Aiptasia

OK I'm a newbie, but can someone tell me what the deal is with
Aiptasia, what makes them bad etc.

Dadof5 wrote:
OK I'm a newbie, but can someone tell me what the deal is with
Aiptasia, what makes them bad etc.

They are a type of anemone. As such, they will sting your fish and other
animals. They reproduce rapidly. Get one aiptasia in your tank, do nothing about
it, and three or four months later you will have about a thousand, with every
surface covered with them. A three month old aiptasia can easily injure and
sometimes kill a small fish, such as a Firefish.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

On Nov 6, 10:49 pm, George Patterson wrote:
Dadof5 wrote:
OK I'm a newbie, but can someone tell me what the deal is with
Aiptasia, what makes them bad etc.

They are a type of anemone. As such, they will sting your fish and other
animals. They reproduce rapidly. Get one aiptasia in your tank, do nothing about
it, and three or four months later you will have about a thousand, with every
surface covered with them. A three month old aiptasia can easily injure and
sometimes kill a small fish, such as a Firefish.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

owww!! ok definately need to watch out for those!! thanks for the
heads up.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Dadof5 wrote:
OK I'm a newbie, but can someone tell me what the deal is with
Aiptasia, what makes them bad etc.

They are a type of anemone. As such, they will sting your fish and other
animals. They reproduce rapidly. Get one aiptasia in your tank, do nothing
about it, and three or four months later you will have about a thousand,
with every surface covered with them. A three month old aiptasia can
easily injure and sometimes kill a small fish, such as a Firefish.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

I had one of those. It was attached to a rock with a mushroom. I took the
rock out (put it in a basin with aquarium water) and picked at the aiptasia
with some surgical suchures. The thing coiled back and was almost imposible
to get off. Not only that. I had my eye on that thing the day before. It
jumped off the rock it was on and got on another rock, that night, like it
knew I was coming after it. I picked at it until I got it off completly. I
put the mushroom back in the tank and they went into a stress melt down
squirting their insides out all over the tank. I had to quarantine the
mushrooms until they finished doing their thing. I thought they were going
to die. I put them back in the tank and about 10 days later the mushrooms
came back. I'm not sure if it was taking the mushrooms out of the tank or
had something to do with me killing the aiptasia.

Glad I killed it. I only knew I didn't like the way it looked.

jthread wrote:

I had one of those. It was attached to a rock with a mushroom.

Mine came in in exactly the same way. A few months later, they were all over -
and all sizes. I bought a small butterflyfish, which ate them all and then
starved to death.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Hi..

Dadof5 wrote:

OK I'm a newbie, but can someone tell me what the deal is with
Aiptasia, what makes them bad etc.

Nothing respectively nobody will ever make them "bad"..! :-)

Why don't you set up a marine nano refuge especially for them..?

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cu
Marco, natural born Aiptasia supporter.. LOL