bravotango Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 I added the first few corals to my EVO 13.5 a few weeks back. This evening, I was looking closely at a rock with coral on it and noticed the item in the red circle. Is this Aiptasia? Quote Link to comment
MrP Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 It appears to be Aiptasia. The best thing to do is toss that frag and hope it didn't spawn. Quote Link to comment
rimga123 Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Take the frag out ant drown the aiptasia in super glue. it will definitely die and as long as you wont fully cover zoas with glue, they will be fine. Take the frag out ant drown the aiptasia in super glue. it will definitely die and as long as you wont fully cover zoas with glue, they will be fine. 1 Quote Link to comment
bravotango Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 Thank you for the thoughtful reply @rimga123 I just did that. Fingers crossed that it was enough. 1 Quote Link to comment
Murphs_Reef Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Or is it a dull GSP? Hard to see from that photo! 🧐 Quote Link to comment
Bsilb Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 In the passed ive used Joes Juice aiptasis eliminator. Thats a great product! I was using it in a 100 gallon tank though. Not sure about using it in a nano. But the stuff seems to come out in just a small area "dusting" the problem. Check that stuff out Quote Link to comment
JojosReef Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I don't know if this is generally acceptable, but I've been injecting boiling water directly onto the aiptasia as soon as I see one. A short fire shot as long as it's not too close to the coral--a few mm away. I tried super glue but sometimes it'd come out of the side (apparently not enough glue). The boiling water has worked well and I've only lost one zoa polyp from a poorly aimed shot. Quote Link to comment
DISQUALIFIED-QQ Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Boiling water works. Lemon or lime juice can work too. Just aim correctly. Quote Link to comment
Fant Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Thick kalk paste works well. 1 Quote Link to comment
bravotango Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 So far the super glue appears to have effectively smothered it. I stopped by my favorite LFS who advised the addition of a Peppermint Shrimp to stay on top of future instances of Aiptasia. When I added them to the tank, it spent alot of time around the area where the aiptasia was. 1 Quote Link to comment
rimga123 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 In my experience peppermits are super ineffective, i have gone through probably 8 or 10 shrimp that did not touch them. there is a lot of subspecies that don't eat aiptasia and then the ones that meant to eat aiptasia, might not touch them and they may go after corals but it has never happened to me either. So it is a hit or miss although some people had great success with then. If you only had this one aiptasia i would save your money. Quote Link to comment
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