Aptasia Issue

[btymens]

One of my rocks has just started growing this little bugger. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to get rid of them?

[Nano]

peppermint shrimp in large numbers, or berghia nudibranches if its a very extreme case

[HaZRaTTy]

Originally Posted by btymens

One of my rocks has just started growing this little bugger. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to get rid of them?

ZAPPPPPPPPPPPER!!!!

Pepermints, FileFish, or Nuds

But I would go with the Zapppper!

[btymens]

Originally Posted by HaZRaTTy

ZAPPPPPPPPPPPER!!!!

Pepermints, FileFish, or Nuds

But I would go with the Zapppper!

dumb ? what's a zapper?

[btymens]

Originally Posted by nanomano

peppermint shrimp in large numbers, or berghia nudibranches if its a very extreme case

i've heard that peppermint shrimp could make it worse meaning that when they eat it they actually end up spreading it more or they won't eat it at all. I have a fire shrimp right now and he could care less.

[Blom]

Ive had good luck with injecting them with boiling hot vinegar. Just grab a couple of needles from the drug store. Microwave vinegar for a minute and sick it up in the needle. Stab and inject the wee buggers. If you have alot you may want to do this over a couple of days/weeks as you can swing you pH with enough vinegar.

The only issue I can see with adding something to eat the problem away is what happens if they eat you clean. So I inject... with a small bit of satisfaction every time I kill one.

[HaZRaTTy]

Originally Posted by btymens

dumb ? what's a zapper?

Google Aptasia Zapper. It's exactly as it sounds haha.

[monocus]

inject it with lemon juice,smother with kalkwasser.make sure you cover the whole foot as this is where the daughter cells are,and most importantly-do this during the day so it won't release the cells.if worse comes to worse and you get a large outbreak-pm me for berghia nudibranches

[btymens]

Originally Posted by Blom

Ive had good luck with injecting them with boiling hot vinegar. Just grab a couple of needles from the drug store. Microwave vinegar for a minute and sick it up in the needle. Stab and inject the wee buggers. If you have alot you may want to do this over a couple of days/weeks as you can swing you pH with enough vinegar.

The only issue I can see with adding something to eat the problem away is what happens if they eat you clean. So I inject... with a small bit of satisfaction every time I kill one.

thanks, but what about the vinegar reacting with the tank after the injection?

[btymens]

Originally Posted by Blom

Ive had good luck with injecting them with boiling hot vinegar. Just grab a couple of needles from the drug store. Microwave vinegar for a minute and sick it up in the needle. Stab and inject the wee buggers. If you have alot you may want to do this over a couple of days/weeks as you can swing you pH with enough vinegar.

The only issue I can see with adding something to eat the problem away is what happens if they eat you clean. So I inject... with a small bit of satisfaction every time I kill one.

thanks