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Originally Posted by HL649
When I use Aptasia-X I cover most of the aptasia with the solution. In about 1/2 hour the aptasia has mostly melted away. It definitely does not come back. On some of the bigger ones I don't get enough on them and have to come back and treat them again.
My new tank that I am setting up is going to have sterilized rock. There is not going to be any aptasia in it!
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sterile rock or not the beauty about aiptasia and mojanos are they are the BEST hitchhikers out there, you can try every trick in the book and all it takes is a baby head to be stuck in a crevice on a coral frag that enters your tank unknown and spreads in no time.
the best defense is knowing how to deal with them, manual removal works great(lemon juice,joes juice,kalk,aiptasia x,lime juice,boling water)when there are managable numbers but once you hit plague status theres not a needle in the world or a solution that will get them all as some of the baby heads are about 1/5 the size of a green pea
once you hit plague status you really need to consider something that eats them