all over the disc so it can't release its plenula (sp?) and make more anenomes. Be really generous with how much you use, and in my experience, no matter how big the anenome is, it will die within a few minutes.
I even managed to get the ones growing upside down by using the angled applicator tip and feeding it until I saw the white Aiptasia-X getting down into the base.
Out of the 40-50 I fed Aiptasia-X to, only one is slowly making a return (I think his base was just too far in a crevice), the rest are completely gone.
Although I'm always very hesitant about adding chemicals to the tank, I would swear by this stuff.

But again just my two cents...I've seen a lot of people say it won't kill they're glass anenomes but after my experience that's hard to believe, maybe just not following directions?

P.S. Using an elegance coral to sting aiptasia? While I do have a 4" Elegance, it would seem to me that even if its sting is stronger than that of an aiptasia's, you would still be purposefully allowing the aiptasia to sting the elegance as well...

 

[tjake68]

just vtrying to help u out

 

[Baja170]

I was wondering when someone else who has used aiptasia-x was going to post in this thread.

+1 I agree with you 100%

 

[tynman]

After trying kalk paste, and dipping, and peppermint shrimp (that my little falco hawk seems to have eaten...they're nowhere to be found...) with no luck whatsoever to combat these darn aiptasia, I finally went out and bought some Aiptasia-X.
My infestation wasn't that bad before I broke down and moved my tank, but the rocks getting banged around broke some of them up I'm sure. Two days after being set up in the new apartment the tank was starting to fill with big guys. Seems like irregardless of water conditions these things just grow and grow.
Following the directions on the aiptasiax, I unplugged all water movement devices, filters and everything, and started feeding them the solution.
In about 15 minutes of work I watched 90% of the aiptasia in my tank completely die. The trick seems to be to do exactly what the directions in the Aiptasia-X box say. SLOWLY approach the anenome, releasing little bits of solution as you do; this will stop the anenome from retracting, and most of them even grab the tip of the syringe as you get close. Once you have the syringe touching the oral disc, make sure you spread Aiptasia-X all over the disc so it can't release its plenula (sp?) and make more anenomes. Be really generous with how much you use, and in my experience, no matter how big the anenome is, it will die within a few minutes.
I even managed to get the ones growing upside down by using the angled applicator tip and feeding it until I saw the white Aiptasia-X getting down into the base.
Out of the 40-50 I fed Aiptasia-X to, only one is slowly making a return (I think his base was just too far in a crevice), the rest are completely gone.
Although I'm always very hesitant about adding chemicals to the tank, I would swear by this stuff.

But again just my two cents...I've seen a lot of people say it won't kill they're glass anenomes but after my experience that's hard to believe, maybe just not following directions?

P.S. Using an elegance coral to sting aiptasia? While I do have a 4" Elegance, it would seem to me that even if its sting is stronger than that of an aiptasia's, you would still be purposefully allowing the aiptasia to sting the elegance as well...

A friend of mine has a store and he has a DT and all of a sudden his tank had a few aiptasia in it. as we are sitting there talking about trying to get rid of them in walks in the rep with that aiptasia x stuff. Never hearing about this stuff and the guy walked right in with it I said hey lets give it a shot.. So I went shoulder deep and getting these things. To my surprise it was cool watching these things think it was food I was giving them and then watching them melt away.....YEAH!!!! but the next week I looked at the tank and HELLO new ones and a little more then before... Well this went on for 2 months and they got crazy over taking the tank... so he put a saddle back butter fly in there and that was the only thing that took car of it... So like I have learned in this hobby what works for 1 or 2 my not work for me so I have to pick a chose what I hope will work for me... But thanks for all your comments.

 

[UnknownWaters]

I must admit that I tried the turkey baster and boiling RO water I gave them squirt and they shrank to nothing and sucked them right out of my tank and sump with the baster. I'm aiptasia free for over a year now. but I have mojanos now. and they are easy take a tweezer and rip them out. end of story.

 

[Bob 1000]

The lemon juice injected has been working for a month now no tasia,,lol...

 

[Paul B]

5 seconds with this and they turn to snot.

 

[NYC Joe]

that is a crazy contraption!

 

[Baja170]

that is a crazy contraption!

Yes what is that thing Paul?

 

[Paul B]

It's a thing I came up to disintegrate Mojanos and aiptasia. It works on 12 volts and has a DC power supply. Power goes through the stainless steel tip and the graphite electrode and the tip produces hydrogen gas which destroys the anemone in seconds. After a couple of minutes, it just disappears.

Here is a long thread about it.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/74108-zapping-mojanos.html

Here is what the end looks like.

And the entire thing. This is an older model but it has a push button in that black case.

 

[tynman]

That won't shock the fish or other coral? Do you have to take the rock out of the tank to do this? What do u do when you can't get to them cause.they are on the rock that is under another rock? I can't even get then with the syringe... I put 3 pepper mint shrimp in on Tuesday hopping they will eat them before they get eaten by my yellow corrsis wrasse or my big cleaner shrimp. I guess it a good thing that they were only $5 each.

 

[Paul B]

I don't take out any rocks, that video is in my reef. It is only 12 volts and does not shock anything. I killed about 50 of them in my reef and my LFS borrowed it to kill about a hundred.
In the top video, you can see my clam right next to it. Once my hermit crab was trying to push the thing away as I was zapping a mojano, I think he likes it.

 

[tynman]

My aptasia wont come out in to the open for me to zap them with that thing no matter what I offer them and I try hard as hell to get them to come out into the open!!! Wish I could then I would be asking you to buy one of those zappers you have...

 

[Bob 1000]

Paul,,, WOW.. Amazing.. Guys jump on this.. Paul start mass producing these,,lol..