Torching Aiptasia

[burgerchow]

Here's what I did when I bought some xenia that was attached to a mushroom covered rock. Saw one of these pesty buggers coming out of a hole in the rock a couple of weeks after I placed into the tank. ( I had dipped the corals with Revive for about half an hour first, to make sure any other bad hitchhikers didn't survive) Lo and behold, one aptasia survived and started sprouting out. I've heard many different remedies on how to deal with these buggers. Didn't have any Joe's Juice that night, but I remembered some people used vinegar or lemon juice. Also remember reading that others used some form of heat, like hot water or blow torches. Not wanting to take the rock out of the tank and maybe damaging the corals, I opted to use boiling hot white vinegar. Just heat a little in the microwave and inject it into the aptasia with a syringe. The bugger shriveled up and died immediately.Basically I was using hot acid. Best of both worlds, and free.
Since then, have never seen another aptasia in my tank.