ID Help Please - Is this a problem creature?

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Hey everyone, I would appreciate some help ID'ing a hitch hiker that I found last week. Approx. two weeks ago, I bought a pearl bubble coral that came on a small piece of live rock.

The coral has done great, but after close inspection, I noticed three green aipatasia-looking creatures on the back of the rock. They are small, have not spread, but look too much like aipatasia from me to be comfortable with them. I have a small army of peppermint shrimp in this tank, but they do not seem to touch these things.

Here is a pic, let me know what you guys think these things are and if they are a problem:

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ricksconnected;497070 wrote: i have a small rock that had the same thing on it.
i tried aptasiaX on it. killed them dead.


I am picking up some aptasia X tomorrow and plan on eradicating them as soon as possible... as far as the pickling lime goes, how do I make that concoction? I want these things gone by tomorrow.

Just a through, what if I just dumped some epoxy or super glue jel on them? would that not kill them off?
 
Kalk paste= Mrs. Wages Picking Lime (bought at a few grocery stores around town) & water. you want the consistency to be like wasabi sauce.
 
The Mojano have been eradicated... I picked up some Aiptasia Control earlier in the week and went to work.

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I turned off the power heads, mixed up a batch of the stuff, and went to town... I put the syringe right over the mojano and watched the stuff fill them up. After a few minutes, it was nothing but a blob of whit goo.

Here is before:
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Here is 48 hours after treatment
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I appreciate everyone's feedback! Hopefully this will be the end of them :thumbs:
 
I took a turkey baster full of boiling water and "spot fed" some yesterday, i will let you know if it worked or not in a couple weeks..
 
Based on my one-and-only Majano experience, that thing may well come back. I "killed" one with kalk paste no less than five times. Each time, within a week, it had recovered and looked healthy as can be. I finally kalked it, then stuffed epoxy in the hole it was rooted in, to sort of entomb it. That worked. Thus, my hand grenade comment. Kalk isn't strong enough to kill them reliably IMO.

I have no doubt that the stronger lime/water/lye mix would have killed it, but at the time I didn't yet have the recipe.
 
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