Aptasia go by by..
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You would normally mix a tsp of kalk powder to a gallon for your top off. To do the lethal injection, you would mix a tsp of kalk to a cup of boilling water. If you are using needle syringe, draw only the top liquid after most kalk have settled, otherwise the kalk powder will clog up the needle.
If you are using kalk paste to smother the siptasia (syringe without the needle), then use more kalk powder and less water, mix to a slurry consistency, and apply a generous portion to where the aiptasia base is attached to.
If you are using kalk paste to smother the siptasia (syringe without the needle), then use more kalk powder and less water, mix to a slurry consistency, and apply a generous portion to where the aiptasia base is attached to.
i have managed to get most of mine out, but have one that is just giving me fits. his base is deep in a really porouse piece of live rock, around like three corners. when retracted it's impossible to even tell where the base is at and he sure dosn't stay out when i start coming at him with the slurry of death. at this point i would be willing to do anything to get rid of it even if i means killing the whole rock but would rather not if anyone has an idea. could i poison some food then feed it to him?
ReefsRcool, I heard they hates french kiss. Give it a try. But don't sue me over it. Otherwise, pick the rock up and dip it in a shallow tray of distilled vinegar for a few minutes, make sure the general area is submerged.
(BTW, don't do it if you have livestock that are attached to the same rock and you would kill yourself if you lose them. By dipping the rock in vinegar, you WILL lose them)
(BTW, don't do it if you have livestock that are attached to the same rock and you would kill yourself if you lose them. By dipping the rock in vinegar, you WILL lose them)
reefsRcool":144t1gjn said:
I have managed to inject kalk quickly while the crown is out with a diabetic needle (small tip) right into the mesantary (sometimes until they explode). Seemed to be effective, although don't do it near anything sensitive to kalk. And I can't guarantee the base won't grow back, but mine never have. Use a stronger dose of kalk, because it may not get much before pulling back.
i have heard alot of people who have had succes with pepermint shrimp. i am not one of them i have five currently just to eat these things but none of them even look. is there more then one species sold as a pepermint shrimp? mine are all fairly small could thet be the problem?
reefsRcool":2aj5egjq said:
Camels are sometimes sold as peppermints. They have a distint hump on their tail though.
IME, peppermints are finnicky aptasia eaters, will not touch adult aptasia at all, and often don't eat aptasia at all. Mine munched on a couple baby aptasia when I first got them, but untimately stopped eating them and they did far more damage than they were worth.
oh my goodness 8O lol problem solved. got looking at it and cussin, just said screw it and broke out the powertools. i kinda lets say straitened out the hole it was hiding in with a !/2 drill bit, scrapped like mad with a small pick and then washed out the hole with water in the sink. been over an hour think that may have done the trick and for a bonus i now have a nice little hole for my bicolor blennie to hide in. if only i could have worked duct tape into the equation somewhere :roll: does this make me a bad man?
For in the future...! 
I have found that NaOH (sodium hydroxide) works very well. The plus about it is you don't have to actually inject it but only get in the area. It creates a chemical reaction that burns the anenome. It worked for me using 4% solution that I had from a chemistry set! Just be careful not to get any other animals with it. btw i used a needle to make sure it got where it was supposed to.
nils
I have found that NaOH (sodium hydroxide) works very well. The plus about it is you don't have to actually inject it but only get in the area. It creates a chemical reaction that burns the anenome. It worked for me using 4% solution that I had from a chemistry set! Just be careful not to get any other animals with it. btw i used a needle to make sure it got where it was supposed to.nils
i've read that its the big peppermint shrimps that are more likely to eat aiptasia. but mine loved those aipatasia. but, i have to admit my peppermint shrimp ate one of my FL Ricordia polyps. Last yr sometime, it ate a blue/green polyp. My other ricordia polyps are orange and it's left those alone. Doesnt bother any corals other than that one incident. once in awhile i'll see it picking at the rocks which sorta bugs me, but most of the time it just hides or stays in one place under a ledge.
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