Aipetasia has reached plague conditions

[The Grizz]

NOPE!!! I will not deal with that jerk as long as I live. I would like to put him out of the SW business for good, but can't seem to find enough people interested in taking a 15 min drive out to my place if I was to set-up shop here.

[JaiWiz]

lol that seems to be the rumor with dan lol but i hear ya its to bad a store like that has alot of potential so why not start up your own outfit in red deer. i have thought long and hard about a business plan to do something like that i'm not all that serious i have other priorities right now but a well stocked shop with fresh and salt livestock and then all the foods and additives to go along with them and have a wall of snakes/lizards/ and other wier things and your prime

[The Grizz]

Just to set- up a decent SW shop alown is in the neighborhood of $40k. I would only do SW fish, coral, supplies and equipment, I already have a few suppliers that I can call on when needed.

[Rogue951]

Kalk paste and some persistance?
I don't have much in my tank but it seems to work quite well.
and it's nothing I'm not already putting, or need in my tank.

[JaiWiz]

so i just mix up this paste and what use a syringe to apply it on them or what

[Rogue951]

I make it just thick enough to flow through the syringe. ( I use a kent sea squirt) and squirt a small puddle onto the head and bury it when it retracts.
If you have as many as u say you probably want to throw in some water changes in there because Kalk will raise PH. but since I got so few (maybe 4 or 5 every few weeks or less if I find them) I don't have to worry.

[Twinn]

Just my 2 cents but if your problems has already reached plague problems it may be to late to do something like kalk paste as it will affect your water chemistry if you use too much. If you have them overtaking your tank I would lean towards a matted file fish, peppermint shrimp or berghia nudibranchs. Just remember that some of these natural solutions will either look to your coral for food or starve and die when the aipetasia is gone.

[globaldesigns]

Personally I would use some KALK paste and a syringe. Works wonders and it is only 25 cents for a syringe at your local drug store and Kalk is also cheap.

Mix some KALK in little bit of water so you can suck it into the syringe. Turn off all your pumps so you have a calm tank, and start sticking each beast and inject some kalk, then squirt some on top of it and leave it. Do a bunch and let them stand in a calm tank for 15 minutes. Turn on your pumps, kalk will start lifting off rocks, but this process has always worked for me. Killing them in one dose.

Good luck!

EDIT: If you have hundreds of them, don't kalk them all at once... I would do 20 or so a day, so the Kalk doesn't through your water param's out of whack.

[365seasons]

We've had the most luck with peppermints.
Just ask your LFS to show you that they are eating first.
Got 4 from Red Coral Calgary a while back, and haven't had aiptasia since!
Kevin put some aiptasia in the tanks and within minutes the shrimps were all over it.
=)

[Flash]

if you're ever in edmonton, Blueworld (where i work) has a few files fishes in stock!