anyone use lemon juice on aiptasia?

[spacenyc]

have apataisa on some new rocks, alot of it. have a qt tank and i put a peppermint shrimp in hasnt done anything i have noticed. has anyone actually done the lemon juice cure? i read about it but have not actually been able to find a needle. read it must be latex free needle but no local place has it. any advice from someone who has actually solved this problem. would it be worth it to just kill the rocks and then allow them to re seed? steve

 

[Deanos]

Search MR for "aiptasia". There are several "remedies" recommended including lemon juice.

 

[Zoous]

Through my experience I have had great success using boiling RO water in a syringe and injecting it into the mouth of the aptasia.

 

[JRod]

I use it and it works great.

I use a syringe and send it straight down into the mouth or if it is large enough to hit it and inject the fluid inside it.

The thing curls right up and dies in time. Trick is to inject and not have it curly back.

 

[scunfcu]

I used three peppermint shrimps in 75g and they clean up the pest after 1 week!

 

[dabgood21]

More then one peppermint is required, they won't all eat aiptasia. Lemon juice can work but I prefer not putting acid in my water, it can throw of the balance. Instead, I use a tiny bit of R/O water that I've mixed with Kalkwasser so it's thick enough to make a paste. Then use a dropper to squeeze some out over the top (mouth) of the aiptasia. It works every time but be careful not to get your mixture on any of your prize corals and anemones, it will hurt and irritate their skin.

 

[GQ22]

i think joe's juice IS nothing more than RO with Kalk. great avatar with hillary btw. Cant stand her

 

[tunicata]

def. make sure your corals do not get a spill. I mistakenly spilled some of Joe's on my orange plate! and now it has 2 pencil point sized holes!!!
It's ok in general, but hopefully that'll heal over soon!

 

[spacenyc]

does it matter what type of syringe

i heard to use a latex free syringe but no one stocked thses does it really matter. i am going to do this in my qt tank and none of the rock has any coral on it. Thanks in advance steve

 

[PComo]

i use a kalk mix in a little syringe w/out a needle- the kind you give a dog medicine with. a drop or two right on the suckers and they shrivle and pop. its actually fun. now i added 3 peppermints and havent seen one since- going on 6 months or so