aiptasia removal

[jtvaughn]

HELP!!! Found some aiptasia growing near my bubble coral. Any advice on how to rid them would be appreciated.

 

[Coralfuture]

While I wouldn't consider aptasia an emergency the best removal method I have found is to remove the rock entirely. However there are products out there too with hit or miss success like aptasia X, Joes Juice, Kalk paste, Lemon Juice injectons, peppermint shrimp etc. Either way good luck its usually where you see 1 but there are 5 you don't see

 

[Palyzoa]

 

[wesman42]

I'm still new to reefing, but I ended up with quite a bad aiptasia infestation. I followed the lemon-juice injection method, ensured I was running carbon....and it really is the easiest and cheapest method given you stay on top of water changes.

As coral future stated: you kill 1 but miss the other small 4. It's something that you have to work on similar to hair algae.

 

[jd371]

Unless you can get the whole thing with the Aptasia-X and not just some of it I wouldn't bother because it makes it worse. Aptasia-X worked great on the big ones that were out in the open and easy to get to. The smaller ones in the holes and crevices all the Aptasia-X did was make them spread. Now I have so many of them everywhere. I've tried Peppermint but they got eaten by my Wrasse before they could do anything. My Copper Band stopped eating them after a few months. I decided to try Berghia Nudibranchs and added some this past week.

 

[Jesterrace]

Aiptasia X is very effective.......IF you catch them early on when they are small, few in number and hit them all at once. I had a single aiptasia about 7-8 months ago that hitchiked on a zoanthid frag. It was maybe an inch to an inch and a half in length and maybe 1/16 of an inch wide and I hit it with aiptasia X. After it had disappeared, as a precaution I removed the zoanthid frag (it was dead anyways). I haven't had a problem since, but I only had one and I caught it very early on.

 

[Waboss]

Berghia Nudibranchs all the way. I had a "forest" of aptasia in my old tank and picked up a few. Took maybe 2-3 weeks before I really started noticing anything, but within a week or so after that, you could easily see who was wining the battle (it wasn't the aptasia). Maybe a week or so after that, my tank was, and remained aptasia free.

 

[NaptownPzzWtr]

Peppermint shrimp

 

[Tom Blevins]

what he said

 

[wesman42]

Peppermint shrimp

You should also keep in mind that everyone has their own opinion regarding peppermint shrimp (apparently some may go rogue)

 

[mike werner]

boiling hot water and a turkey baster.the spout of a baster is wide enough to get a wide stream of hot water to cover the whole base of that nem.i prefer this method because your not putting any kind of chemicals in the system and it's free. regardles of the technique it is most important to get to the base of the nem.otherwise it just grows back.

 

[Aqua 59]

HELP!!! Found some aiptasia growing near my bubble coral. Any advice on how to rid them would be appreciated.

Peppermint shrimp and some sea slugs will eat aiptasia. Berghia sea slugs might be a good choice. Copper-band butterfly fish also eat aiptasia, but are not that easy to care for.

Hope this helps!

 

[George millette]

I tried mixing up some kalkwasser paste, it didn’t work very well, then I used joes juice.. it looked like kaulk, lol it worked, also got a sea hare for my gha, so he actually might of had something to do with it as well. I didn’t know they ate aptasia until I read it here!

 

[Jono667]

I just hit my forest of aiptasia with aphasia x. Shrimp and file fish were not keeping up and wouldn't touch the big fellas. The result was pretty impresive. Just like in the promo vids. I now have about 40 grayish shriveled corpses. Waited for 30 mins before switching the pumps back on. A few blew away immediately the rest are swaying skinny tendrills. I left a few small ones for shrimp snacking. Not much work added to periodic tank cleaning. If a few come back i will hit an again in a few weeks. Only used about 20% of the stuff. $14 delivered from aquariumspecialty

 

[wesman42]

I just hit my forest of aiptasia with aphasia x. Shrimp and file fish were not keeping up and wouldn't touch the big fellas. The result was pretty impresive. Just like in the promo vids. I now have about 40 grayish shriveled corpses. Waited for 30 mins before switching the pumps back on. A few blew away immediately the rest are swaying skinny tendrills. I left a few small ones for shrimp snacking. Not much work added to periodic tank cleaning. If a few come back i will hit an again in a few weeks. Only used about 20% of the stuff. $14 delivered from aquariumspecialty

I had great success with aiptasia x as well. However, I noticed that new ones were still popping up everyone and I just assumed it was because they had propagated as a last ditch effort or possibly even before I killed mine.

If my current tank (which has that same aiptasia rock from my last tank) ends up with problems then I'll probably get some nudis.

 

[Evan28395950]

I used joe’s Juice, killed all 3, 1 new one popped up in same area. Time for some more fun, lol

 

[Jono667]

yes, if half of them come back i wouldnt mind another go at them, they had become a huge distraction from the rest of my minions. they have a larger swim area now as the aipts had become too big.

 

[Jono667]

1 hour after treatment

 

[Jono667]

 

[Jono667]

looks like a few survived for round 2.