Ridding your tank aptasia

[vascojr]

I have found that you do not have to actually inject the aptasia to kill them. Simply spray the face with a little concentrated calcium from a needle. 1 month ago I had dozens of these pests and now I have none.
Some may require a second application but it works much better than trying to inject. I never use more than 3 syringe loads per day to prevent excess calcium. :

[stony]

yes you can use calcium but pepperment shrimp work even better!!!!!!!!!!!!!



~stony~

[motoman]

You use concentrated Calcium only in a syringe? You squirt this directly on the Aptasia? Would a Kent Marine Calcium Supplement be adequate? I mean if I put the appropriate weekly dose of calcium in a syringe and shot it at say the face of the aiptasia would it kill it?

<OR> are you referring to Kalwasser mix.....?

[joanadam]

Any liquid calcium should work.

[motoman]

Thank you, I will try this method of ridding my tank. I had purchased a Peppermint Shrimp for Aiptasia and a Cleaner to clean up a small Ich issue (one dot) I had on one fish. The Peppermint shrimp had eggs on the underside of it and after two days in the tank, one small aiptasia disappeared and the other one looked knawed on then it stopped and the little bugger is MIA, no trace, carcass nothing. The cleaner is okay and still fiesty and has molted once. IT has been about a week and I am giving up on the Peppermint as a solution if it is still alive. I noticed a hitch hiker on the live rock that was a small (less than a dime in diameter), bright blood red crab that stayed in the rock crevices and kept in there away from light and sight after the initial sighting. I think he may be a predator but I will never find him without wiping out the whole tank. HE may not be because I had a lot of red and green macro algae and before new inhabitants were put in the tank they all but disappeared being munched on.

I will provide feedback in a couple of days with my success or failure, any amount of time I should be looking at for this to take place? I mean is it instantaneous or does it die over a week or what? Multiple doses?

[rdm711]

you can also spray or inject them with hydrogen peroxide.

[DEAD_BY_DAWN]

buy some joes juice it gets rid of them in second and its super easy to use no injections on little squirt an POOF there gone .