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Old 05-09-2005, 06:45 PM
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I have a couple rocks that are starting to show these pesty #$%$^. Was just wondering what people are using that is affectively killing em and is an ongoing success.
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Old 05-09-2005, 06:48 PM
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I had a copper band butterfly that ate aptasia, but I would usually boil them because its more fun for me.
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got a pepermint shrimp as I had about 100 aptasia. It took a week to get him started but he cleaned the tank out in about 4 days
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Could I borrow him/her? I got some nice aiptasia snacks for it.

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Old 05-09-2005, 07:10 PM
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I had 2 peppermint shrimp, now I'm down to one. Neither of them seems to care for the 2 aptasia in my tank. I've read so much about peppermint shrimp and everything is saying it's completly hit or miss.
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Old 05-09-2005, 07:22 PM
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How do you distinguish which peppermint is the real macoy? This maybe my problem in the past, not obtaining the right specie. Maybe you have a few pointers to how I can identify the right one for the job. what should I look for in terms of appearance wise.

I know which specie to obtain, just don't know how to differentiate them apart without having them both of the readily availble in the pet store.
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I had the same result as DanG, my 2 pepermint shrimp didn't take a liking to my aptasia. I saw a thread somewhere that people were using the water they use to rinse/defrost their frozen food (mysis or brine shrimp) and mix Kalk in it after they pour it off. The aptasia sence a feeding and suck the kalk soaked water up and quickly melt away. Other than that I use a mix of boiling saturated Kalk to blast em....but am thinking about trying this new method!
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I used a very thick kalk paste to good effect
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inject with ph up from a hydroponic store melts them away over night .
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i used some joes today and it worked great.
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