Ridding a rock of aiptasia...

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by KrazyKuch

Did you cut the toad stool while it was in the tank....you should always do your fragging in a seperate container...unless your fraggin SPS

no the cutting was done in a separate container I'm glad I did, because I saw all the misty stuff just oozing out as I was using the scissors on it. Man oh man it STINKS cutting up leathers btw. Everyone in the house was complaining about it

I was worried about toxins coming off the cuttings themselves, once they went into the tank. All seems well, though. I'm running an extra ammoun tof GAC for now, and the sixline wrasses have gone back to their normal behavior (no scratching against rocks).

I did a scouring of my rocks, looking for more aiptasia, and found none. But Jesus! I didn't know cinamom clowns could be so DEFENSIVE! the female on repeated occassions just went ape nuts on my hand when I was moving the rocks around. And when the lights went out, she saw my head and tried to attack it through the glass. Smacked against the glass real hard, too. Probably freaked out because I stole her nice giant toadstool

[kwirky]

ok so I've kept this aiptasia rock in a bucket of freshwater for a couple days now because I don't exactly know how to kill them off 100%.

Anyone know how to kill off the aiptasia completely? I don't care if everything else on the rock dies, I'm just going to re-seed it in the tank again.

Boil? continue the freshwater treatment? Leave out in the winter cold to freeze?