Ridding a rock of aiptasia...

[kwirky]

I looked at the rock that my large toadstool's connected to this afternoon, and it was COVERED in aiptasia! the little buggers showed up in like a 20 hour time period. Some were about 3/4" across too!

So I resorted to emergency measures. I fragged the large toadstool (it was about 12-14" across) up, and I dunked the rock it was attached to (including the old stalk) into a bucket of freshwater until I know exactly what to do with the rock. I had recently gotten the toadstool and the rock it was attached to from somone on the forum who parted out their tank.

I'm now worried about the well being of my other livestock in the tank. My 6 line wrasses I put in there are rubbing against rock now, and have patches on their sides. I'm running about 2 pounds of GAC, actively through an aquaclear quickfilter, and hopefully things will turn out better in the morning.

I was planning on fragging the toadstool a while ahead, after setting up a separate tank just for it.

Any suggestions on other stuff I should to in order to protect the other livestock in the tank?? It's a 120 gallon tank with a 15 gallon sump and a 33 gallon fuge.

I'm prematurely going to have some huge toadstool frags available in the Calgary area in a few weeks, though