How did you get rid of Aptasia?

amoreira · #1 09-21-2010, 06:30 PM

Please share your experience on how to get rid of that darned pest.

#2 09-21-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by amoreira

Please share your experience on how to get rid of that darned pest.

I did not vote because you do not have peppermint shrimp as an option I think you may find they are used quite often.
I used peppermint shrimp works well and they can stay in the tank as long as you want them in there. they keep patrolling for the little devil Nems and also eat any extra food the rest of the tank misses.

Bill

amoreira · #3 09-21-2010, 06:57 PM

Forgot peppermint shrimp... They never work for me because I believe there's a nasty predator crab in my rockwork that hunts them down. Anyways, I can't go back and edit the poll. No room for error. Peppermint Shrimp fans can weigh in on this thread.

scub steve · #4 09-21-2010, 07:21 PM

I have had shrimp work for me I also got to the end of my rope and picked up one of thouse little blow torch lighters and pulled every rock out and burned the little basterds off. Suprizingly satisfiying

fencer · #5 09-21-2010, 07:23 PM

+1 on shrimp

TheMikey · #6 09-21-2010, 07:25 PM

+ 1 on shrimp. Then when the aptasia was gone (seemingly) it started picking at my plate. So I sold him. Not aptasia's back! Might try the blowtorch method... muahhahaha.

StirCrazy · #7 09-22-2010, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bvlester

I did not vote because you do not have peppermint shrimp as an option I think you may find they are used quite often.
I used peppermint shrimp works well and they can stay in the tank as long as you want them in there. they keep patrolling for the little devil Nems and also eat any extra food the rest of the tank misses.

Bill

I will second the pepermint shrimp, I used kalk slury to nuke the big ones with a needle and the 4 pepermint shrimp I had took care of the rest. you have to be carfull you are getting real pepermint shrimp though not the ones that look almost the same.

Steve

pelle31 · #8 09-21-2010, 09:43 PM

I have used Shrimp in the past,worked alright. Have also used Sodium Hydroxide and theres no foolin with that stuff......one dose=DEATH!!

Kinda nice bein a Chemical Cleaner!!

monocus · #9 09-22-2010, 05:35 AM

tried joes juice-just made a mess and blew around from my wave box-made kaulkwasser paste-better than joes juice-injected them with lemonjuice-worked good but you can't get all the buggers-finally used berghia-took time but it eradicated them-and the bonus is i sold the offspring to my local aquatic store

bkelly · #10 09-22-2010, 06:01 AM

peppermint shrimp !

View Poll Results: How did you get rid of Aptasia?
Copper Band Butterfly	18	21.43%
Berghia Nudibranch	10	11.90%
Slather them with Kalk Paste	10	11.90%
Aptasia-X Injection	10	11.90%
Joes Juice	11	13.10%
Caustic Soda/Water Injection	1	1.19%
Lemon Juice Injection	11	13.10%
Impossible to eradicate and are taking over (HELP!)	13	15.48%
Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll