What Is It??

[gcfd191]

Look closely on the rock in the pic. It looks like a little brown anenome. What is it & is it bad? Thanks!!

Ian

 

[crox99]

Aipistia.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Bad. Nuke it, kalk it, joes juice or any other treatments that will work with aiptasia.

 

[gcfd191]

Gonna get some Joe's Juice tomorrow. Thanks!!

 

[gcfd191]

Ok. Got Joe's Juice. Found 3 of them. I coated them with the Joe's Juice & they were gone within a few minutes. Didn't have to inject them.

 

[leoskee]

If you have three you probably have more. Be on the look out so that they dont continue to spread.

 

[meschaefer]

invasive little suckers, keep on the look out.

 

[gcfd191]

Any way to kill them all at once without killing my tank?

 

[meschaefer]

Any way to kill them all at once without killing my tank?

Nope

 

[reefs4life]

If you're worried about having more you might want to try a biological solution to it like getting some peppermint shrimp and maybe a copperband butterfly fish.

 

[h20 freak]

Copper bands are a bit touchy and while beautiful, shouldn't be bought to fight aiptasia, there isn't a guarantee they will eat it, or that they will eat anything.They are also quite more pricey, while you can get like 4 peppermints for like 25 bucks, there alot more hardy and will be nice cleanup additions in the end.

 

[aaron]

Peppermints aren't guaranteed to eat Aptasia either.
Best to just juice them whenever one pops up

 

[gcfd191]

Thats what I'm doing. Thanks

 

[jrobbins]

in my limited experience, without a natural solution (ie. a few peppermint shrimp) you will constantly be juicing, kalking, etc. Even then, odds are there are more hiding in places you can't see.

i futzed around with joes and other solutions till i just put a few peppermint shrimp in, and they took care of it.

 

[inkblue]

feed iT... it looKs hungry

 

[spacenyc]

peppermint shrimp

have same problem,someone gave me rock covered in alagae and apatasia.put it all in a qt tank and didnt feed it and left lights off.first week shrimp would nt touch it second wee kof nof ood almost all gone including large ones, but it has noother food in the qt

 

[h20 freak]

Peppermints aren't guaranteed to eat Aptasia either.
Best to just juice them whenever one pops up

Ya so get like 20 one of them must like it:lol: