How To Get Rid Of Aiptasia?

[dickenscd]

Somebody told me that the most effective way to get rid of aiptasia is peppermint shrimp as long as you do not have anemone in the tank.

Has anyone heard or experienced about it?

James

 

[Mr.First]

Pep.shrimp worked for me.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

There are many ways to get rid of aiptasia, kalk, joes juice, peppermint shrimp, hot water, lemon juice, lime juice, nudibranches. I had pep's and thay ate alot of my zoas. They will eat anything in the anemone family which includes zoas and mushrooms.

Can you take the rocks out of the tank without causeing great damage? I would say the best thing to do is to take the rock out, inject it with kalk or joes juice rinse it and put it back in the tank.

 

[drperetz]

I remember Ronen had always an issue with aeptasia and he used all sorts of things, but What I remember him tell which I will never forget " If u use Kalk, lime, JJ, turn off all ur power heads and remove ALLL the dead pieces cause if u dont :Up_to_som:headache: it will return 2 times stronger.

Chef is right but if u have an established reef u are obviously not gonna remove peices, though I destroyed my established reefs just to catch the 6 line wrasse...(crazy me). Good luck. Its a common issue which need constant monitoring.

 

[neptune]

i got them bad ..i tried it all it does not work they just keep coming back stronger...i
havent tried the nudibranch yet the gerbia somthing nudi....

 

[drperetz]

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neptune, may be for u getting a peppermint shrimp is a must. but thats if u are willing to put up with may be missing.... They grow big and reproduce fast..... carful with their removal...

 

[dickenscd]

There are hundreds of aiptasias on over 600 Lbs beatiful huge pieces (60 Lbs. each in average) live tonga and soloman rocks which I bought from a friend and will be put in my new 215G and 92G tanks, and I don't have time to get aiptasia one by one (actually almost impossible).

Using "peppermint shrimp" is possibly the only choice if I decide to use those rocks. Is there anyway to get the shrimp out of the tanks later on?

James

 

[marrone]

Anytime I get a new coral, and I see an Aiptasia I take a pair of tweezers and dig out the Aiptasia. I then rinse off the coral and place it in my tank. I've always done this and to this day I don't have any Aiptasia in my tank, now green bubble algae that's another story.

Now I know you can't always remove the rock form the tank, or there maybe to many on a rock, but this has worked for me as opposed to using some of the other things listed above.

 

[Davidl919]

If they are not in your main tank yet then just do the direct joe's juice,Lime juice, and then rinse in hot water. It is no guarantee that peppermint shrimp will work i have 2 and they pay no attention to my aiptasia or my anenome. The thing about peppermint shrimp is they have to be hungry in order to eat the aiptasia... so another thing you can try is buying the pepper mint and put them in the holding tank .. but once inside your main tank ..whenever you feed your fish they will scavage whatever drops and probably never starve enough to eat the aiptasia.... Oh and the nudibranch to get is the Berghia Nudibranch.

 

[redbora]

I've used lemon juice bought in the lemon form container, but u need a syringe to get the juice inside the mouth of the Aiptasia and just added until the Aiptasia bursted. just spraying lemon juice around it doesn't do anything but make it close up and wait till the juice passes

 

[tosiek]

Dynamite is my favorite.

No matter what i have used i've always had 1 or two. Never a problem though with them.

Joes juice or kalk.

 

[cnotes999]

get a "reef safe" copper band butterfly...its worked for me!

 

[tankedalot]

Peppermint shrimp

I had about 20-30 aptasia in my 30gal tank. I tried the lemon juice/vineger with a syringe and it looked like it worked for about 2 days. There was no way to get rid of all them with the lj/v so I just tried it on the 2 BIG ones that I believed to be the source of the many many little guys. As I said, it worked at first and I was estatic! I prepared to tackle the remaining horde when the BIG guys reappeared missing some tentacles but strong as ever. I decided to try the Peppermints and got 2. They demolished the little guys in about 2 weeks but the 2 BIG guys aren't being touched.

I've yet to put in any corals or the planned anemone so I can't tell you if the PS will bug them.

Bottom line, I'm very happy with the PS at present. They're cool to watch and they do clean up all the uneaten food rather quickly as well as the smaller apstasia. When they start to bug my planned fauna then I'll have to get rid of them I guess???

Just my own experience. Hope that helps you decide what to do...

 

[dickenscd]

quote:
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Originally posted by todd rose
Berghia nudi branch
www.saltyunderground.com
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The above supplier claimed

"Berghia nudibranchs eat only one thing: the dreaded aiptasia anemone, AKA glass or rock anemone (not to be confused with majano anemones). That?s all Berghia eat, nothing else, not one other thing. And, they are completely reef safe. "

Is that true?

If it's true, isn't it the best choice for my situation?

Does any fish each Berghia Nudibranch?


James