Aiptasia?

Query · 07/29/2011, 06:40 PM

Is this aiptasia? It's really hard for me to tell.

papagimp · 07/29/2011, 06:41 PM

little difficult because the angle, but it looks like one to me.

Lynnmw1208 · 07/29/2011, 06:43 PM

yes. get some joe's juice, lemon juice, make kalk paste, or other type of aiptasia killer. Be sure to use a syringe to shoot it in the mouth. or you could get a peppermint shrimp to eat it, but I don't recommend if you have LPS corals as mine started eating my hammer.

Query · 07/29/2011, 07:07 PM

The first picture here is a different angle. The second picture is of something else on the same rock. It looks different to me, but I don't know if it's bad or not.

cloak · 07/29/2011, 08:04 PM

It's the same thing IMO. It looks as if a hermit or a snail brushed up against it and it closed up.

LAKEM0NSTER · 07/29/2011, 08:08 PM

o yea that's aiptasia. Like Lynn said, get a syringe & some magic juice & shoot it in the mouth. They reproduce fast & if you try scraping them off, they'll regenerate if you don't get every last bit of the animal off.

cloak · 07/29/2011, 08:13 PM

You can also smother them with some epoxy.

skyline377 · 07/29/2011, 08:37 PM

when in doubt. Just get rid of it

Query · 07/29/2011, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cloak

It's the same thing IMO. It looks as if a hermit or a snail brushed up against it and it closed up.

It has maintained the same appearance all day, but it's hard to see in the pictures. It has thicker "arms" and a shorter "trunk", but I think just getting rid of it (or at least, trying to) is good advice.

Ron Reefman · 07/30/2011, 06:11 AM

Get rid of it. Do it now. They spread, and the next one may be behind a rock, you won't see it and it will keep populating the tank over, and over , and over...

raylost · 07/30/2011, 06:35 AM

I got five pepermint shimp and they eat it all the aiptasia, I havent, seen one for weeks, but the pepermint are starting to attack my corals so I'm in the proccess of remove all of them and put it in my sump, I already catch one four to go!

canrio · 07/30/2011, 07:08 AM

I didn't realize peperment shrimp ate LPS? I've had on in my tank for months with no problems, of course I feed it a small piece of silverside twice a week.

Diva · 07/30/2011, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by canrio

I didn't realize peperment shrimp ate LPS? I've had on in my tank for months with no problems, of course I feed it a small piece of silverside twice a week.

Aiptasia is an anemone of sorts and not a coral.

Query · 07/30/2011, 07:40 PM

It seems my Chocolate Chip Star is taking care of the problem... Wouldn't surprise me; he eats everything else.

07/29/2011, 06:41 PM	#2
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	little difficult because the angle, but it looks like one to me. __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

07/29/2011, 06:43 PM	#3
Lynnmw1208 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Brunswick, Ohio Posts: 3,306	yes. get some joe's juice, lemon juice, make kalk paste, or other type of aiptasia killer. Be sure to use a syringe to shoot it in the mouth. or you could get a peppermint shrimp to eat it, but I don't recommend if you have LPS corals as mine started eating my hammer. __________________ equipment: Eshopps psk-200 skimmer, Mag 12 pump, 30gal sump, 2x 300w Finnex heaters, glass-holes 1500gph overflow kit with 3/4" return kits, 72" 8x36w t-5 AquaticLife light, 66lbs of LR, 150lbs of tropic eden reeflakes, 2 Koralia Evo 1400, JBJ ATO, BRS dual GFO/carbon reactors, Hydor smartwave Current Tank Info: 125gallon

07/30/2011, 06:11 AM	#10
Ron Reefman Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Cape Coral, FL Posts: 10,431	Get rid of it. Do it now. They spread, and the next one may be behind a rock, you won't see it and it will keep populating the tank over, and over , and over... __________________ The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. (Neil deGrasse Tyson) Visit my build thread http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2593017

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07/29/2011, 08:04 PM	#5
cloak Moved On Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Stockton, CA Posts: 14,854	It's the same thing IMO. It looks as if a hermit or a snail brushed up against it and it closed up.

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LAKEM0NSTER Registered Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Bloomington, IN Posts: 160	o yea that's aiptasia. Like Lynn said, get a syringe & some magic juice & shoot it in the mouth. They reproduce fast & if you try scraping them off, they'll regenerate if you don't get every last bit of the animal off.

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cloak Moved On Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Stockton, CA Posts: 14,854	You can also smother them with some epoxy.

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skyline377 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Daly City Posts: 264	when in doubt. Just get rid of it

07/30/2011, 06:35 AM	#11
raylost Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: San Juan, PR Posts: 279	I got five pepermint shimp and they eat it all the aiptasia, I havent, seen one for weeks, but the pepermint are starting to attack my corals so I'm in the proccess of remove all of them and put it in my sump, I already catch one four to go!

07/30/2011, 07:08 AM	#12
canrio Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Alton, Illinois Posts: 87	I didn't realize peperment shrimp ate LPS? I've had on in my tank for months with no problems, of course I feed it a small piece of silverside twice a week.

07/30/2011, 07:40 PM	#14
Query Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: WI Posts: 31	It seems my Chocolate Chip Star is taking care of the problem... Wouldn't surprise me; he eats everything else.