Help Apastia overtaking Zoas

[Shark Bait]

I need help I don't want to use chemical but my beautful Zoa rock is being taken over HELP....

 

[Tangee]

I'd get some peppermint shrimp in there pretty quick before the aiptasia kill all your beautiful zoanthids!

Good Luck!
Susie

 

[Al G.]

Sorry, I don't have any useful information, but I must say that is a pretty cool picture.
I see zooanthids, ricordea, a clam, halimeda, caulerpa, and of course aiptasia.

Good luck in your battle against the evil aiptasia.

 

[NaH2O]

Shark Bait - is that rock easily removed? You might try (if you don't want to use chemical means) injecting them with boiling water.

 

[bam32251]

I have used a copperband in my tank for 5 years to remove aiptasias and it have been very effective. My sump is full of aiptasias but none in the tank. Not sure if copperbands would go after zoanthids or not. My tank is an SPS so I don't have any zoanthids. Best to get a juvenile and put them in the sump or isolation tank and feed them aiptasias so you ensure they have a "taste" for them.

 

[iwantone]

Go to seaslugs.com, they take a while but work great. Follow their reccomendations. GARF.org also has a section on aptasia and injectioning with kalkwaser ( but that hurts corals around it unless done as per instructions). Copperbands don't always work. Make sure you have guards on the pumps

 

[Crows Ridge]

I trust peppermint shrimp 100% for getting rid of the little beggers!

 

[Shark Bait]

Yeah I just put a few more into my tank and of course where does two of them go....right into the elephant ear..err hope he liked his Five dollar meal...sas a frasing ear.

 

[Shark Bait]

NaH2O: Shark Bait - is that rock easily removed?

Yes I can get to the rock to take it out I was thinking of putting it in my QT and dosing it there. I just don't want to kill my Zoas.

 

[iwantone]

why not buy a 10 gallon aquarium start up kit (cheap pump and heater included), put in salt water from your main tank and have the shrimp in there. Place the rocks or corals affected in there... Injecting with kalkwasser as per Garf.org is also an alternative...