Please say this isn't Aiptasia

GT350pwns · 02/27/2014, 06:21 PM

First saw this about a week ago and thought it was a fan worm. Well, it had disappeared since then and just now popped back out of the rock and it definitely isn't a fan worm. Hoping you all can tell me that it isn't aiptasia. Couldn't get a real good zoom on it because the camera wouldn't focus at all past a certain point.

dwolson2 · 02/27/2014, 06:27 PM

Looks like it, hard to tell from the pictures. Might be a majano too. but looks more like aptasia

AZBigJohn · 02/27/2014, 06:33 PM

Looks a lot like aptasia. I recently had my own battle, and cannot say enough about Aptasia X. Worked just as stated. One treatment, and the aptasia is dead. May have to treat the same area more than once, as once you kill the "big" one, the littler ones start poking up, but eventually they are all gone.

dwolson2 · 02/27/2014, 06:37 PM

You should kill it quickly, before it multiplies!

GT350pwns · 02/27/2014, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dwolson2

Looks like it, hard to tell from the pictures. Might be a majano too. but looks more like aptasia

so a pest either way? greeaaaat.

Thing has some reach to it. Looks like it is rooted underneath the rock and the sucker is stretched right on around the edge of it.

ravenstone · 02/27/2014, 06:46 PM

Definitely looks like Aptasia to me.

dwolson2 · 02/27/2014, 06:47 PM

Just get aptasia x, put it in the mouth of the aptasia, and inject the aptasia x. So hard to put that in a way that doesn't come off inappropriate....

AZBigJohn · 02/27/2014, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by GT350pwns

so a pest either way? greeaaaat.

Thing has some reach to it. Looks like it is rooted underneath the rock and the sucker is stretched right on around the edge of it.

That's why I liked Aptasia X. You put the applicator up against a tentacle, the tentacle wraps around it and pulls it towards its mouth. You then push the plunger so the aptasia covers the mouth, it sucks it in, and implodes...

GT350pwns · 02/27/2014, 06:52 PM

hopefully it's the only one and it doesn't want to reproduce before I can treat it tomorrow (will unfortunately be over another 24 hrs before I'll be able to take care of the thing).

02/27/2014, 06:21 PM	#1
GT350pwns Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 600	Please say this isn't Aiptasia First saw this about a week ago and thought it was a fan worm. Well, it had disappeared since then and just now popped back out of the rock and it definitely isn't a fan worm. Hoping you all can tell me that it isn't aiptasia. Couldn't get a real good zoom on it because the camera wouldn't focus at all past a certain point.

02/27/2014, 06:27 PM	#2
dwolson2 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Rockledge Fl Posts: 1,348	Looks like it, hard to tell from the pictures. Might be a majano too. but looks more like aptasia __________________ 220 w/75 sump. 2 Kessil AP700s, 2- MP60, 2- MP40, 1-MP10(in sump/frag tank), Waveline DC 10000, Reef Octopus elite INT220, Radion G1(over sump/frag tank), Apex Wifi with a few extras Current Tank Info: 220 in progress

02/27/2014, 06:33 PM	#3
AZBigJohn Usually confused... Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 1,091	Looks a lot like aptasia. I recently had my own battle, and cannot say enough about Aptasia X. Worked just as stated. One treatment, and the aptasia is dead. May have to treat the same area more than once, as once you kill the "big" one, the littler ones start poking up, but eventually they are all gone. __________________ John Current Tank Info: Currently a 29 gallon all-in-one frag tank and a 210 gallon tank slowly becoming my dream system!

02/27/2014, 06:37 PM	#4
dwolson2 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Rockledge Fl Posts: 1,348	You should kill it quickly, before it multiplies! __________________ 220 w/75 sump. 2 Kessil AP700s, 2- MP60, 2- MP40, 1-MP10(in sump/frag tank), Waveline DC 10000, Reef Octopus elite INT220, Radion G1(over sump/frag tank), Apex Wifi with a few extras Current Tank Info: 220 in progress

02/27/2014, 06:47 PM	#7
dwolson2 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Rockledge Fl Posts: 1,348	Just get aptasia x, put it in the mouth of the aptasia, and inject the aptasia x. So hard to put that in a way that doesn't come off inappropriate.... __________________ 220 w/75 sump. 2 Kessil AP700s, 2- MP60, 2- MP40, 1-MP10(in sump/frag tank), Waveline DC 10000, Reef Octopus elite INT220, Radion G1(over sump/frag tank), Apex Wifi with a few extras Current Tank Info: 220 in progress

02/27/2014, 06:46 PM	#6
ravenstone Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Michigan Posts: 53	Definitely looks like Aptasia to me.

02/27/2014, 06:52 PM	#9
GT350pwns Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 600	hopefully it's the only one and it doesn't want to reproduce before I can treat it tomorrow (will unfortunately be over another 24 hrs before I'll be able to take care of the thing).