Aiptasia on a Trochus' shell

[tbell]

I just discovered my first aiptasia anenome...PANIC! There seem to be no shortage of ideas about how to destroy these pests...but the source of my infestation is mobile. I've got a new Trochus snail with one growing out of a patch of coraline on its shell. Kind of pretty, but I don't want him traveling around the tank spreading these things everywhere.

How do you kill an aiptasia riding around on a living snail?

 

[Anonymous]

We need a better, closer picture, but I'm not so sure that's Aiptasia sp.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[tbell]

Really? That would obviously be great news...

Here's a couple more closer pics of the animal on the Trochus' shell, I'm not sure if they're really much better.

I'll also include a pic of the "aiptasia" on the sand that I'm attributing to the Trochus' hitchhiker. I guess I'm not even really sure that it's the same animal, either.

What do you think? Aiptasia, or something desirable?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Anonymous]

I'd make that trochus a yard pet.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah I would have to go for the old yeller route.

 

[Ben1]

I would just kalkpaste it.

 

[Anonymous]

I would just kalkpaste it.

Just like old yeller. :lol:

 

[Newbler]

Superglue gell it in?

 

[Anonymous]

Just scrape it off.

 

[Anonymous]

The throchus would likely be ok if you took it out of the water for as long as it takes to inject the kalk paste into the aiptasia.

 

[Anonymous]

Don't use kalk. There are some filter-feeding worm on the same snail, like a feather fan.

I would just take the snail out, and use a old tooth brush to brush the area where the A. used to be, and run some water to wash the cells away.

 

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't it be fine if you just were careful to only inject the aiptasia? or would the kalk run everywhere? I always used to use quite a viscous kalk solution and I can't see that running all the way round the shell to where the mini feather duster is...