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| 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% |
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03-11-2007, 06:07 PM
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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.
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03-11-2007, 09:58 PM
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Copperbanded Butterfly
I counted over 100 Aiptasia in my 230g tank mostly medium sized, I got a copperbanded butterfly fish and now most of them are gone. I'm glad I got him.
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03-12-2007, 02:23 AM
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Aiptasia - oh, bother!
Found calcium hydroxide, not sodium hydroxide as mentioned in this thread, at Home Depot and got all kinds of powder. Mix with water, heat in microwave and check to see if it is the consistency that can be shot through your syringe.
This mix was not as effective as Joes's Juice, say 60% effective versus 90% effective, but it was way less expensive. I keep both on hand. although I've wondered if Joe's Juice loses some of it's effectiveness after it has been opened ... I try to use all of my Joe's Juice within a week of opening it. I have tried vinegar, lemon juice, and hot water and have less than a 30% success rate, I'd estimate. There are 220 pounds of liverock in our 90 gallon tank, so there are places for aiptasia to grow and not be noticed ... I spend about 20 minutes every month hunting for this pest and also for majano. Can these pests cause real trouble? Definitely yes. I have a pagoda which has been stung at it's edges by aiptasia, mojano and pulsating xenia - it has never recovered from this. I also have a finger leather coral ( nicknamed Sideshow Bob), it is now 1/6th of it's former size - a very, very small aiptasia was stinging the base of this coral where we couldn't easily see it. I think this coral was weakened enough that other health issues have arisen.
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03-12-2007, 02:57 AM
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Beyond pest
aside from calcium hydroxide(heat and serve) as Brian mentions
i won't mess with any other way.. did the vinegar and lemon juice and hot water... and they only spread..insanely!! the calcium seems to stun them then they dissolve as you inject them.. aside from taking the rock out and running under hot water(yeah it kills everything too!) i have had shrim and coperbands and they didnt work... would really like to know the success of the nudibranch that eats it though...
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