Aipetasia has reached plague conditions

[Rogue951]

I make it just thick enough to flow through the syringe. ( I use a kent sea squirt) and squirt a small puddle onto the head and bury it when it retracts.
If you have as many as u say you probably want to throw in some water changes in there because Kalk will raise PH. but since I got so few (maybe 4 or 5 every few weeks or less if I find them) I don't have to worry.

[Twinn]

Just my 2 cents but if your problems has already reached plague problems it may be to late to do something like kalk paste as it will affect your water chemistry if you use too much. If you have them overtaking your tank I would lean towards a matted file fish, peppermint shrimp or berghia nudibranchs. Just remember that some of these natural solutions will either look to your coral for food or starve and die when the aipetasia is gone.

[JaiWiz]

Just a shot in the dark but i have read lemon juice and a syringe and you inject it into the base works miracles as long as you do your tank section by section giving your tank a few days between attacks on those annoying little bastards so your ph dont get all frigged up

[outacontrol]

Peppermint shrimp all the way, as long as you have no triggers or other shrimp eating fish. For all the people that say that they had no luck with peppermint shrimp it is because they feed too much. Put the peppermints in and cut back on feeding and sit back and watch the magic.

[JaiWiz]

i've heard that if you happen to get peppermint shrimp that come from the indo area they dont eat the aiptasia but the peppermint's from florida do eat them. I dont know if this is true but jus sayin

[intarsiabox]

Originally Posted by JaiWiz

i've heard that if you happen to get peppermint shrimp that come from the indo area they dont eat the aiptasia but the peppermint's from florida do eat them. I dont know if this is true but jus sayin

I think a lot of people confuse camel shrimp with peppermint shrimp as they look very similar. They are really good for very small aiptasia and continued control after all visible ones have been eradicated. I had a tank years ago that had lots of these pests and kalk paste and 2 peppermint shrimp did the trick. I still have the shrimp after 5-6 years and have never seen another aiptasia since.

[outacontrol]

The article in the Coral magazine says all peppermints eat aiptasia as long as they are not overfed. It also states that they eat the entire aiptasia unlike most fish, therefore the aiptasia cannot regrow later. Best control available hands down. 1 year after my shrimp died I still had no aiptasia.

[globaldesigns]

Personally I would use some KALK paste and a syringe. Works wonders and it is only 25 cents for a syringe at your local drug store and Kalk is also cheap.

Mix some KALK in little bit of water so you can suck it into the syringe. Turn off all your pumps so you have a calm tank, and start sticking each beast and inject some kalk, then squirt some on top of it and leave it. Do a bunch and let them stand in a calm tank for 15 minutes. Turn on your pumps, kalk will start lifting off rocks, but this process has always worked for me. Killing them in one dose.

Good luck!

EDIT: If you have hundreds of them, don't kalk them all at once... I would do 20 or so a day, so the Kalk doesn't through your water param's out of whack.

[365seasons]

We've had the most luck with peppermints.
Just ask your LFS to show you that they are eating first.
Got 4 from Red Coral Calgary a while back, and haven't had aiptasia since!
Kevin put some aiptasia in the tanks and within minutes the shrimps were all over it.
=)

[Ya Dude]

Ive battled those for years and found success only by removing the rock and scraping them off with a screwdriver.Dont waste your time injecting or zapping they always come back eventually.Its only 50g tank,YOUUU CAAAAN DOOO IT