Ya just have to be pretty quick to jab that joker with a nice 28 ga
insulin needle / syringe ;-)
Actually if you can see the hole it retracts back into on a live rock
its easy to stick it in the hole and get the aip. In a sand bed they
dissapear and leave no hole, but thats when I use a table spoon and
slip it under them and lift them out, or a snall grate type picker
upper made by Thomas Ind which has interchangeable heads for various
tank tasks, One item I use is the grate type thingie .,sort of like a
kitty litter box scooper to allow small stuff to fall back in the box
and removes the clumps........
I personally try to frag em out of the live rock and lift em out of a
sand bed, and relocate to my Undesireables Tank....
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:27:28 GMT, "wolf" "
wrote:
the problem is not the lemon juice, its injecting teh aptasia, this method
is a big hassle
"Roy" wrote in message
.. .
YOu can get the same results with lemon juice, or if your paranoid
about injecting the stalk with lemon juice (all it takes is a tiny
drop) so ph etc is not affected. Use a syringe of kalkwasser, and just
squirt the aipstasia with it, no need to inject....I have used lemon
juice with excellent results. Unless you have a true peppermint shrimp
its not likely that the shrimp will eat it. Peppermints (wunderman or
something like that) will eat the aip, if they are hungry, but if
suitable feed is found it is unlikely it will touch it. Copperbanded
butterflys eat it but then yu have another added fish to the bio load
to contend with....
Personally I like aip, and have a 0 gal tanbk setup with nothing but
all the undesireable types normally removed from an aquarium and
flushed or destroyed. Its amaziing and is just as interesting to look
at as a fully stocked reef tank is.......Aip that I have is beautiful,
easy to keep, and its also in various colors. I especially like the
extremely brilliant florescent yellow / green aip....Its just as
pretty as any high end anenome you r going to buy. And to tell the
truth, having it propagate and grow rampantly in this tank has not
been any kind of problem.........
JOes juice is high priced IMHO, but it works, but so does lemon juice,
or kalkwasser which is a lot cheaper.
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:11:52 -0600, Martin
wrote:
Theres a product I use called Joe's Juice which I have used and it does
work ! Its also supposed to be reef safe and I've never had any
trouble
with it. You don't need to inject, you just dribble the stuff over it
to
eat and they just dissapear. Great stuff.
"Billy" wrote in
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46dnRGmfvdlCJvZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@com cast.com:
I squirted them with very hot water. I tried several other options as
well. You must be very careful with this method, as any other
critters close to the point of application will be killed, as well as
that section of live rock.
b
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