HELP! APTASIA

[Robin]

What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A LOT
of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not getting
any better with the APTASIA.

Current Set Up
80 Gallon
150 lbs of live rock
6 in of DSB
2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
15G Sump
1/4 HP Chiller
Berlin Hang On Skimmer
Two Maroon Clown
A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.

My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!

[Marc Levenson]

Get a bunch of PEPPERMINT shrimp, not Camel-back nor Cleaner (Skunk) shrimp.
Peppermint will consume them for you.

Marc


Robin wrote:

> What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A LOT
> of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not getting
> any better with the APTASIA.
>
> Current Set Up
> 80 Gallon
> 150 lbs of live rock
> 6 in of DSB
> 2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
> 15G Sump
> 1/4 HP Chiller
> Berlin Hang On Skimmer
> Two Maroon Clown
> A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.
>
> My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!

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[Chris Taylor]

"""What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of
.................APTASIA."""

With friends like these who needs anenomes.

Had the same problem and bought 2 peppermint shrimp. I never see the
blighters and the Aptasia has been spreading. One can boil the rock that
they reside on but the value of the live rock disuaded me from this
approach.

Apparently they don't care much for being injected with Concentrated Lemon
Juice or Vinegar. I had to go to the doctors recently and asked for a
syringe and needle, I could see the nurse scanning my arms for needle
marks... She declined, and surely each medical complaint will be treated
with suspicion from now on.

I decided against visiting drug treatment centers or STD clinics with the
same request; in case I end up on someone's database (could you just imagine
the spam?). I eventually plucked up the courage to pop into the local
chemist (drugstore). No problem, 10 disposable hypodermic syringes used for
insulin for £3.50 (about $5). Of the 6 injected, one has come back (his face
looks a little puckered though :-)). I've since found one more. I'll probaby
get the syringe out again today.

It doesn't take much to do the job, probably one to two 10th's of a
milliliter per anenome (thats about 150th of a fluid ounce or 1/50th of a
teaspoon for the metrically challenged).

If your local chemist declines to sell you syringes, try one of the bigger
shops and ask if they can sell you one of the syringe packs for travel
purposes, ie those that you might take with you if you were on your way to a
third world environment.

Good luck.


Chris

[Mike]

Raccoon butterfly will it it all. But, get rid of it afterwards because it
loves coral!

"Robin" > wrote in message
news:lpZvb.16086$kl6.15898@fed1read03...
> What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A
LOT
> of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not
getting
> any better with the APTASIA.
>
> Current Set Up
> 80 Gallon
> 150 lbs of live rock
> 6 in of DSB
> 2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
> 15G Sump
> 1/4 HP Chiller
> Berlin Hang On Skimmer
> Two Maroon Clown
> A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.
>
> My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!
>
>

[Michelle Leonard]

A copperbanded butterfly is reef safe and loves aiptasia.


"Mike" > wrote in message
...
> Raccoon butterfly will it it all. But, get rid of it afterwards because it
> loves coral!
>
> "Robin" > wrote in message
> news:lpZvb.16086$kl6.15898@fed1read03...
> > What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A
> LOT
> > of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not
> getting
> > any better with the APTASIA.
> >
> > Current Set Up
> > 80 Gallon
> > 150 lbs of live rock
> > 6 in of DSB
> > 2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
> > 15G Sump
> > 1/4 HP Chiller
> > Berlin Hang On Skimmer
> > Two Maroon Clown
> > A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.
> >
> > My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!
> >
> >
>
>
>

[Ken]

Injecting boiling water also helps but you do them one at a time so
injecting can be time consuming. I use a syringe from a refill kit I
got for my printer and it works great.
As mentioned you do nto want to boil your rock becyause you will kill
everything along with the aptasia. Peperment shrimp work good, but
from my experience they only go after the smaller ones. CoppeBanded
butterflies also work good but you want to make sure you get a healthy
one that is eating other food. Otherwise once your aptasia is gone it
will starve to death.

Ken D

"Robin" > wrote in message news:<lpZvb.16086$kl6.15898@fed1read03>...
> What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A LOT
> of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not getting
> any better with the APTASIA.
>
> Current Set Up
> 80 Gallon
> 150 lbs of live rock
> 6 in of DSB
> 2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
> 15G Sump
> 1/4 HP Chiller
> Berlin Hang On Skimmer
> Two Maroon Clown
> A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.
>
> My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!

[BR549]

what about an applicator syringe for acrylic?????

