Aiptasia Assassination Alert!

[john.m.cole3]

tonight I saw 3 little aiptasia that needed to go so I mixed up a hefty half teaspoon of kalk powder with about 15 ml of water to make a kalk paste. after killing the first 3 I noticed another... then another... my fiance and kid got involved and became family time. My eyes aren't as good as theirs are so they gave me directions, "forward, down, to the right. Do it do it!"

Anyways, I killed about 15 of em total, LOL. Now I'm wondering to myself if all that kalk will mess my alk up . I killed all flow for 5 minutes before the assassinations and left it off for 30 minutes after. I made another round of kalk paste but only used half of it. so that's about 1 teaspoon total. does it just precipitate out when used like this or am I facing an alk spike?

 

[Triggreef]

Its still in the tank and will likely raise alk by some amount. Depending on the tank size will determine how much.

 

[john.m.cole3]

80 gallons total volume

 

[john.m.cole3]

I test alk daily at lunch. Earlier it was 7.85 and 30 minutes after the mass killing, it was 8 dkh. I think I'm good.

 

[Elementalj]

tonight I saw 3 little aiptasia that needed to go so I mixed up a hefty half teaspoon of kalk powder with about 15 ml of water to make a kalk paste. after killing the first 3 I noticed another... then another... my fiance and kid got involved and became family time. My eyes aren't as good as theirs are so they gave me directions, "forward, down, to the right. Do it do it!"

Anyways, I killed about 15 of em total, LOL. Now I'm wondering to myself if all that kalk will mess my alk up . I killed all flow for 5 minutes before the assassinations and left it off for 30 minutes after. I made another round of kalk paste but only used half of it. so that's about 1 teaspoon total. does it just precipitate out when used like this or am I facing an alk spike?

Oh mah GAWD!

How did you apply the paste? Syringe? Fingertips? A dead rat?

 

[john.m.cole3]

3 ml syringe with 18 gauge blunt tip

 

[Elementalj]

3 ml syringe with 18 gauge blunt tip

Full syringe per organism?

 

[john.m.cole3]

No way! Lol. I filled it 4 times though. Some were hard to get to and I would squirt until i nailed em. Prosit around 1 response of kalk powder total. It was like I killed one and then we spotted 2 more! I found one in the underside of a power head I am suspecting little glad anemones were getting lend throughout my tank.

 

[Lninwa]

Did all the aptasia die?

 

[Elementalj]

 

[john.m.cole3]

Hahaha oh yes. My eyes were at a half gaze as I looked over the tank. Waiting for the next of tthe enemies to surface. There is one! Load the syringe I'm going in. As I approach in a stealth like mode. Things slow down. I bring the tip of the syringe by the aiptasia mouth. I depress the syringe slowly and with intent. The enemy eats and dies.

 

[john.m.cole3]

I was trying to make the process of killing aiptasia seem gruesome in the above post.

 

[JimWelsh]

I was trying to make the process of killing aiptasia seem gruesome in the above post.

You have a great future as a writer!

 

[Tori]

Sounds like it was a glorious war. Congrats on the victory!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

tonight I saw 3 little aiptasia that needed to go so I mixed up a hefty half teaspoon of kalk powder with about 15 ml of water to make a kalk paste. after killing the first 3 I noticed another... then another... my fiance and kid got involved and became family time. My eyes aren't as good as theirs are so they gave me directions, "forward, down, to the right. Do it do it!"

Anyways, I killed about 15 of em total, LOL. Now I'm wondering to myself if all that kalk will mess my alk up . I killed all flow for 5 minutes before the assassinations and left it off for 30 minutes after. I made another round of kalk paste but only used half of it. so that's about 1 teaspoon total. does it just precipitate out when used like this or am I facing an alk spike?

Sounds good!

Another thing to watch is the pH spike. A 1.4 dKH alk boost will boost pH more than 0.6 pH units.

Happy Reefing. :)

 

[Duke4Life]

Sounds good!

Another thing to watch is the pH spike. A 1.4 dKH alk boost will boost pH more than 0.6 pH units.

Happy Reefing. :)

I didn't realize this and thanks for posting @Randy Holmes-Farley .

 

[jd371]

Is 10 minutes too short for the kalk paste to do it's thing? I put the pumps into feed mode when killing Aptasia. Should I leave them off longer?

 

[Rutrag]

Is 10 minutes too short for the kalk paste to do it's thing? I put the pumps into feed mode when killing Aptasia. Should I leave them off longer?

IME, kalk paste seems to work pretty quickly. I've used the same method minus turning the pumps off, so I've got to believe 10 minutes is plenty.

 

[Aliyanna]

If you find aiptasia, send it to me. I am breeding Berghias, I need all of them :)

 

[Neptune98]

Is this aiptaisia? The bright green one.