.........aiptasia anenome...........

[juniorjose]

i just started a 30 long tank. the water has cleared up and i can see lots of live stuff on it. i even saw a couple of aiptasia on it and even were there is a couple of zoas attached to the rock. will it kill the zoa?...how do i remove it?

[wab]

I had luck with peppermint shrimp 2 in my 40 worked great. Good Luck

[Sisterlimonpot]

peppermint shrimp eats them or injecting boiling water, kalk paste into them will kill them as well.

[Goby-Wan Kenobi]

I make a kalk paste with ro water. And inject it with a marinade injector. Its real close to Joes Juice.

[juniorjose]

the aiptasia is right next to the zoa, adding the boiling water wont kill the zoa or the kalk paste?.....i dont want to see the zoa dead.....

[Sisterlimonpot]

Originally Posted by juniorjose

the aiptasia is right next to the zoa, adding the boiling water wont kill the zoa or the kalk paste?.....i dont want to see the zoa dead.....

I would try the boiling water first. the paste or joes juice because it can bleed over to the zoas

[juniorjose]

is the heat going to effect the zoa?...its so close to the zoa its almost attached.

[Chiefsurfer]

I would say yes, pretty much anything injected that will kill the aiptasia will also kill your zoas if they are that close. I do not know this from experience, but many people here have told me that boiling water or vinegar will leave a 2" ring of "death" around where you squirt it. I am sure this varies dependent on the amount of boiling solution injected, and at the rate it is injected. But if you are THAT concerned about the zoas, I would try the pepp first.

[Pcrain]

i use calcium hydroxide in high concentration and it kills them but it has to be hot when you mix it in high concentration it gets very hot and i don't know but it could kill a few zoas if your not accurate prob 1 tbs to a cup of H20

[quickgray02]

joe juice but be careful around the zoa

[Robby.F]

Just put in a pepperment shrimp you only need one and it should be gone in a week. worked for me!

[juniorjose]

well my tank is still cycling so i dont think i can add the shrimp....i just started it three days ago
.......i got a head of zoa when i bought the live rock...i think i might have to do boiling water and risk a few zoas.......

[Pcrain]

Just read the ingredients for Joes juice and it is just Water Calcium Hydroxide and Non-iodized salt, so in laymans terms it is just Kalkwasser (Lime water) and sea-salt. So I guess using kalkwasser alone won't affect your parameters any more than using joes juice will.


quote from http://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show....php?p=2470380 natclanwy

[juniorjose]

ill let u guys now....
....also do i have to leave the light on when the tank is cycling?....im leaving it on from 11:30am to 11:00pm for the zoa.....

[Chiefsurfer]

generally speaking, you can run a much lower cycle. Some people say NONE, but if you have something photosynthetic(zoa) and want to keep it alive, it may not grow much, but it will live in about 4 hours of light. That's what I am running right now while cycling my tank. 6 hours actinic, 4 hours daylight, with the actinic turning on 1 hr before daylight, and off 1 hr after.

[juniorjose]

O....this leads me to my other question about lighting....
right now i have it programmed 11:30 am on and 11:00p.m off......my program wont turn the actinic light one hour before, and one hour after ....
.....is it okay to turn both on at the same time everyday and off at the same time?

[MOB1224]

Originally Posted by juniorjose

i just started a 30 long tank. the water has cleared up and i can see lots of live stuff on it. i even saw a couple of aiptasia on it and even were there is a couple of zoas attached to the rock. will it kill the zoa?...how do i remove it?

I used a copper band butterfly 2 get rid of mine but I would not suggest that because the one I had ate all of the aiptasia then starved 2 death I couldnt get it 2 eat anything else

[Chiefsurfer]

if you cannot seperate your actinic and daylight bulbs, that is no problem.

[NCNBilly]

Turn off all your pumps and use AptaisX sparingly. If you are careful you can minimize the collateral damage to nearby zoos. This stuff is liquid in the syringe but gets thick when it hits the anemone and might just stay put. Let it go about 15 minutes, then carefully siphon it out.

[Dlhirst]

I started with one piece of LR, and was thrilled to see feather dusters sprouting from it. Of course, they turned out to be aiptasia.
My LFS suggested peppermint shrimp. And they shredded the aiptasia within hours. Two days later, I was worried about what they would find to eat. They seem to be happy fighting for scraps of the Rod's Food I have been feeding the fish. Cleaner shrimp loves it too!

[ecureefer]

some peppermints will eat them and some wont because they know they will be fed flake food i think ive heard the wild caught ones work the best

[blakemiller1981]

i used peppermint shrimpo but they keep dissapearing on me. gotta get 2 more as i still have one i can see so whoknows how many i havnt spotted yet

[burntchrisp]

I had some that were stinging my xenias and the LFS said to use super glue gel or epoxy putty. B/C the AptaisX will kill xenias so I glued a rock over one and it seems to have gotten rid of it. I plan to get some epoxy for anymore that show up.

[thompsontwins]

copper band butterfly work good

[Daimyo68]

Sorry to say, but your zoas might not make it anyways. They are resilient, and can survive some extremes, but you just started your tank a few days ago. Have you seen an ammonia or nitrite spike yet? after just 3 days, probably not, and it's possible that they may not make it through it.

If your looking to save the zoas, and want to be sure they survive, i would put that rock into a QT tank until your DT cycles. While in the QT tank, you could pick up a syringe, and inject the aiptasia directly with boiling water, and then, since it's so close to the zoas, get a firm toothbrush and scrub the area, and then rinse the rock in fresh saltwater (same temp as the QT tank). You don't want to leave any cells behind for the aiptasia to return with a fury, as well as mentioned about the ring of death. the cells spread fast, especially if there is current to carry them away.

The Peppermint shrimp are hit and miss. Last time i bought some, they never went near the aiptasia, but in other tanks in the past, they cleaned the tank of all of them.

Take care of that aiptasia now, this way you won't have to be worried about it/them later.