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07/10/2009, 09:00 PM
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killing on aiptasia on coral
I just noticed i have 2-3 very small aiptasia anemones growing on some candy cane coral. It's not on the soft, polyp part, but on the hard, exposed area of the coral. I've heard an easy way of killing these pests is to squirt near boiling water at/ in them, but if I do this is there any chance of damaging the coral it's on? If so, what's another way of killing the aiptasia?
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07/10/2009, 09:12 PM
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Cover them with a paste made of RO water and Kalkwasser (or pickling lime).
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07/10/2009, 10:32 PM
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Get a hypodermic needle from the drug store. Fill it with lemon juice and inject the juice into the base of the aiptasia.
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07/10/2009, 10:54 PM
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Aiptasia-X great stuff...
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07/10/2009, 11:08 PM
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I recently used joes juice, killed them instantly but I'm not sure if it would hurt the candy cane.
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07/11/2009, 12:33 AM
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Joes Juice... I have used it a 1000 times over the years. It killed the Aiptasia, but never hurt the coral. AND...yep, I have have some on a colony of candy canes
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