The dreaded beast?

[Anonymous]

Aptasia, right? (the smaller disk, in the middle.) 'Was over a friends house and a lot of his coral are "burned", and he didn't know why. Sorry about the picture, it's a fuzzy pic because I took it with my cheesy phone.

So, let's hear your best means of extermination!

~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

A propane lighter.

 

[Anonymous]

A propane lighter.

I saw you wrote that somewhere else too... it works? I guess you just torch the spot, and that's it, huh?

~wings~

 

[ricky1414]

A propane lighter.

Seriously?

 

[Anonymous]

Yes, seriously. Flames work real good at killing things. Boiling water and kalk paste don't, or at least don't always work all the way all the time. All it takes is a few cells to regenerate a new anemone in a few months.

 

[Bojangles]

A propane lighter.

Doesn't that jack up yer water?

 

[Anonymous]

:lol:. You pull the rock out of the water to do it.

I just did it to a large rock last week with tons of Aiptasia. The rock also had a large brain coral growing on it, several mushrooms, and some zoanthids. It also had a majano anemone on it. I removed the majano, torched the spot it was on, and torched all Aiptasia in about 5 minutes. All the other life on the rock, save the coralline and feather dusters in the vicinity of the Aiptasia, is just fine.

 

[Anonymous]

Matt, do you think my set of Acetylene torches will do?

 

[Anonymous]

:lol: Those should work Bry. I even used my gas stove once when I was hard up for a light.

 

[Anonymous]

When I was smoking I lit one with an electric stove a couple of times

Talk about an addiction

 

[HClH2OFish]

When I was smoking I lit one with an electric stove a couple of times

Talk about an addiction

:lol: :lol: I'm soooo glad I'm not the only one to do this! Got your face pretty warm didn't it? :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I am glad I quit!

 

[Anonymous]

Any wuss can be a quitter...it takes a real man to face terminal cancer

hehe im just sour because i seem to keep getting packs every onc ein a while :-(

 

[SnowManSnow]

I see the shrooms.. but I'm not sure that thing in the middle is a "dreaded anemone"

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I don't have a clearer picture, but it is.

~wings~

 

[Anonymous]

Kill it. Kill it dead.

A friend of mine has aiptasia all over his tank, got about 150 pounds of live rock thats just covered, so I promoted Matts method of using a torch to kill it all. I will let you know how it goes, should take him a few weeks to track em all down and nuke em.

Poor guy, but that is what happens if you let it get outta control.

Kill em! Kill em dead!!

 

[Anonymous]

Yes, please let us know how it goes.

What really helps is to take a detailed pic of the rock right before you torch it. Those anemones are difficult to spot once you pull the rock out of the water, and some of them pull into a hole so you can't even see them anymore. Take a pic and view it while torching, or draw a little detailed map of the rock with a crayon on a napkin. I do the latter