Aptasia

[ohioreef]

Any thoughts on how to get rid of aptasia? I've got a pretty good outbreak going on.


Thanks,

Gary

[AJ]

A Copperband Butterfly might do the trick.  Or some peppermint shrimp.  You could always make a nice mix of Kalkwasser and "feed" the aptasia.  I believe we (the club) has a majano wand which should also work for killing aptasia.

[wrassel]

I might have gotten lucky but 2 peppermint shrimp wiped mine out in no time. I haven't had any in almost a year.

[Steve]

With a 29 gal I would go with some peppermint shrimp, to small for a copperband.

[soldiers4christ50]

I agree Steve. I had great luck with the peppermint shrimp

[ohioreef]

I have some pickling lime so I'll try that and look into a couple peppermints. Thanks!!

[CoralBeauties]

I make up a pickling lime paste and use a syringe and dribble it into their mouth area.  Turn off your water currents.  I have found that they usually come back but mostly as babies.  That is when the peppermint shrimp do their job.
Jeff

[Humphrey]

I've had luck with peppermint shrimp too.  They're nice because they'll eat other stuff when the anenomes are gone.

[ohioreef]

I hit them with some kalk tonight, but I made it too runny. Hopefully I didn't do too much collateral damage.

[Steve]

I hit them with some kalk tonight, but I made it too runny. Hopefully I didn't do too much collateral damage.

Just a thought, will the kalk in a small system effect your PH and such?

[ohioreef]

Just a thought, will the kalk in a small system effect your PH and such?

Everything appears to be doing ok so it must not have affected it too much.