NEED HELP controling Anemonia

[One Stoned Coral]

I have had an outbreak of Anemonia (like Aiptasia). It all started on one rock and now it has spread all over the tank. I have a lot of Green star polyps, Leather corals and Musrooms rocks. I need to find some way of controling this without hurting my other SPS. I currently have 2 percula clowns. Is there a fish or a method that will kill these things? I also have one Coal banded shrimp. If you dont know what Anemonia is, it is a small mushroom looking anemone that has a brown base and green tenticles that have small bulbs at the end.
Thankyou

 

[ReefMon]

I've had great success with a Raccoon Butterfly, he's currently in a tank with SPS, leathers & shrooms and he's never even look at them. This tank was 90% overrun with Anemonia, 6 months later and there are none to be found.

I am getting ready to put him into my 180, it has some LPS and clams, so we will see if he's as good with them as the softies.

HTH
Glenn R

 

[Anonymous]

I have two peppermint shrimp in my 120 that keep them under control. If you want to try them, make sure you don't get similar-looking but evil camelback shrimp.

If you do a search on aiptasia you will find enough material to keep you busy for 2-3 days. Everyone has to deal with these at some point. Good hunting!

 

[Anonymous]

I used kalkwasser to irradicate both aiptasia and one A.mojano.

 

[AgentSPS]

Kalkwasser has never worked for me. Then again I only injected Aiptasia with it. Other options are boiling water and a large syringe (500 CC) with 13 gauge needle. Large syringe is key because you dont want the water in it to cool down before you can fry the anemones. A more sure bet is injecting muratic acid. You will only need a tiny bit per anemone but it will do the trick! Just do a few anemones at a time so you dont mess up your PH too much

The truth of the matter is that these things are like roaches. If you see one...you know the rest You need to use a joint strike tactics. Chemical weapons and biological weapons (shrimp, nudebranchs, crabs, etc)

 

[goldenboy]

FWIW, I put a peppermint shrimp in my 5 gal nano to eat my aptaisia and anemonia. he ate the few aptasia that were in the tank but never even touched the anemonia.

 

[One Stoned Coral]

I have purchased three peppermint shrimp and cannot tell if they have done anything. All they do is hide. I also tried a racoon butterfly but he only made it a few days. Is ther any thing else?
Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

i did the peppermint option and solved my problem save a few that were too large for them to handle. i tried the syringe thing and couldn't get them quick enough. i finally just threw some aquarium salt on them. seemed to work well.

you of course have to watch you don't fry your corals and your coraline algae and any other life in the immediate area is toast.

doesn't the copper banded butterfly eat these guys?

 

[dmm32]

peppermint shrimp and copperband butterflys work great, I keep 2 peppermints in both my tanks no aptaisia to be found. It takes peppermint
shrimp a while after being placed in the tank to start working on them, they are shy at first.


David

 

[Anonymous]

To destroy the anemonia and aiptasia I used a pipette filled with a thick kalk solution. So, instead of injecting it I put a thick paste over the whole anemone.

 

[Anonymous]

Your pepperment shrimp, if they are like mine, will develop a taste for your zoanthids and eat all of those.

 

[danmhippo]

I have purchased three peppermint shrimp and cannot tell if they have done anything. All they do is hide. I also tried a racoon butterfly but he only made it a few days. Is ther any thing else?
Thanks

Yes, there are. Take the rock out and scrub them clean. Repeat if necessary