Aiptasia on SPS Rock

[trillyen]

Will the aiptasia kill the SPS, i have 2 peppermint shrimp in the tank for aiptasia, but they havent found it yet, i know p shrimp may eat the sps polyps but ive had good luck with them so far, plus they are well fed


Can i cut it off, or use joes juice near the sensitive sps or stlyaphora i have,same thing right!!!

thanks!!!

 

[NaH2O]

You should be fine with the joes juice near the corals.

 

[mcvicker]

Try not to get any Joe's juic on the coral. It can bleach out the coral if left on it. I killed off some sections of some of mine by leaving the joe's juice on it too long.
-chris

 

[trillyen]

eww ok thanks for the tip guys

to day when i got up it looked like the aiptasia was attaching itsself to another rock near by the rock its on.

i hope it moves over alot, so that my p shrimp can get it.

thanks FAM.

 

[Katchupoy]

Hello.

Give it more time.

I have tons of aptasia on my tank... maybe around 60 on a 40g breeder. Added 3 pepermint shrimp. It seems that they dont touch it but after several months, its almost gone... Now i see 1 or 2.

I like this approach because.
1) its more natural and no chemicals
2) shrimps looks cool to watch.

Good luck...

 

[trillyen]

in my 125 gallon i had an out break and it seemed like as soon as i put the p shrimp in there the next day i hardly saw any, but of course in my reef tank i cant be that lucky!!!


wish i could catch the one in my fowlr tank, and switch them out cause the one in my fowlr tank leaves no rock unturned, lol

thanks for the comment though, i really dont wanna use joes juice either, and you dont know how right you are as far as the p shrimp being natural!!!

 

[blind1993]

can u show us apic

 

[NaH2O]

blind - Welcome to Reef Frontiers!!!

Do you need a pic of aiptasia? Aiptasia

 

[MAGDRL Mom]

Aptasia Control works very well and I have seen no ill effects from its use.

 

[blind1993]

thz because i had no idea what it looked like and i googled adn got nothing.

 

[trillyen]

blind - Welcome to Reef Frontiers!!!

Do you need a pic of aiptasia? Aiptasia

yep, thats it thats the pest

they aint spreading though, i just got the one cause i think my p shrimp wont go over there to get it dawg gone it!!!

 

[trillyen]

can u show us apic

i could take a pic but my cam is cheap, and you wouldnt know what you was looking at.

i basically have whats in the link that Nah20 sent me

 

[trillyen]

Aptasia Control works very well and I have seen no ill effects from its use.

Thanks ma that helps, i never herd of that method, ill look into that for sure, i think next i may try a couple or a few of red legged hermits!!!

 

[TurboSnail8898]

Peppermint shrimp are pretty good at getting rid of the stuff and they save you the hassle of trying to inject or cover the aptasia.

 

[Jim Hart]

on an occasion, usually after adding somthing new, i get a few aptasia's i just go get a couple and within a few weeks they are all gone.

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