Joe's Juice

[rickjames]

After trying a couple of ways to get rid of my one aptasia (vinegar injection, kalk slurry, etc) and being tired of watching the bast**d flourish and grow, I picked up a bottle of Joe's Juice to try out. I squirted a shot onto the anemone and like a puff of smoke it instantly dissolved into mush! It has been about 3 days with no sign of any grow back.

Overall I would recommend this stuff to anyone who wants to nuke an aptasia! Works like a charm.

[G1GY]

Boiling water in a hypodermic syringe works great also! :biggrin:

[IslandReefer]

And for total eradication; a clean up crew of a couple of Peppermint shrimp........I always seem to miss one with the Joe's :rolleyes: .......next thing you know they are back in force.
Joe's works , for me, best on the larger more visible and accesssible aptaisa, but since they are so tenatious,( just a few petal cells are needed to grow more) I find you need something to get the ones you don't see or kill every cell....and Peppermints tend to like the small tender ones anyway :smile: .

[rickjames]

Boiling water in a hypodermic syringe works great also! :biggrin:

If you are fast enough! :smile:

I have a peppermint shrimp, I think this aptasia scared him, because he never touched it! :lol:

[Willow]

i wonder if joes works on xenia.

[Griffin]

My girlfriend will kill you if you harm any xenia - she will come out and take it from you if any danger is threatend. She has a small tank that i got her started on (it actually helped in the "how much was that" zone - now she is addicted :lol: ) but she wants everything that people think are pests - go figure

Rich

[Aquattro]

but she wants everything that people think are pests - go figure

Rich

Hey, I have these really nice Isopods she can have!!

[rickjames]

My girlfriend will kill you if you harm any xenia -
Rich

I hear ya on this one, I get crap everytime I pull out some pink macro algae I have growing in my tank, and I think I mentioned once about pruning the xenia and I got crap again! So I didn't tell her when I pulled some xenia out this weekend! :smile:

[StirCrazy]

My girlfriend will kill you if you harm any xenia - she will come out and take it from you if any danger is threatend. She has a small tank that i got her started on (it actually helped in the "how much was that" zone - now she is addicted :lol: ) but she wants everything that people think are pests - go figure

Rich

don't tell her I am taking a propane torch to some pretty soon :evil:

Steve

[Griffin]

Damn -- she read the post and wants to travel to victoria - take your xenia and slap your faces for even thinking about doing that stuff :evil:

you guys are on your own - can't protect you --- sorry :cool:

[Aquattro]

What she doesn't realize is that a propane torch won't do a thing to xenia. The stuff is indestructible!!

[Corey]

Joes Juice seems to work well on aiptasia, Im curious if it would work on button polyps.

[cc_bruno]

Boiling water has always worked for me, (although, I do three successive shots to make sure that it's dead :biggrin: ). On the flip side, I can't keep xenia to save my life, go figure :confused: .

Robert

[Macross]

Joe's juice is awesome, but watch out for killing other stuff. While I was killing some aptaisia, I accidently plunged too much at once because the monoject syringe got clogged. I ended up killing a nearby patch of green star polyp. Anybody kill anything else?