How to get rid of Aptasia outbreak

Peppermint shrimp worked for me with smaller aiptasia. Not sure if they'll
chow down the larger specimens. I got rid of it before it had the
opportunity to grow that large.
"MarkW" wrote in message
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I have a major outbreak of Aptasia in my tank and know with time it
will damage my coral. I have heard of all types of ways to get rid of
them such as getting peppermint shrimp, getting a syringe with needle
and use it to squirt vinegar into them and as well buying solutions
that you can insert with the syringe. I have tried the latter but
unfortunately when I get close to them they close up so I am not able
to do this. As well, I heard if you break them apart they multiply.
Any suggestions on how I can solve this problem?

BEST WAYI have found is to make a mix of Kalkwasser and HOT (not
boiling) warter. Suck a little of it up into a turkey baster and gently
spay it on the Aptasia.or in it's hole (cause they always see you
comming and retract). I had some and it has taken care of the problem.
Of course I tried everything else first shrimps,butterflys,
lemmonjuice............

ANother good way that is not introducing any ingredieints into a tank
to get rid of aip is to use a small tiny pieceof a styrofoam cup or
piece of foam packing peanut, and once you identify where the hole is
the aip shrinks back up into, just poke and push the piece of
styrofoam into the hole sort of pluggings up its hole. After a week or
two its dead, and nothing is spread around the tank. If your carefull
on how you pack the hole with styrofoam, it can simply be left in
place or pulled out later on. It soon turns dark and gets covered
with coraline etc anyhow.

On 3 Mar 2006 02:51:01 -0800, wrote:
BEST WAYI have found is to make a mix of Kalkwasser and HOT (not
boiling) warter. Suck a little of it up into a turkey baster and gently
spay it on the Aptasia.or in it's hole (cause they always see you
comming and retract). I had some and it has taken care of the problem.
Of course I tried everything else first shrimps,butterflys,
lemmonjuice............

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The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates....

i had no luck wiht the lemon juice and syringe, becuse its hard to get to
them, although it did kill them, well most of them, but not all. i would
get BIOLOGICAL control, like the peppermint shrimp or whatever eats them,
forget abotu the other approaches such as picking them, injecting them,
smothering them, etc..... doesnt seem to work.

Biological control is teh only way to go in the reefing world as far as i am
concerned, the lessons are invaluable and provide a systematic/scientific
approach at solving problems that can be shared with the whole community.

"MarkW" wrote in message
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I have a major outbreak of Aptasia in my tank and know with time it
will damage my coral. I have heard of all types of ways to get rid of
them such as getting peppermint shrimp, getting a syringe with needle
and use it to squirt vinegar into them and as well buying solutions
that you can insert with the syringe. I have tried the latter but
unfortunately when I get close to them they close up so I am not able
to do this. As well, I heard if you break them apart they multiply.
Any suggestions on how I can solve this problem?