Aiptasia on Zoa frag - how to proceed

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Take a small syringe suck up boiling hot ro water and shoot it on the aptasia acouple times put the syringe on it a suck it in the syringe. All done.
 

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May i ask, why zoas (even with aiptasia) looks like on death bed? ;)
 
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I don't have a skull with coral on it...?
No, you indeed do not. I had to back track, and there was a thread where I was looking for orange coral ideas. It was a sweet looking coral that was covering a stone skull, and I was hoping I had purchased that type of coral myself. I mixed up two different accounts, I apologize. I am a big dumb animal. Lol...
 
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i have same the problem. One hitched on my zoa frag.....why are they always in the middle of zoas? lol

I was going to try the super glue method .... or kalk paste , not sure yet lol


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Dude that is some serious aiptasia, not sure what to recommend on that one. Did you order it online and that's how it showed up? I would have probably just grabbed a different frag unless you ordered it and it showed up like that... :(
 

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Did you sort out the aiptasia issue? If a moron like me can successfully get this taken care of, you will be fine, lol. This daisy polyp frag I received had about six hiding in there. It took about 5 min to sort out in a cup of water and Aiptasia-X.

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hitched on a frag I ordered . Guess it was too small at the time but it certainly grew. I wondered why the zoas on this frag was moving away from the center and noticed this big guy.
 

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Like i said, apitasia x for some reason didnt work, for few days aiptasia is gone, then its back....

She is next to zoa head, maybe i can just shave that part of rock, loose that head, and solve problem...
Maybe it only sucked in a tiny bit? It might be worth it to try one more time. Always get it on the aiptasia while it is all the way open. Good luck!
 

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I found 2 in my tank about 5 months ago on 2 different sides of the tank. One smack dab in the middle of a zoa colony ( they must have a thing for zoas). I had 2 concerns, I didn’t want to damage my zoa polyps and that there were probably more in the parts of the rock work I couldn’t see. I ordered 4 Berghia nudibranchs from Reef Town and worked like a charm. No damage to my Zoa and it has tripled in polyps.
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I guess I'm not smart enough to know better, but I actually "nurture" my one aipstasia in my corral tank. Have for months now. Yes, it spreads... yes they die trying. I just spot treat the unwanted aipstasilings with boiling hot RO. one syringe with fitted tubing and controlled spurts of RO - no problems yet
 
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My aiptasia never came back after one aiptasiax. I wil say it looked pretty gnarly, would be a “villain” coral in a cartoon. If it didn’t risk all my other valuables I would have loved to keep it
 

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Hydrogen peroxide, take the plug out of the tank, dip it full strength for a couple of minutes and you’re done. Zoas have a super high tolerance for the h2o2, aptasia doesn’t. It’ll kill any algae on the plug too.
 

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If using super glue to cover the aiptasia, how long would the aiptasia live under the glue? Think about putting a patch of glue and then taking it off in future
 
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