BR549

"Chris Taylor" > wrote in message
...
>
> """What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of
> ................APTASIA."""
>
> With friends like these who needs anenomes.
>
> Had the same problem and bought 2 peppermint shrimp. I never see the
> blighters and the Aptasia has been spreading. One can boil the rock that
> they reside on but the value of the live rock disuaded me from this
> approach.
>
> Apparently they don't care much for being injected with Concentrated Lemon
> Juice or Vinegar. I had to go to the doctors recently and asked for a
> syringe and needle, I could see the nurse scanning my arms for needle
> marks... She declined, and surely each medical complaint will be treated
> with suspicion from now on.
>
> I decided against visiting drug treatment centers or STD clinics with the
> same request; in case I end up on someone's database (could you just
imagine
> the spam?). I eventually plucked up the courage to pop into the local
> chemist (drugstore). No problem, 10 disposable hypodermic syringes used
for
> insulin for £3.50 (about $5). Of the 6 injected, one has come back (his
face
> looks a little puckered though :-)). I've since found one more. I'll
probaby
> get the syringe out again today.
>
> It doesn't take much to do the job, probably one to two 10th's of a
> milliliter per anenome (thats about 150th of a fluid ounce or 1/50th of a
> teaspoon for the metrically challenged).
>
> If your local chemist declines to sell you syringes, try one of the bigger
> shops and ask if they can sell you one of the syringe packs for travel
> purposes, ie those that you might take with you if you were on your way to
a
> third world environment.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>

[Chris Taylor]

"BR549" > wrote
> what about an applicator syringe for acrylic?????

Would you be injecting aptasia on the rock, or on the acrylic?

[Scott Jolly]

Couldn't agree more... My tank was almost overrun (OK - I had 20-30 and
they were spreading fast). I tried syringe (no good (for me)) and
bleaching the rock in the sun, which removed the aptasia (it balls up -
kind of nasty) but the nice purple coralline is bleached and dies back
but after only 4 hours in strong sunlight the rock looked OK in several
months...

But the butterfly did the job. That said, he also got every tube worm
and anything that hung out of a crevice. After doing the job (4 weeks
or so) I took him back to the LFS to have him help someone else...

Scott

Michelle Leonard wrote:

>A copperbanded butterfly is reef safe and loves aiptasia.
>
>
>"Mike" > wrote in message
...
>
>
>>Raccoon butterfly will it it all. But, get rid of it afterwards because it
>>loves coral!
>>
>>"Robin" > wrote in message
>>news:lpZvb.16086$kl6.15898@fed1read03...
>>
>>
>>>What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A
>>>
>>>
>>LOT
>>
>>
>>>of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not
>>>
>>>
>>getting
>>
>>
>>>any better with the APTASIA.
>>>
>>>Current Set Up
>>>80 Gallon
>>>150 lbs of live rock
>>>6 in of DSB
>>>2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
>>>15G Sump
>>>1/4 HP Chiller
>>>Berlin Hang On Skimmer
>>>Two Maroon Clown
>>>A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.
>>>
>>>My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

[Chris Taylor]

What were you using in the syringe? Lemon juice did the trick for a recent
outbreak in my tank. Not sure I'd want to put my live rock in the sun? -
costs too much..




"Scott Jolly" > wrote in message
.. .
Couldn't agree more... My tank was almost overrun (OK - I had 20-30 and
they were spreading fast). I tried syringe (no good (for me)) and bleaching
the rock in the sun, which removed the aptasia (it balls up - kind of
nasty) but the nice purple coralline is bleached and dies back but after
only 4 hours in strong sunlight the rock looked OK in several months...

But the butterfly did the job. That said, he also got every tube worm and
anything that hung out of a crevice. After doing the job (4 weeks or so) I
took him back to the LFS to have him help someone else...

Scott

Michelle Leonard wrote:

A copperbanded butterfly is reef safe and loves aiptasia.


"Mike" > wrote in message
...

Raccoon butterfly will it it all. But, get rid of it afterwards because it
loves coral!

"Robin" > wrote in message
news:lpZvb.16086$kl6.15898@fed1read03...

What is the safest and easiest way to get rid of these pests? I have A

LOT

of them. Please help! I removed all my corals because this was not

getting

any better with the APTASIA.

Current Set Up
80 Gallon
150 lbs of live rock
6 in of DSB
2 250W MH 10K 2 96W PCs Actinics
15G Sump
1/4 HP Chiller
Berlin Hang On Skimmer
Two Maroon Clown
A few Janitors for clean up but very minimal.

My tank has been running for 2 yrs now. Please help!

[Ian Sargent]

I'll second the injecting with Lemon Juice!

Worked a treat, simple, efficient and fast.....

Take the rock out of the tank first, into a bowl of tank
water, inject with lemon juice and wait about 5 mins.
Then put the rock back in the tank and all should be
OK. DON'T put the water back in the tank though!

Just my 2 pence worth.
Regards
Ian
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"Chris Taylor" > wrote in message
...
>
> What were you using in the syringe? Lemon juice did the trick for a recent
> outbreak in my tank. Not sure I'd want to put my live rock in the sun? -
> costs too much..
>