Aptaisia doubling about everyday to two days

[Richard Ryerson]

I bought some orange zoo about a month ago. On the rock was a couple pieces
of aptaisia that I started killing by injecting with kalkwasser. It was
working but lately as of this week it seems that they are more plentiful and
larger.

How can I get rid of these things once and for all?

I noticed some chemicals my LFS was using on his outbreak months ago. Will
this work? Will it poluted my tank, maybe harm my fish or corals?

Best regards,

Rick

Equipment, Inhabitants and Readings
46 Gallon Bowfront
10 Gallon Sump w/HOT Overflow & CAP 1800
KM Nautilus TE skimmer w/Rio 1700HF
250W 10K MH
250W Heater
1 Maroon Clown
1 Scopas Tang
1 Female Green Mandarin :D :D :D
1 Green Serpant Star (also about 3 babies in a rock)
2 baby clams (unknown species.)
1 small black Sea Squirt / Tunicate Polycarpa aurata
Large colony brown Zoanthus sp.
Medium colony blue Zoanthus sp.
Small colony brown Palythoa sp.
Frag yellow Zoanthus sp.
Frag orange Zoanthus sp.

Temp 82
pH 8.15 - 8.45
Salinity 36 ppt
Ammo 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Org very low
Alk 2.8 meq/L
Ca 415 ppm
Mg 1525 ppm
PO4 1 ppm

[Pszemol]

"Richard Ryerson" > wrote in message ...
> I bought some orange zoo about a month ago. On the rock was a couple pieces
> of aptaisia that I started killing by injecting with kalkwasser. It was
> working but lately as of this week it seems that they are more plentiful
> and larger.
>
> How can I get rid of these things once and for all?

Pepermint shrimps (Lysmata wurdermanni) always worked for me.
You just kill the big ones and shrimps will take care of the
aiptasia offspring for you. If you do not like these shrimps
just borrow ten of them for a couple of weeks and return them
after their job is done. You will be ok until you reintroduce
aiptasia to your tank with another purchase...

> I noticed some chemicals my LFS was using on his outbreak months ago.
> Will this work? Will it poluted my tank, maybe harm my fish or corals?

Aiptasia ARE corals, to be more precise: anthozoans. They are anemones.
If there were chemicals agains corals I would not expect them to work
selectively on aiptasia only and not harming other softies...

[Dan Norgard]

If they're not too big, Peppermint Shrimp (wurdimanni, not Californicus) did
well for me.
Dan


"Richard Ryerson" > wrote in message
...
I bought some orange zoo about a month ago. On the rock was a couple pieces
of aptaisia that I started killing by injecting with kalkwasser. It was
working but lately as of this week it seems that they are more plentiful and
larger.

How can I get rid of these things once and for all?

I noticed some chemicals my LFS was using on his outbreak months ago. Will
this work? Will it poluted my tank, maybe harm my fish or corals?

Best regards,

Rick

Equipment, Inhabitants and Readings
46 Gallon Bowfront
10 Gallon Sump w/HOT Overflow & CAP 1800
KM Nautilus TE skimmer w/Rio 1700HF
250W 10K MH
250W Heater
1 Maroon Clown
1 Scopas Tang
1 Female Green Mandarin :D :D :D
1 Green Serpant Star (also about 3 babies in a rock)
2 baby clams (unknown species.)
1 small black Sea Squirt / Tunicate Polycarpa aurata
Large colony brown Zoanthus sp.
Medium colony blue Zoanthus sp.
Small colony brown Palythoa sp.
Frag yellow Zoanthus sp.
Frag orange Zoanthus sp.

Temp 82
pH 8.15 - 8.45
Salinity 36 ppt
Ammo 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Org very low
Alk 2.8 meq/L
Ca 415 ppm
Mg 1525 ppm
PO4 1 ppm

[Dan of New Jersey]

Same here...three peppermint shrimps and they wiped out any signs of those
devils in a couple of days.


"Dan Norgard" > wrote in message
...
> If they're not too big, Peppermint Shrimp (wurdimanni, not Californicus)
did
> well for me.
> Dan
>
>
> "Richard Ryerson" > wrote in message
> ...
> I bought some orange zoo about a month ago. On the rock was a couple
pieces
> of aptaisia that I started killing by injecting with kalkwasser. It was
> working but lately as of this week it seems that they are more plentiful
and
> larger.
>
> How can I get rid of these things once and for all?
>
> I noticed some chemicals my LFS was using on his outbreak months ago. Will
> this work? Will it poluted my tank, maybe harm my fish or corals?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rick
>
> Equipment, Inhabitants and Readings
> 46 Gallon Bowfront
> 10 Gallon Sump w/HOT Overflow & CAP 1800
> KM Nautilus TE skimmer w/Rio 1700HF
> 250W 10K MH
> 250W Heater
> 1 Maroon Clown
> 1 Scopas Tang
> 1 Female Green Mandarin :D :D :D
> 1 Green Serpant Star (also about 3 babies in a rock)
> 2 baby clams (unknown species.)
> 1 small black Sea Squirt / Tunicate Polycarpa aurata
> Large colony brown Zoanthus sp.
> Medium colony blue Zoanthus sp.
> Small colony brown Palythoa sp.
> Frag yellow Zoanthus sp.
> Frag orange Zoanthus sp.
>
> Temp 82
> pH 8.15 - 8.45
> Salinity 36 ppt
> Ammo 0 ppm
> Nitrite 0 ppm
> Nitrate 20 ppm
> Org very low
> Alk 2.8 meq/L
> Ca 415 ppm
> Mg 1525 ppm
> PO4 1 ppm
>
>
>
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