Joe's Juice
 

After trying a couple of ways to get rid of my one aptasia (vinegar injection, kalk slurry, etc) and being tired of watching the bast**d flourish and grow, I picked up a bottle of Joe's Juice to try out. I squirted a shot onto the anemone and like a puff of smoke it instantly dissolved into mush! It has been about 3 days with no sign of any grow back.

Overall I would recommend this stuff to anyone who wants to nuke an aptasia! Works like a charm.

Boiling water in a hypodermic syringe works great also! :biggrin:

aptasia
 

And for total eradication; a clean up crew of a couple of Peppermint shrimp........I always seem to miss one with the Joe's :rolleyes: .......next thing you know they are back in force.
Joe's works , for me, best on the larger more visible and accesssible aptaisa, but since they are so tenatious,( just a few petal cells are needed to grow more) I find you need something to get the ones you don't see or kill every cell....and Peppermints tend to like the small tender ones anyway :smile: .

If you are fast enough! :smile:

I have a peppermint shrimp, I think this aptasia scared him, because he never touched it! :lol:

i wonder if joes works on xenia.

My girlfriend will kill you if you harm any xenia - she will come out and take it from you if any danger is threatend. She has a small tank that i got her started on (it actually helped in the "how much was that" zone - now she is addicted :lol: ) but she wants everything that people think are pests - go figure

Rich

Hey, I have these really nice Isopods she can have!!

I hear ya on this one, I get crap everytime I pull out some pink macro algae I have growing in my tank, and I think I mentioned once about pruning the xenia and I got crap again! So I didn't tell her when I pulled some xenia out this weekend! :smile:

don't tell her I am taking a propane torch to some pretty soon :evil:

Steve

Damn -- she read the post and wants to travel to victoria - take your xenia and slap your faces for even thinking about doing that stuff :evil:

you guys are on your own - can't protect you --- sorry :cool:

What she doesn't realize is that a propane torch won't do a thing to xenia. The stuff is indestructible!!

Joes Juice seems to work well on aiptasia, Im curious if it would work on button polyps.

Boiling water has always worked for me, (although, I do three successive shots to make sure that it's dead :biggrin: ). On the flip side, I can't keep xenia to save my life, go figure :confused: .

Robert

Joe's juice is awesome, but watch out for killing other stuff. While I was killing some aptaisia, I accidently plunged too much at once because the monoject syringe got clogged. I ended up killing a nearby patch of green star polyp. Anybody kill anything else?