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Never ending battle with ASSTAISIA....i mean aptaisia.....

melly mel

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Had it under control for a while injecting kalk paste but now they have tripled in quantity!! What else can i do to eliminate these bastards!?!?! All my sps are now recovering from my last crash and getting the full colors back....only problem now are these little mother fathers. What do you guys recommend?
 
Peppermint shrimp if you don't have too many LPS work wonders along with kalk paste. Lately too I've been using Jim's (jbon) method of control with a large syringe and boiling water, fill the syringe and get the tip as close to the nem as possible and slowly cook it, the method works best with the hottest water possible, in fact by the time yo get to the end of the syringe the water is not as potent as the initial squirt.
 
I've tried peppermints in the past and they just disappeared literally overnight. I found one in my skimmer and never seen the other 2 ever since i dropped them in. With the boiling water, do i mix it with kalk or joe's juice or just straight boiling water? And where can i find a large syringe? Right now I just use the syringe from one of my salifert test kits. With the boiling water im assuming i will need a glass syringe?
 
I'm in the same boat as you Rommel. I have 6 peppermint shrimp in the tank but I think they only eat the stuff on the side they're on. I think they're afraid of the cleaner shrimp. So I gotta kalk paste the other side of the tank every week. I think you have to blast with regular straight water not sure if you should use RO though. Not sure if it needs to be glass because it's hot water. Might be able to use the aiptasia-x syringes. Has a needle tip to shoot it right in the mouth.
 
Someone (Charles? Jim?) brought a whole slough of the large 2oz syringes to a meeting recently, I'm pretty sure you can get them at a drug store though.

I just use boiling fresh water in mine.
 
I've had hit & miss with Peppermints, but eventually the peppermints will wipe them out. I have 3 in my 180 and they haven't damaged any coral. they do steal food during target feeding, but i just remember to give them a squirt before squirting the corals. :D
I wouldn't give up on pepps, the Joe's Juice & Kalk never worked enough for me to eradicate them as they'd still pop up somewhere.
 
Thanks guys, gonna check out the drug store for a syringe after work and give the boiling water a try tonight. I'll maybe try some peps again to maybe keep them in check in case some spores spread.

What are your thoughts on nudibranchs? I saw a website that sold some specificaly for aiptaisia but forgot what that was. Are they worth trying?
 
pep shrimps worked on small aiptasias for me. The larger ones were left alone. I had to get a kliens butterfly for that. it cleared out the tank in a week, but soom after went for all my acans and zoas.

If you need some syringes Mel LMK....1ml all the way up to 60ml...
 
I took down my RBTA tank because them f'ers were getting too out of control. Luckily the rock with the RBTAs had only a couple, so I simply broke that rock off, tossed it in an acrylic tank hooked to my SPS tank with a light over it. All other rock is drying out in buckets, I might sell it, but knowing aiptasia it'll still survive. I would like to get the tank back up again, but I'm not sure how long I should wait.. maybe fill the whole thing with freshwater and simply let it run through .
 
I wonder how long you would have to let the rock dry before the aps die off? I have a bunch of clean cured rocks that i've been curing and thinking of swapping with the apt infested rocks. But figured if i tear down the structure, might as well swap my tanks already. I have some nice rocks i want to use in the future but want to make sure no aptaisia on it.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I dunno how long it would take but the 4 most resilient things known to man kind in no particular order

Cockroaches
Bacteria
Aiptasia
Twinkies
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+ GSP and a woman in her 2nd trimester waking you up @ 3AM because she wants kosher dill spears and seedless watermelon with a sticker that certifies its from Mexico.
 
I use a turkey baster to hit the cotton candy algae with boiling water. It does not seem to raise the temp to use a quart of RO/DI water boiling at one time. I have been getting closer and closer to the coral and they seem ok as only what is right at the opening gets the boiling water on it. with in a quarter inch of porites, and montis. Getting it to places on the side of rock and under it have me working on ideas to bend the tip of turkey baster or glue on a 90 or 'U'.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I dunno how long it would take but the 4 most resilient things known to man kind in no particular order

Cockroaches
Bacteria
Aiptasia
Twinkies
Click to expand...


Add Valonia and the Hostess fruit pies to that list please.

A very good suggestion made here with the peps is to ask the LFS to pu something with aptasia in the tank they are in and see which ones go to it. those are the ones you want to buy. Think I remember reading that the aptasia nudis are tough to keep because they tend to be tasty morsels for other tank inhabitents like wrasses.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I dunno how long it would take but the 4 most resilient things known to man kind in no particular order

Cockroaches
Bacteria
Aiptasia
Twinkies
Click to expand...

Actually, that looks like in descending order of yumminess :D
 
yardartist said:
I use a turkey baster to hit the cotton candy algae with boiling water. It does not seem to raise the temp to use a quart of RO/DI water boiling at one time. I have been getting closer and closer to the coral and they seem ok as only what is right at the opening gets the boiling water on it. with in a quarter inch of porites, and montis. Getting it to places on the side of rock and under it have me working on ideas to bend the tip of turkey baster or glue on a 90 or 'U'.
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I didnt even think about using a turkey baster! Im worried too about the boiling water getting near some corals because I have aips right on the base of some SPS, very near some softies and in between polyps.
 
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