effective way to kill aiptasia (now with moar lasers!)

[lastlight]

I'll admit I wanted to see what my frontosas would think of a laser pointer once. They took immediate notice and went crazy trying to get it!

I am not sure how you could have that thing shining in there that long and not have a fish notice (see) the end point. Equal parts awesome and risky here.

[Nano]

wow some of you guys have some real horror stories!! I guess I have been lucky in that department so far. I had a manjo, and about 10 aiptasia, all on one piece of LR when I was first cycling the tank, I almost thought of just removing the rock, until I noticed, there were about 6-8 more through our on other rocks, So i had heard of aiptasia x, but couldnt find any at that time, so I went with tropic marine aiptasia killer. it said to inject it directly into the polyp.. well if you've ever tried this, you know its next to impossible, I managed to get one this way but the rest would suck inside themselves. so I just stabbed the Sh*t out of them with the needle while they were close and filled them with the tropic marine, havent had an aiptasia in 3 month except one on a frag of zoo's recently, no that one I was scared to inject for fear of killing the zoo's but I was lucky to get the aiptasia only in this instance. nasty little buggers. but so far I count myself lucky!

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by nanomano

so I just stabbed the Sh*t out of them with the needle while they were close and filled them with the tropic marine

you sir, need a job writing the instructions on these products

[Nano]

Originally Posted by lastlight

you sir, need a job writing the instructions on these products

lol yes blunt and to the point thats what I figured the pests deserved though as sadistic as it is

[Money pit]

Once the aiptasia are dead, you can always get your kicks by frying the claws off hitchhiker crabs Wait for them to molt and do over

[Nano]

Originally Posted by Money pit

Once the aiptasia are dead, you can always get your kicks by frying the claws off hitchhiker crabs Wait for them to molt and do over

And I thought what I said was sadistic!!

[monocus]

all in all-even though it would be fun to use the laser-i will stick to the berghia.if only one cell is left from the aptasia-it will grow into more.i would also worry about my fish swimming into the beam-and they are active.i also watched the video and saw how the zoas reacted-and even though it said the zoas came back in a couple of minutes,to get all the one aptasia,you would have to move the beam around-and nobody's hand is that steady-too much collateral damage

[Madreefer]

I'm usually one that jumps on the new and latest. Not this time, i'm going to sit back and wait for one of the members on this site to try it first. Who's it going to be?

[lastlight]

somebody with more money than me.

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