ID help?

[sharij1]

I know this isnt a good picture, but just noticed this on my rock. Any ideas?

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[picoreefguy]

looks like red slime algae.

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[sharij1]

I think it may be a bit of apastia. it retracts when touched. just doesnt look like apastia ive had before.

 

[picoreefguy]

ohhh you're talking about the blob in the center i didnt even see that. it looks more like a majano nem then aptasia but its hard to tell try looking up majanos and see if it looks like that when open. but either way i would probably kill it before it spreads.

 

[sharij1]

I have apastiax for apastia. can i use it for majano?

 

[cshack5405]

I'm pretty sure it's aptasia I would just get one or two peppermint shrimp those aptasia chemicals always seem to make it spread like crazy. So I've heard but I had it and got two peppermint shrimps and within three days it was all gone. I only had two single ones in my tank though.

 

[sharij1]

ive got two idot peppermint shrimp in this tank (29gallon) that wont touch apastia....buggers.

 

[cshack5405]

Lol yea mine didn't do anything in my 29 biocube for like a week and then it was just gone lol they are weird. Maybe don't feed them for a day then check the next day I bet it'll be gone lol that's exactly what I did

 

[picoreefguy]

aptasia x should work on it whatever it is. but like cshack said you would be better off with a good peppermint. although ive never had aptasia spread faster because of using aptsia x or something similar it dosent prevent more from popping up where the peppermints just keep eating any that do pop up

 

[thrasher]

I had 2 of those lil pests a few years back. I'd hit them with a syringe of lemon juice or boiling water. They would shrivel & shrink down to almost nothing. It would seem to do the trick but a few weeks later they would start to grow again. One day I had an idea &#55357;&#56481;I hit them with the boiling water then put on a tiny pinkie fingernail sized bit of the epoxy I used to affix my live rock. It worked great, never saw them again.

 

[picoreefguy]

thrasher;866841 wrote: I had 2 of those lil pests a few years back. I'd hit them with a syringe of lemon juice or boiling water. They would shrivel & shrink down to almost nothing. It would seem to do the trick but a few weeks later they would start to grow again. One day I had an idea &#65533;&#65533;I hit them with the boiling water then put on a tiny pinkie fingernail sized bit of the epoxy I used to affix my live rock. It worked great, never saw them again.

+1 ive used superglue to do the same thing and you dont even have to hit them with any chemicals or boiling water just get em to shrink up and cover the hole that they're in and presto chango no more pest