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i just got some new LR and there are some aiptasia and possibly a tiny mojano on hte rock.


what's the easiest way to kill them?? i bought these rocks for their colors not just their shapes, so letting them dry out is something i'm trying to avoid.
 
I think easiest would be peppermint shrimps if you have some patience and starve them a bit.
 
Boiling water and a syringe. Peps for insurance that the little guys don't come back
 
Lemon juice.. Try and dig them out with some needle nose pliers and then squirt a large amount of lemon juice where they were and let it sit for about 10 minutes..

Worked for the very few I have ever had..
 
when you used lemon juice, how much did you use??


so what i should do is turn off my entire system so theres no flow and take tweezers, and pull them out, and squirt lemon juice in the holes they came out of?
 
I took the rock out of the tank to do it.. I used good bit of lemon juice so it would seep down into the rock where the base of it was in case I missed some of it..
 
The napalm will work for the majano, but spot treatment for aiptasia control is nearly impossible. If you have full grown aiptasia on some rocks, you undoubtedly have small ones, even on the underside of the rocks where you can't see.

Napalm and peppermints controlled my severe problem with aiptasia when every thing else fell short.
 
Beware this guy will eat nice feather dusters!
reefracer;485619 wrote: I heard that some file fish eat majano, so I looked around and found this little guy at Blue Zoo for $19.95 "Aiptasia Eating Filefish" Acreichthys tomentosus. Said to be reef safe "with caution" which usually means don't do it. So far I haven't seen him bother any majano, but then he hasn't bothered any corals either. He just floats around slowly with his eyes rolling around different directions, cutest little guy I just love him! He might be a real terror on aiptasia I don't know. If he gets out of line with the corals I shall banish him to the isolation tank, Good luck!
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Robb, those were the names of the two atomic bombs developed and dropped in WWII.

Also, I second the vote on their use here. I would also paint "Enola Gay" on the side of the tank just to be safe.
 
My peppermints ate ALL aiptasia, big or little, and plenty of both. I used 1 peppermint per every 2.5 gallons of water volume (12 shrimp / 30 gal cube) and fed them nothing (clowns got a few flakes floated on top of the water every other day during the time frame of the eradication effort). It took about 3 1/2 weeks for them to clean up at least 100 (absolute minimum) aiptasia (20% to 30% adults).


It's really cool to watch them eat aiptasia. They start by slapping an individual tenticle of the anemone, and when the tentacle latches on</em>, it breaks off the end of the tenticle, eats it, then does it again. That it how it apparently starts, as I witnessed this many times in my tank. However, I never saw the actual oral disc of a large aiptasia being eaten, although I know they must have as all aiptasia are currently gone (sparing two small ones that haven't been noticed yet) with no signs any of the aiptasia left on the rock or sand bed.
 
cr500_af;485729 wrote: Robb, those were the names of the two atomic bombs developed and dropped in WWII.

Also, I second the vote on their use here. I would also paint "Enola Gay" on the side of the tank just to be safe.
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Yup.. I always remembered that for one reason, at around 8:15 the Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima because it was the same day as my birthday..Different year of course.
8/6/45
 
DrNecropolis;485793 wrote: Yup.. I always remembered that for one reason, at around 8:15 the Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima because it was the same day as my birthday..Different year of course.
8/6/45
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ah...your birthday is the same as my cousins and 2 days before mine....probably a different year as well.....mines '81

but anyways....yeah peppermints will usually do the job.....but sometimes they wont touch the larger ones....from time to time....so thats when kalk paste/lemon juice/pickling lime/and so on......basically...pick your poison....
 
BIGGQ00;485895 wrote: i heard that you have to get a specific species of the pep shrimp otherwise you would be waisting your time. if this is true do you know the species??
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Lysmata wurdemanni
 
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