Aptasia Issue

[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.

[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?

[Blom]

Originally Posted by btymens

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

Im assuming you mean the pH. The vinegar will drop the pH in your tank so this should be monitored and again only done in small amounts. The amount really depends on your water volume. If I recall correctly distilled white vinegar will have a pH of around 2.5. Other than that I have not noticed any side effects

[btymens]

Originally Posted by Blom

Im assuming you mean the pH. The vinegar will drop the pH in your tank so this should be monitored and again only done in small amounts. The amount really depends on your water volume. If I recall correctly distilled white vinegar will have a pH of around 2.5. Other than that I have not noticed any side effects

thanks for the info

[BlueWorldAquatic]

depends on the amount of aiptaisa, and size of your tank.

small tank - Berghia, peppermints
larger tank - pepermints, copperbands, aiptasia filefish

Zapper - in extreme cases

fire shrimp won't touch aiptaisa

[btymens]

Originally Posted by BlueWorldAquatic

depends on the amount of aiptaisa, and size of your tank.

small tank - Berghia, peppermints
larger tank - pepermints, copperbands, aiptasia filefish

Zapper - in extreme cases

fire shrimp won't touch aiptaisa

do you carry the zapper or copperbands?

[chandigz]

I loved the satisfaction of melting the little buggers with my zapper, But that satisfaction disapeared when I realized that it was doing a better job of turning them into hundreds of tiny bits and speading them everywhere.

[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