quick help please

[deelucky]

hey guys i have this problem,i have what appears to be aipatasia and its attached to my cucumber.how should i approach this? should i just ditch the cucumber?will take pics in a few.thanks

 

[deelucky]

ok here is the best i could do till my "AA" finish charging.

 

[jenniebutterfly]

can you pull it off the cucumber? it does appear to be aiptasia, but it seems to be a weird place for it to be attached to

 

[deelucky]

i mean at first i thought it was some type of polyp but i really dont thinks so.i got a syringe so im going to have to inject with boiling water.i like the cucumber and i dont want to have to get rid of it:irked:

 

[House of Laughter]

Dee, better to yank it off if you can, it looke like a mojano and not an aptasia - aptasia typically have mmore of a trumpeted stem - could be though - tough to tell in the pics.

House

 

[ezee]

Dee,

I don't know that I would use boiling hot water around my cucumber. How long has it been on there? Maybe it will fall off from the continous movement, of course, requiring you to search, like the dickens, for it. Just be careful.

E

 

[PVsPlayhouse]

Use a syringe and inject with Alk that will get kill it. You can pull it off as well. Or you can wait till he sheeds his skin and it will come off then as well. But like ezee said then you will be going nuts to try and find it. Just do the Alk and it will be dead in a couple of mins. Or you can get some joes Jouce that works really well.

 

[deelucky]

sorry for not posting sooner but i was able to take it off and dispose of it without hurting the cucumber.thanks for the advice.

 

[LeslieS]

How did you do it?

 

[deelucky]

i gave it the lethal injection lol and then i just worked off the foot and it came off clean

 

[LeslieS]

Nice job!

 

[deelucky]

thanx

 

[PalmTree]

I had a similar situation and every time I took the cucumber out the aptasia would shrink so I couldn't get to it. It eventually fell off on it's own. I think.

 

[deelucky]

mine was like a hair over an inch and didnt retract till i gave a lethal injection of boiling water then i peeled him of without trying to leave anything behind.