A busy afternoon!

[mrhasan]

Alright so suddenly, at the afternoon, I noticed that one of the zoa frag's rock (small) got 3 AEPTASIA!!!! I was like OMG. I took it out at once, and dipped the bottom of the rock in lemon juice leaving the top (with zoa) unexposed to the juice. The I washed the bottom with boiled water, then zapped it with a lighter and then washed it in saltwater before putting into the tank. I hope those buggers don't come back :@

Some sort of worms also came out during this treatment:



Does anyone got any ID for this?

Alongside, I also notice tiny tiny hydroids on my tank's glass that looks like these:



What should I do????

[reefwars]

amphipods and hydroids.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by reefwars

amphipods and hydroids.

Anything to worry about?

[reefwars]

global waring seems to be a hot topic these days, but we have nothing to fear but fear itself

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by reefwars

global waring seems to be a hot topic these days, but we have nothing to fear but fear itself

Narration please

[reefwars]

i think i saw the one on the left give me the stink eye so ill say all are bad....

[daniella3d]

Those amphipods will eat zoanthids if they are out of food. I bought my copperband butterfly to eat them because they were eating my zoanthids. It worked and I can rarely see them now, with the copperband active all night while the amphipods are out.

I kill those amphipods as much as I can. They don't serve any purpose in the aquarium. They only come out at night when most all fish are asleep, so they are not even fish food. Wrasses can't eat them because they sleep at night.

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Anything to worry about?

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Those amphipods will eat zoanthids if they are out of food. I bought my copperband butterfly to eat them because they were eating my zoanthids. It worked and I can rarely see them now, with the copperband active all night while the amphipods are out.

I kill those amphipods as much as I can. They don't serve any purpose in the aquarium. They only come out at night when most all fish are asleep, so they are not even fish food. Wrasses can't eat them because they sleep at night.

I have taken out three. I am not sure whether or not there's more. I generally check the rocks the frags come in (also dip them) before they go into my tank. One particular rock has a rough bottom and I suddenly noticed today that aptasias were there. So I quickly brought the piece out and did a lemon juice dip and the three pods came out and died. I hope there's no more :| Alongside, I don't have the provision of keeping copperband since my tank, as you may know, is 20 gallon only.

[Aquattro]

I try to grow the pods, the more the merrier. I pick them out of my filter sock and place them back in the tank where the fish can't get them -lol

[reefwars]

here is a list of things you can do to rid your self of these pests:

napalm
mail it to the north pole
spontanious combustion
magic??
black magic??
throw it as far as you can
step on it
freeze it
leave it on your door step
turn your heater on max
turn your heater off altogether and place your tank outside
fill your tank with both of them so the first 2 rnt so noticable??




since im sure you googled all the info you really need these are the things you may not find on google and prob not the answers your looking for but....it will work