Your aiptasia experience/s?

[DJKoop]

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.

[BC564]

I had some little ones poking out at the top of my rock....but I have 3 red legged hermit crabs which seemed to have fixed the problem. I didnt know they even liked the stuff.

[kwirky]

got to Gold's and their peppermint shrimp were inaccessible, hidden inside some rocks. So I got some joe's juice. seems to have done it. I'll know for sure in a couple days. It drove my skimmer crazy though once the pumps started back up.

As for xenia, my pulsing xenia grows like a weed in my tank. Probably means the aiptasia has perfect conditions for it.

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by DJKoop

..... He bought a Racoon Butterfly and within a month they were all gone. Now the fish nicely eats flake food and is doing great.

Hmmmm. Interesting. Particularly the eating flake food part. Good to know. Thanx for the input.

Cheers,

[Hightower]

Had quite the infestation, to the point it was stinging corals. tried everything including, joes juice, peppermints, vinegar, kalk, hot water all of which would only make a dent in the population or knock them down but not out. They came back with a vengence.

Finally decided to chance with a Copperband butterfly.

Best thing I ever did. within 2 days there wasnt one stitch of aiptasia and to this day there doesnt remain one, and even better than that hasnt touched mt corals.

[rudy]

Thought they were a cool hitchhiker. Turned out to be the biggest mistake I have ever made. I tried everything and eventually left salt as it drove me nuts. I will never have a big enough tank that I can't pull down the day the stuff hits me again.

[Scavenger]

A little update on my aiptasia experience. As I posted above aiptasia and xenia just don't seem to be able to live in my tank.

Got a nice Acro this weekend and it had an apstatia on it's rock base.

Day One: Fully expanded
Day Two: Shrivelled up
Day Three: Gone, no where to be seen.

I don't know if my longnose (new addition) or another inhabitant ate it, but I didn't see a single critter go near it at all. I even did some after lights out peeping.

It's nice to be lucky in at least one area of the reefing hobby.
Maybe I should bottle and sell my waste water as Scav's Juice. LOL!

[Cazoom]

what you running your calcium at..?
kinda wonder if high calcium kill em???

[TrailFish]

I was aptaisia free for years until I traded rock with another reefer and I've been battling them ever since (1 year). Should have practiced safe reefing.

[Psyire]

I've been battling the little creatures for quite some time. I find it nearly impossible to eliminate them from my Tank, Refugium, & Overflow all at the same time....