Aiptasia And Other Growth

[PaBucsFan]

I just want to confirm that this is aiptasia before I kill it and if there anything of interest growing on this LR?

 

[Pearsondesign]

it looks like one, but to be sure, poke it with something
if it receeds back into the rock rather than just closing the tentacles then it deffo is

 

[Rayne457]

Yup. It looks like Aiptasia to me.

 

[seffieuk]

it looks like one, but to be sure, poke it with something
if it receeds back into the rock rather than just closing the tentacles then it deffo is

Looks like it to me as well and is there another one just growing a bit further up?

Seffie x

 

[PaBucsFan]

Seffie I am not sure if there is or not but I will look when I get home as I said in my other post 2 minutes ago in a different thread. If it is it will be taken care of tonight around 6 east coast time!

 

[seffieuk]

Enjoy

Seffie x

 

[PaBucsFan]

Well I can happily tell you that the aiptasia was destroyed with a hot knife. It died with a "pop" haha. I'm glad it is out of the tank hopefully it wont spawn anymore of it for a while or ever.

 

[Pearsondesign]

lol, you think a few is bad??
check my coral tank out!!

i had to put the rocks from my fish only tank in after the break in, and they were covered in aiptasia, mainly cos i didnt care in my fish only tank...but now grrrr!

 

[PaBucsFan]

Again I'm sorry about the break in! Are you going to remove it or will it be okay if they are only in there temporarily?

 

[Pearsondesign]

im going to get a new larger tank so when i do ill be either using aiptasia x to remove them, or just buy new LR, its a lot of effort getting rid of this many of them

but, if anyone wants to buy the rock, then im open to offers

probably about 10 kg ish of rock

 

[PaBucsFan]

I wish I lived in the UK! I needed about 3 more pounds to make the 10 needed for my tank but I just got 4.5 pounds today for 22.50 US dollars

 

[PaBucsFan]

Well Seffie you definitely called it. As I was adding the final 4.5 pounds of LR to my tank today I discovered another Aiptasia growing next to the burial grounds of the first one. It will be destroyed within the hour, this time instead of a knife fresh out of boiling water it will be a blow torch.

 

[Pearsondesign]

i dont think that will do it either.
if possible get a syringe, mis some boiling water with some lemon juice and squirt it directly on the little #28###!
has worked wonoders for me in the past, but i havent bothered with these new ones cos theres too many

 

[PaBucsFan]

Hot water and lemon juice? I can try that I suppose. I just need to get a baby medicine syringe or something.

 

[seffieuk]

I would say dont bother, they seem to be able to move very quickly out of the way - i have tried the boiling water and lemon juice, it appears to work but then they just appear elsewhere just buy yourself a cheap thin pointed soldering iron and stick it in their hole, they cant escape then and they just melt away

Seffie x