aiptasia is taking over my tank

[mcgyvr]

Originally Posted by GilliganReef

I had an issue with aptasia, I tried all the injection things, aptasia x, lemon juice you name it nothing worked. I purchased 3 peppermint shrimp even though my LFS said it wouldn’t work. Now month later I see none in my tank. Even the large ones are gone.

yep.. mine seemed to LOVE joes juice/kalk paste/lemon juice,etc..
I think I once heard one say.. "Give me more please"..

Then the filefish came into the tank and I could hear the aiptasia scream from across the road

[coryhupfer]

well i went to the lfs and they sold the matted filefish they had.so i got a flame hawkfish instead lol.and ordered a matted filefish off of live aquaria.i actually have been treating the aiptasia with a very tiny tipped plastic syringe so its really accurate and i can shoot it right in the aiptasias mouth but a legit one i could punture them with would probably work better as stated in the previous comment but i have been treating it about an hour or so before i do water changes and i try to siphon out everything when i take the water out thanks for all the help hopefully the filefish helps

[johnike]

I also have one of these (Thanks PaulB).
When this thing is in my hands, my name is death.
http://majanowand.com/

[coryhupfer]

if things dont work out that looks like it would solve the problem thanks johnike

[goncharkina]

I personally bought a Copperband Butterfly and she demolished aptisia within days! It is a hard fish to keep, but she is one of the best aptisia preditors

[NaasReefer]

I had one aptasia in my 120gal, got worried that it would spread so I got 4 pepermint shrimp, next morning the aptasia was gone and haven't seen any since

[coryhupfer]

i would get the butterfly but ide rather not take the chance of my corals getting picked at.and i think my angler would eat those pep shrimp right up.thanks for the input could turn to those options if nothing else works out