HELP MY TANK HAS Aiptasia WHat should i do?

[riffi eli]

I thought that these things are good corals but i just found out that i was wrong!!!! Please tell me what to do!!!!!!

 

[Mreefer]

joes juice

 

[aznt1217]

Aiptasia X. I hear Joe's juice is hit or miss

 

[D1J8Z]

peppermint shrimp if you dont have fish that will eat them

 

[riffi eli]

thanks guys how many pepermint shrimps? i have a 90 gal

 

[D1J8Z]

as many as u can afford they do better in groups

 

[Awibrandy]

You could do a quick search here for Aiptasia! You will get a ton of information on how to rid your tank of them.
The hits or miss on all the different applications as well!!!!!!

How many do you have?

I use plain old White Vinegar out of my kitchen cabinet. Applied with a syringe directly into it's mouth. Gone right away...

 

[thesauce]

Yep, peppermint shrimp is the way to go. Mine worked like a charm

 

[riffi eli]

Ok thanks

 

[anthony27]

aptisa x worked good for me

 

[straightjiggy10]

1 peppermint shrimp per 5gallon

 

[aaron23]

my tank would require 30 peppermints
use good judgement

1 peppermint shrimp per 5gallon

 

[nycdominicanreef]

Natural way

you could by some peppermint shrimps, or but a copperbanded butterfly, bye bye aiptasia

 

[straightjiggy10]

First you need to do research make sure you have aptasia and not majanos

 

[johnvic]

I tried aiptasia-x for a while but they would come back. I got 3 peppermint shrimps in 34 gal. and have not seen any for over a month.

 

[reefs4life]

Check out this website for peppermint shrimp http://ccritters.com/catalog/i62.html priority shipping is just $14 and even though it takes 2-3 days everything will come in fine. I ordered some stuff last week, like seahorses, hermit crabs and gorgs and when they got here the heat packs and water were still nice and warm. Good luck

 

[Awibrandy]

Do the research. As already stated above you must be sure it's aiptasia, and not mojanos. Also, all of the above recomendations are hit or miss. What works for 1 doesn't always work for the next person.
As to peppermint shrimps you need to make sure you don't have fish that will eat them, and they don't always work out either. I placed peppermint shrimps in my reef, and they did nothing. I also put a CB fish in, and it also did nothing. I finally got rid of the 2 aiptasias with the syringe, and white vinegar which cost me all of $1.59 for the bottle which I use for cooking anyway.

You still haven't answered my question. How many of these buggers do you have?

 

[pdnyc69]

+1 on peppermints. get 10 of them

 

[Dre]

Do the research. As already stated above you must be sure it's aiptasia, and not mojanos. Also, all of the above recomendations are hit or miss. What works for 1 doesn't always work for the next person.
As to peppermint shrimps you need to make sure you don't have fish that will eat them, and they don't always work out either. I placed peppermint shrimps in my reef, and they did nothing. I also put a CB fish in, and it also did nothing. I finally got rid of the 2 aiptasias with the syringe, and white vinegar which cost me all of $1.59 for the bottle which I use for cooking anyway.

You still haven't answered my question. How many of these buggers do you have?

You better lesson to Awibrandy on this one.....

 

[tosiek]

Instead of everyone posting what they think, he should be doing the research, and people should be posting links to what information on peppermints or any other process they are recommending. There are 100's of posts just like this one. Get the info from searching the forums on Aptasia Raffi, there will be ALOT more info on the pro's and cons to every method, and 100 more informative posts on other sites like reefcentral or another reef site. As well as what needs to be done. And yes you will have to look at 5+ different posts as a few of them went towards peppermints or aptasia X and so forth.

There are precautions to using peppermint shrimp, and aptasiaX and its results, and kalwasser nuking, and anything else. If he thought that aptasia were good coral then i think he needs WAAAY more info before trying any method. The only way to know enough to use something is to look and read and do the time learning. Using too much kalk paste can imbalance parameters, peppermints can go after other coral, aptasiaX can force the aptasia to release spores to spread the aptasia.....

As with anything you do, you should make informed descisions and know everything about all the choices before making a descision. These are living things, its an extremely complicated hobby, and there is too much invested to not do the legwork to know as much as possible about what you do to your tank.

Above all listen to Awilda, or there are worse consequences than having an aptasia ridden tank.....