Aipitasia wont die

Stan Peterson wrote:
It's so stupid in some places that you might think it's easier to ger
heroin or whatever they shoot than just the syringe. I'm diabetic, and
the looks I used to get when I had to go into a pharmacy other than my
regular one drove me nuts.


same here. I am aware it is possible to get free "drug" needles from
many non-profits in new york, but you still can't legally buy an insulin
syringe without a prescription.

I never said the laws made sense.
-mat

Use a syringe commonly found in Salifert test kits. I use no needle.
I boil a cup of tank water in the microwave, and inject a syringe-full
into the hole the aiptasia lives. I repeat this several times. Have
NEVER had to repeat this procedure more than once to get rid of
aiptasia. 100% success. Just did this a couple of days ago to some
aiptasia that came on a zoanthid rock-aiptasia no more. Of course be
careful of anything close by, although I have never killed anything
other than aiptasia. The zoanthid within 20 mm of the aiptasia was
not even harmed.

I had an aiptasia plantation going on literally hundreds and hundreds of
them. I let my 125 goto hell literally doing nothing but adding water as it
evaporated but no water changes and no fish only inverts. Algae and aiptasia
were rampant. Inland aquatics sold me 2 peppermint shrimp. They were totally
useless with that many. They then sold me a full grown racoon face butterfly
fish. He ate ALL of the aiptasia within 3 days. I now have none at all and
its stayed that way. Now why oh why is the butterfly fish not doing so
well.....

"JT" wrote in message
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Ok, so it first started with one Aipitasia. I thought I killed it with
strong Kalk because it melted away into nothing. Then it came back a few
days later. In the same spot. Now I have three in the reef tank. I have
applied pure kalk powder to all three via a wet Q-tip and they melt into
nothingness only to reappear in a few days. I can't locate a needle
syringe
to inject them. I even tried sticking them with a thin copper wire ( read
this solution on a news group ) and that was almost useless. I tried to
find
some Berghia Nudibranchs ( they eat Aipitasia ) on-line, but couldn't find
any source that has them in stock. I guess I should try peppermint
shrimps.
Anyone have a proven answer to get rid of these pests? Does injecting
work?
If so, where do you get the needle? Will peppermint shrimps work? Help?

"Jimmy Chen" wrote in message
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Try this http://www.aquarium.net/faqs/aiptasia.shtml

The info might be a little outdated since it was copyrighted at '98.


Did you read it? I didn't see any information on there that would be in any
danger of being "outdated". AFAIK, there haven't been any recent
groundbreaking discoveries on the subject.

Did you read it?

I did.

I didn't see any information on there that would be in any
danger of being "outdated". AFAIK, there haven't been any recent
groundbreaking discoveries on the subject.

There have been some developments in turn of chemical treatments that is
available today and werent back then.

jc

You yourself said you let your tank go to hell, do a full battery of tests
and see what your water quality looks like --

"william bales" wrote in message
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I had an aiptasia plantation going on literally hundreds and hundreds of
them. I let my 125 goto hell literally doing nothing but adding water as
it
evaporated but no water changes and no fish only inverts. Algae and
aiptasia
were rampant. Inland aquatics sold me 2 peppermint shrimp. They were
totally
useless with that many. They then sold me a full grown racoon face
butterfly
fish. He ate ALL of the aiptasia within 3 days. I now have none at all and
its stayed that way. Now why oh why is the butterfly fish not doing so
well.....

"JT" wrote in message
...
Ok, so it first started with one Aipitasia. I thought I killed it with
strong Kalk because it melted away into nothing. Then it came back a few
days later. In the same spot. Now I have three in the reef tank. I have
applied pure kalk powder to all three via a wet Q-tip and they melt into
nothingness only to reappear in a few days. I can't locate a needle
syringe
to inject them. I even tried sticking them with a thin copper wire (
read
this solution on a news group ) and that was almost useless. I tried to
find
some Berghia Nudibranchs ( they eat Aipitasia ) on-line, but couldn't
find
any source that has them in stock. I guess I should try peppermint
shrimps.
Anyone have a proven answer to get rid of these pests? Does injecting
work?
If so, where do you get the needle? Will peppermint shrimps work? Help?