I got some pieces with aptasia...

[TimberTDI]

Hey all,

I picked up some nice pieces from a tank that has a bad aptasia problem. I currently am drip acclimating the pieces and am setting the quarantine tank as I type.

My questions are:

• Can I do both the Kalk injection and the vinegar injection?
• How long should I keep this pieces in quarantine?
• If I don't visually see any aptasia on the pieces am I safe?

Thanks,

Steven

 

[deelucky]

vinegar i never heard of that i did hear boiling water and by pieces i assume rock? how about quarantine with peppermint shrimp?that might be helpful

 

[TimberTDI]

This was copied from RC:

Vinegar
Vinegar is acidic, and can be used to kill Aiptasia by injection. It has been quite effective in tests.

This chemical will lower the pH of your tank. Use small quantities, perhaps a 1ml syringe, inject small amounts, and monitor pH carefully.

 

[deelucky]

see you learn something new everyday.ill make sure if i come across that same problem to use the vinegar.(in qt of course)

 

[TimberTDI]

What should be my main concerns with having this pieces in QT and controlling the aptasia?

 

[deelucky]

i would say that care should be taken when removing them cause if it breaks up in pieces it will be just more growing.siphon out all the pieces as they fall off after injection.then just keep in qt until you feel that its over.

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

You can mix up your own "Joe's Juice"... Works better than Kalk alone.

I would NOT put the rock in your main tank until you are sure that no aptasia are going to grow back. Once you let one in your tank you are going to have years of fun ahead of you.

-Alfred

 

[BroRage]

fire

I as a bio major learned that one of the best ways to get rid of a pest that is small as that an has eggs to reproduce itself with in is to...burn the puppy up completely until you hear "snap, crackle, and pop" Grab a small lighter and put the flame right on the spot for like 10 secs....and it will definitly do the trick... no dosing required and waiting for this and it doesnt kill everything else that is on the rock...

 

[ShaunW]

I as a bio major learned that one of the best ways to get rid of a pest that is small as that an has eggs to reproduce itself with in is to...burn the puppy up completely until you hear "snap, crackle, and pop" Grab a small lighter and put the flame right on the spot for like 10 secs....and it will definitly do the trick... no dosing required and waiting for this and it doesnt kill everything else that is on the rock...

:lol2: Go medievil on it!!

However, the smell.............:scratch: !

There is a video that you would appreciate, it is a guy pouring gas on a jar of zoo nudibranchs and then brings out a blow torch! setting them on fire. Wish I could find it, which I linked here and was originally posted on RC.

BTW do you have the acans in your avatar (drool)?

 

[BroRage]

i wish

no...i be wishing to...but i do have them in red...just a small recovering frag that i went and got from that mid night madness event...they had the frag lying there..and i said hey something that regularly costs for 200 I can get 10 acan red heads for 20 since they were on sale...

and no...im not going medieval on my stuff...just when i get frags from someone else i have seen an apastia break out and it aint pretty...so i rather burn the sucker on the spot and not kill anything else off on the piece...

but pretty nuts who ever would roast some corals...

 

[fritz]

you can get a butane torch from radio shack for under $10. You can focus the cone of the flame to a very small area. Teach those suckers what time it is.........

 

[ezee]

Steven,

My questions are:

• Can I do both the Kalk injection and the vinegar injection?
• How long should I keep this pieces in quarantine?
• If I don't visually see any aptasia on the pieces am I safe?

1. You can do both but you probably don't need to.
2. A couple of weeks should do, while you are QT'ing, feed the QT and if there are still aiptasia in there you will see them grow
3. No

 

[TimberTDI]

Since the aptasiais covering some of the stuff I wanna keep, should I just start with hot water and see how it goes?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Joes juice em

 

[NYReef]

I just bought a beautiful rock with three colors of Blasto's on it that also have several aiptasia. I am using Joe's Juice on the aiptasia with good results so far. These aiptasia/mojano's pop up from time to time on my live rock, but I treat as I see them and there's nothing else you can do. It seems no matter how careful over time they will pop up, better then Xanthid crabs....:tongue1:

 

[TimberTDI]

deanos and everyone else that worked on Jon's tank:

If you happen to read this; what method did you guys use on Jon's tank? I know you made a kalk paste and it looks like you treated everything in a smaller tupperware container. How long do you leave the paste on for? Do you inject the aptasia first? If so, do you use the same paste or a more fluid one?

Thanks,
Steven

 

[tosiek]

joes juice gets em most of the time, last time i had a majano it killed it from the top then started growing (since they like to sit in holes in ur LR) like two weeks after. Took the rock out and nuked it again with joes, waited a half hour and washed it out. Hasn't popped out or regrown yet.

Heard ice cubes work too then just joes where the foot was to melt off if anything stuck there so it doesn;t regrow. make sure u don;t joes with the current going and don;t be sloppy with it or u will melt ur other corals. I took out half a button polyp from when i put the syringe in the water some dripped out the tip and landed on him.