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View Poll Results: Your experience with aiptasia (not a public poll): | |||
Never ever got them. |
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23 | 18.11% |
Been fighting them only recently. |
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13 | 10.24% |
Been battling them for a while now. |
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26 | 20.47% |
Comes and goes. |
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29 | 22.83% |
Got them before, dealt with it, never had them since. |
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36 | 28.35% |
Voters: 127. You may not vote on this poll |
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![]() How detrimental are they? i have quite a few in my tank and im assuming that they are a pest, so whats the best method of removing? livestock?
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![]() I had a bout 20 or some came on some live rocks, got 2 peppermints and i two week they have all disapeered evn large ones.
I also recently added some joe juice to a few that were on a coral. so far so good! fyi , red coral has lots of peppeermint in right now!
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![]() I have two peppermint shrimp that took care of my aiptasia but cant keep them because im adding a picaso soon that will eat them. If someone has an aiptasia problem in edmonton and wants to buy them pm me.
Thanks Cam
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two false perculas, 50lbs live rock, 65 watt power compacts, 175 watt MH, a sea urchine, a flame angel, a choclate chip sea star, a yellow tailed damsel, a boxer crab, and a conch. |
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![]() I keep a couple of peppermint shrimp, they keep the aptasia under control. I do have a patch of mojanos that I need to nuke though.
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke. Ed _______________________________________ 50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump. 130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium. 10 gallon quarantine. 60 gallon winter tank for pond fish. 300 gallon pond with waterfall. |
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![]() I have a couple in my tank. Been slowly nuking them with Joes Juice. I do about 2 a week or as I can find them. Its only been a couple of weeks so I don't know about those that have used JJ and had them grow back in greater numbers etc. I'm not sure how fast these things grow so I'm not sure what to expect. I think there are a group hiding in secret in the back of the tank where I can't reach but previously I had a whole (smallish) rock with lots of small ones on it that I just yarded out and put in the sump.
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![]() Never had any. Yet. Knock on wood....
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![]() I am battling aiptasia right now and I found that if you inject the stem with lemon juice that it seems to kill it.....
Lemon juice - $2 Diabetic Needle - $0.99 Getting rid of all the aiptasia - Priceless!!
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![]() Had tried injecting vinegar, seemed to work but they came back after a few weeks.
After seeing on Canreef, mixed up a little Kalk paste with water from thawing out some mysis then slowly apply paste over them with a syringe. Little buggers eat the stuff and die right out (been months). For the few that I couldn't reach, got a couple of peppermint shrimp and they took care of them. |
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![]() yeah i'm getting some peppermint shrimp today. If they don't work after a bit, I'm going to try to get my hands on some sodium hydroxide. heard it's the best way to deal with them. just all the places in the city want to sell 20L worth in one shot ($150 worth) when a litre's a lifetime supply for aiptasia nuking lol.
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![]() My son had a very bad infestaion of them a couple of months ago. He has a 35 gal. tank and nearly every surface was covered. Rock, overflow, pumps, you name it. He bought a Racoon Butterfly and within a month they were all gone. Now the fish nicely eats flake food and is doing great.
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