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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%
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Old 09-21-2010, 06:30 PM
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Default How did you get rid of Aptasia?

Please share your experience on how to get rid of that darned pest.
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Old 09-21-2010, 06:48 PM
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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.

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Old 09-21-2010, 06:57 PM
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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.
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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
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Old 09-21-2010, 07:23 PM
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+1 on shrimp
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+ 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.
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I did the lemon juice way. It wokred pretty well.
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I have used lemon juice on the odd ones that have shown up on rock or frags. The important thing is to use a sharp syringe and try to inject the juice into the body of the aptasia. Nukes it almost instantly.
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I was using Aptasia X for awhile but was fighting a losing battle so I threw about 25% of my rock in hot tap water for a couple hours...that should teach them sons a... So now I have cut my population back to about 40 000. I put in two of the Berghia Nudis a couple of days ago...see what happens...they wont starve anytime soon...lol
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Default You don't get rid of them.

I didn't vote as I have tried:

Copper band: Keeps them in check until the copper band dies if you can find one that eats them. My copper band lasted just over a year.
Peppermint shrimps: Tried on several occasions with no noticeable change in population.
Kalk Paste: Keeps them in the rocks for a week or 2 then they return.
Injecting vinegar: No effect – the aptasia laugh at you!
Berghia Nudibranch: Put 4 of them in never to be seen again. No effect on the aptasia.
Boiling water injections: No effect. They shrivel and come back with a vengeance.

So now every week or so I cover them and inject the bigger ones with Kalk. They are still there but are not so noticeable.


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