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[Reptoreef]

Hola all... tulip anemones are ok so long as controlled. These little buggers can reak havock if not controlled. I finally got my copperband trained to keep at 'em and crop them well.

[Reef_Angel]

I'd love to say "nifty" right now, but I desperately need two copperbands for massive aiptasia...one for each 45g tank. The copperbands are going to eat my new little tulip friends that Whoyah sent to me?? I can't get a handle on it no matter how much of the crap I kill. You know, I will kill everything I see with kalk paste, and the next day, I have a whole new crop of the aiptasia. When we had the 180g up, we never had any problem with aiptasia. If I ever found one, I nuked it and that was the end of it. Help!! I know that the peppermint shrimp will help me out, but will they eat my tulips too? I just can't risk my ponies lives with aiptasia all over. I lifted up a neat piece of barnacle that sits in the middle of the tank with little pieces of tonga branches coming out of the hole for my Seahorses to hitch on. It's an awsome centerpiece. I lifted it up because I dropped a tulip anemone down behind it and literally found a FIELD OF AIPASIA underneath! Tell me this, when Joe's Juice is applied, does it leave residue behind giving that "I just killed an aiptasia" look spotted all over the tank. I'm real desperate here. I actually boiled off the rocks in the tank with the tangs in it, but now the aiptasia is returning there too. How can such a supposedly simple problem be so devastating? I'm so confused.
...Angel :angel1: in need of your help!!

[jojo22]

I don't know with the amount you have I had a few and just used boiled water without any obvious appearence of doing so.

[mickey57]

.....Angel,
......I did see the thread about the little Tulip anemones'.If you have any bubble tip anemones'...(these are all I can speak of with experience),get rid of those Tulips I had two that turned into four within a month..Thought they were so pretty and what a nice addition to my reef tank.........The two daughters seeked out a large bubble tip that was inbetween two tall rocks...........From above the bubble tip,one tulp on each side attacked,and before I noticed,they put a whoppin on that bubble tip....:o
.........On the aptasia..........My erectus tank was infested.......tried the belguia nudies.No relief there Put 10 of those nudies in that tank,never to be seen again.....Caught the peppermints on sale for $2ea. @saltwaterfish.com,I bought 30.Put 5 in each of my running tanks at the time..............Problems gone...Die you little aptasia devils:D
..............Mickey

[Reef_Angel]

Hey Joe, thanks for the boiling water idea. What did you do, just baster the hot water on the aiptasia? I've literally held an area of a rock under hot tap water, and the thing kept clinging to the rock. I'm not sure if it would have died out on it's own. I removed that one off and used a toothbrush with kalk on there area where I tried to scorch it off. Is the idea you're suggesting done right in the tank with a baster or something like it? I will be working for hours on end. A little more info would be helpful.

Mickey....I'll give the peppermints a try, and I'm also going to add a copperband butterfly to both tanks. I didn't have any aiptasia until I got some frags from another reefer. I killed everything I saw on the frags, but I think that once they "burst", that's how they literally seed a tank with their awful little presence throughout the tank. That's the only way I can think of that they keep coming back in bigger quantities. I killed ONE on my pagoda cup, and the next day there were 6 new ones (babies). They grow huge, fast! I've never been so frustrated with a problem child in any one of my tanks!

Thanks all for your comments and helpful hints! ....Angel :angel1:

[mickey57]

I'm also going to add a copperband butterfly to both tanks.
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...I forgot.........I killed two of the copperbands Expensive and very touchy critters:o
.......Mickey

[lReef lKeeper]

my copperband is about 1 yr old now and never any problem with him. he is a real trooper !! and if i see an aiptasia one day, the next day he has already eatin it !!

[seahorsedreams]

Make sure you don't get the Australian variety..... they don't eat appys. We had one for 5 years.

[jojo22]

Angel,

All I did was boil water and place it in a small syringe that I use to feed baby birds. I then reached in the tank point and squeeze. Don't pull squeeze (ok that was a little army humor for anyone thats been thruogh basic training they will remember that) The little suckers will shrivel right up and never be seen again. In a case like yours I would nuke a few and then wait to make sure you don't introduce too much hot water and change your temp. A small syringe may also help as it would hold far less water to radiate the heat into your tank. I could mail you one if you would like they are very easy for me to come by. If you want to get your own I use the 3cc size, it could nuke a lot of appies and not enough water to hurt. You will know they are dead because they will shrivel up and in my case they instantly turned white. I like this method because if you do it before a top off you run no chance of introduceing anythig "abnormal" to your tank.

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