ID these?

carevin · 06/27/2014, 08:41 PM

So to jump start my tank I dumped the dry rock I had. Went to my local store and got some live rock for my tank. I see a number of things moving now. Can you all help let me know what I need to do. I want to limit pests in the tank and now is the time for me to take action while it's new. Sorry Images are much bigger than I thought, took them on my phone.

It's like a mini star fish. Except it has much longer arms, 5 of them, whitish,brown/red stripes sort of. Keep or take out?
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Not sure what this is. Good or Bad?
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jrozzi · 06/27/2014, 08:46 PM

1- brittle starfish - good

2 & 3 - aiptasia - bad

carevin · 06/27/2014, 08:49 PM

Brittle starfish good or bad? Aiptasia is bad right. Should I just not use this rock then? Seems to be quite a few on it.

jrozzi · 06/27/2014, 08:54 PM

yeah starfish is good.

aiptasia is bad ive never had any but I hear there's things you can buy that eat them, and there's things you can buy that will kill them off like aiptasia X I think. I'm sure there's all kind of info on the net about good ways to get rid of them.

No need to get rid of the rock imo, unless everything else fails.

mluntz · 06/28/2014, 08:22 AM

I had one aptasia one time. I took a pipette of lemon juice and shot in right into the middle of it. Haven't seen any of it since.

dmh41532 · 06/28/2014, 06:06 PM

lemon juice, hot water and commercial poisions injected into the anemone all will work, I've found a glob of super glue gel over it works the best.

06/27/2014, 08:41 PM	#1
carevin Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 23	ID these? So to jump start my tank I dumped the dry rock I had. Went to my local store and got some live rock for my tank. I see a number of things moving now. Can you all help let me know what I need to do. I want to limit pests in the tank and now is the time for me to take action while it's new. Sorry Images are much bigger than I thought, took them on my phone. It's like a mini star fish. Except it has much longer arms, 5 of them, whitish,brown/red stripes sort of. Keep or take out? [IMG]http://i58.*****.com/2v30w76.jpg[/IMG] Not sure what this is. Good or Bad? [IMG]http://i62.***.com/2yyp2cz.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i57.*****.com/15avch.jpg[/IMG]

06/28/2014, 08:22 AM	#5
mluntz Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Millersville, Md. Posts: 727	I had one aptasia one time. I took a pipette of lemon juice and shot in right into the middle of it. Haven't seen any of it since. __________________ 46 Gallon Bowfront, (1)Ocellaris Clownfish, (1)Carpenter wrasse, (1)Coral Beauty, (1)Kole Tang

06/27/2014, 08:46 PM	#2
jrozzi Moved On Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 580	1- brittle starfish - good 2 & 3 - aiptasia - bad

06/27/2014, 08:49 PM	#3
carevin Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 23	Brittle starfish good or bad? Aiptasia is bad right. Should I just not use this rock then? Seems to be quite a few on it.

06/27/2014, 08:54 PM	#4
jrozzi Moved On Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 580	yeah starfish is good. aiptasia is bad ive never had any but I hear there's things you can buy that eat them, and there's things you can buy that will kill them off like aiptasia X I think. I'm sure there's all kind of info on the net about good ways to get rid of them. No need to get rid of the rock imo, unless everything else fails.

06/28/2014, 06:06 PM	#6
dmh41532 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Bellefontaine Ohio Posts: 771	lemon juice, hot water and commercial poisions injected into the anemone all will work, I've found a glob of super glue gel over it works the best.