fishlette
Fish Addict
after reading a few posts here and looking around the net, i have come to the conclusion i have at least one aiptasia in my cycling tank. ive read all the things about injecting them and sucking them etc but im not sure exactly how to do it lol if i use lemon juice, do i simply stick the needle in and inject??? how do i know when its dead? what happens to the water if they are removed normally? are they toxic? i mean i know they are to fish but do they release something bad into the water as well?
im thinking as my tank is still cycling it would be the best time to deal with the problem so no adverse effects on the fish ???
or, just thinking still, its been nearly two weeks and the stats in the tank are starting to settle, should i just get a few peppermint shrimp in a week or so and let them deal with it rather than messing with the water?
on a different note, over the last few days the substrate in the tank seems a little discoloured for want of a better word. sort of like a thin layer of algae but its sorta like little tiny grains of dirt or something. cant find my camera at the moment or id take pics but hopefully can find it later.
and finally, i have this anemone/coraly looking thingy that was a hitchiker in my LR and ive been doing some research and cant seem to find out what it is. i think thats in part due to the fact that i dont know what kind of thing it is to search for it
so marine dumb in many ways right now lol will get pics of this later too but it started of quite small like a mushroom sort of shape and its pale pink. its grown quite a bit now and its has lots of tentacle things like an anemone with little flower sorta bits at the end...that is an awful description...im sorry lol but i figure seeing as it was hardy enough to survive all the way to my tank then i figure it may be something quite common.
ill get lots of pics when i can as there is a bunch of stuff in there that i would like to know what they are. there are many many feather dusters of all different colours. are these all ok? are there any to watch out for?
thanks in advance
emily
im thinking as my tank is still cycling it would be the best time to deal with the problem so no adverse effects on the fish ???
or, just thinking still, its been nearly two weeks and the stats in the tank are starting to settle, should i just get a few peppermint shrimp in a week or so and let them deal with it rather than messing with the water?
on a different note, over the last few days the substrate in the tank seems a little discoloured for want of a better word. sort of like a thin layer of algae but its sorta like little tiny grains of dirt or something. cant find my camera at the moment or id take pics but hopefully can find it later.
and finally, i have this anemone/coraly looking thingy that was a hitchiker in my LR and ive been doing some research and cant seem to find out what it is. i think thats in part due to the fact that i dont know what kind of thing it is to search for it
so marine dumb in many ways right now lol will get pics of this later too but it started of quite small like a mushroom sort of shape and its pale pink. its grown quite a bit now and its has lots of tentacle things like an anemone with little flower sorta bits at the end...that is an awful description...im sorry lol but i figure seeing as it was hardy enough to survive all the way to my tank then i figure it may be something quite common.ill get lots of pics when i can as there is a bunch of stuff in there that i would like to know what they are. there are many many feather dusters of all different colours. are these all ok? are there any to watch out for?
thanks in advance
emily
. Took my peppermint 1 night to eat my 4 aiptasia... Some people have mixed reviews, but that gets my vote for ease of removal. 
. If you cant get a hypodermic, you can squirt lemon juice on them too. Either way you'll need multiple treatments as these are resillient little buggers.
/www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/...ia/aiptasia.htm
anyhoo im sure theyre there.
