Please help!!!!!!!! How do i get rid of aptasia
- Thread starter tecar
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- Location
- Forked River, New Jersey
you can remove the rock its on.. thats the easiest way.. you can get joes juice and inject it..use kalk paste.. or peppermint shrimp, certain types of wrasses i think will eat them also.. and theres a nudi that eats them too...
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Those nasty critters, I had them in my tank. I tried pulling them out with tweezers, wont work. Some people say injecting them with a needle with some sort of acid solution, didnt dare to try it. Some say there are some fish that eat them, no experience with that either. My aptasia went away when I had my tank crash, were half of the coral wiped out in just 24 hrs, thankfully the aptasia was the first one to died. Not a good solution either.
I think the best option is to let them be.
I think the best option is to let them be.
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
Give it to me! :lol2:
Dom..Diamonds of the Reef is looking for aptasia rocks, will give you clean rocks back, contact him EDIT...sorry I guess Dom types faster than me!
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- Location
- Montclair, NJ
:lol2:
- Location
- Chelsea, NYC
Dom, this is Tess who I introduced you to at the swap. She can trade u for clean rock if you have cause she is setting up the 20g anyway.
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
I know. I dont have any clean LIVE rock. Only dead. If she is willing to cycle it I have plenty of really nice pieces.
how long will it take to cycle
will the process go faster if i have dead and alive rock in my tank
because ill take some dead rock
there is really only 4 aptasia on the rock so its nothing special but there pretty big u can tots have it
will the process go faster if i have dead and alive rock in my tank
because ill take some dead rock
there is really only 4 aptasia on the rock so its nothing special but there pretty big u can tots have it
- Location
- New Jersey
get a copperband butterfly i have done twice it works just a shame that they died for noe eting after aptisia were gonr now i'm aptisia free for over a year good luk give it a try !!
- Location
- Chelsea, NYC
Her tank is not big enough for a copperband
- Location
- Chelsea, NYC
Tess, if you put dead rock in the new tank you will have a 3-6 week cycle...you will have to test till your parameters are correct.
- Location
- Jersey City NJ
aptaisa x worked well for me I had about 4 of those suckers and now I have none
Word.
- Location
- NJ
You could try joe's juice... Works pretty well
This i gonna sound crazy, but...if you can get the rock or coral or wherever the aptasia is OUT of the tank, just blast it with one of those long-necked barbeque or stove lighter things...100% kill rate in less than a minute, and it NEVER comes back. But that is only if you can get the rock out of the tank. They don't work under water
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