Does Aiptasia affect fishes?

[BlueAbyss]

Copperbands tend to have very poor survival rates and might not fare well with the trigger. I've also heard that Longnose Butterflys will eat aiptasia, but again I would worry about how one would fare in a tank with a trigger. I understand that butterflys don't fare overly well with aggressive tankmates.

[Coincidentally]

I have some aptasia X, if you are around abbotsford I can give you some.

[no_bs]

I second the raccoon. He ate them in our tank.

[Drock169]

pretty much any non-reef safe butterfly will work, auriga butterflies work very well.

[saltwater gal]

The question about Lemon Juice is yes it does work..Just inject it in. they wilt and die...but if you have to do quite a few of them you need to do a water change, Seems to change the water parameters a bit.

I hunt them down by night with a flashlight and magniying glass so the ones I am finding are so small they kill easy. Joey's joice. If you keep finding more then you have one or more some where in the rock, I had to break up a rock once this rock was known to have this pest on it. Once the rock was broken up ( in 3 larg pieces) I found a bunch more now that they could get out in the open. Every crack an atapsia seemed to start growing. still getting rid of them got 2 last night.

Bill

[fiorano]

i used a copperband. he destroyed aptasia like it was his job and there must be a few in my rocks still cause everyonce in awhile there is some mini ones sprouting. but then we get to play a game where i hold the rock up and he hunts all around for aptasia haha he likes it i think

[peasofme]

aiptasia sting fish and release toxins like other anenome

[FishIsGood2]

I injected boiling water into its body and it worked really well.