Aiptasia?

[PointerReefs]

Found this at the base of my rocketman favia. Pretty sure it’s aiptasia. Should I just toss the whole thing?

 

[Wonkabar]

No you shouldn't just toss a healthy coral in the garbage. Aiptasia is super hard to avoid and you are probably better off managing it. Just pull the plug and carefully scrape it off. Or go any of the aiptasia management routes.

 

[PointerReefs]

No you shouldn't just toss a healthy coral in the garbage. Aiptasia is super hard to avoid and you are probably better off managing it. Just pull the plug and carefully scrape it off. Or go any of the aiptasia management routes.

Yeah you’re right. I’m just trying to avoid it as long as I can in this tank.. was a free frag so I’m not too attached to it but I pulled it for now and placed in a QT tank. Hoping it hasn’t already spread anywhere else in the tank it came from. Hasn’t been in there too long yet.

 

[MikeReefs]

I say pry it off the plug or superglue the hell of of it

 

[Wonkabar]

Yeah you’re right. I’m just trying to avoid it as long as I can in this tank.. was a free frag so I’m not too attached to it but I pulled it for now and placed in a QT tank. Hoping it hasn’t already spread anywhere else in the tank it came from. Hasn’t been in there too long yet.

I dont blame you for trying to avoid it. I would as well. Just pull it off the plug and put it on a new one with a bunch of glue and leave it in QT for a bit to see if it pops up again. Oh yea and pray lol.

 

[PointerReefs]

I say pry it off the plug or superglue the hell of of it

Kind of what I’m leaning toward. Hopefully it will come off easily got my superglue ready for when it pops back up

 

[PointerReefs]

Yeah you’re right. I’m just trying to avoid it as long as I can in this tank.. was a free frag so I’m not too attached to it but I pulled it for now and placed in a QT tank. Hoping it hasn’t already spread anywhere else in the tank it came from. Hasn’t been in there too long yet.

I dont blame you for trying to avoid it. I would as well. Just pull it off the plug and put it on a new one with a bunch of glue and leave it in QT for a bit to see if it pops up again. Oh yea and pray lol.

Praying will absolutely be involved haha, tanks been running almost a year and a half no aiptasia. Had just noticed a bunch of new heads on my acans and blasto’s too then I saw that like aww dang it

 

[PointerReefs]

Pryed it off the original frag plug kind of trimmed off the area it was on rinsed and glued the area onto a “new” plug

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

That should do

 

[Wonkabar]

Pryed it off the original frag plug kind of trimmed off the area it was on rinsed and glued the area onto a “new” plug

Looks good to me. Yea I just saw my first one on this tank a week ago. Now I have a baby stripey lol.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

there is no way that anyone can avoid aptasia. You're actually really lucky that this one is super easy to remove.

 

[PointerReefs]

Wish I could add a critter in there that would keep it in check for me but it’s only 15g and has 2 VERY territorial clowns lol they aren’t goofing around

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

Wish I could add a critter in there that would keep it in check for me but it’s only 15g and has 2 VERY territorial clowns lol they aren’t goofing around

the good thing with a tank that size is you can just pull out a rock and treat each one. The bad thing is that some treatments will also irritate and/or kill coral its also on.

 

[PointerReefs]

there is no way that anyone can avoid aptasia. You're actually really lucky that this one is super easy to remove.

True, figured it would happen eventually. Not planning on adding any more coral to this tank though just going to grow out what’s in there.

 

[PointerReefs]

Wish I could add a critter in there that would keep it in check for me but it’s only 15g and has 2 VERY territorial clowns lol they aren’t goofing around

the good thing with a tank that size is you can just pull out a rock and treat each one. The bad thing is that some treatments will also irritate and/or kill coral its also on.

Ahh yeah, if it doesn’t appear anywhere else I might be able to keep it in the clear from now on. But time will tell. Just started a larger tank a few weeks back and this is holding some of the Black Friday frags for me while the bigger one matures.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

I'm pretty sure you can add a peppermint shrimp. I have 2 of them and they took care of my aiptasia.

I'm pretty sure you can keep one in a 15, but someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

Wish I could add a critter in there that would keep it in check for me but it’s only 15g and has 2 VERY territorial clowns lol they aren’t goofing around

the good thing with a tank that size is you can just pull out a rock and treat each one. The bad thing is that some treatments will also irritate and/or kill coral its also on.

Omg, so dang true. My tank isn’t huge but at 75gl and a sump, i’m never gonna track down them all. I get one or two that pop up every month or two

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

I'm pretty sure you can add a peppermint shrimp. I have 2 of them and they took care of my aiptasia.

I'm pretty sure you can keep one in a 15, but someone correct me if I am wrong.

What are the pitfalls of peppermint shrimp? I know i’m not touching an Aiptasia eating filefish. I am not risking my corals

 

[PointerReefs]

I'm pretty sure you can add a peppermint shrimp. I have 2 of them and they took care of my aiptasia.

I'm pretty sure you can keep one in a 15, but someone correct me if I am wrong.

I could try but I might have to lock up the two felons, they killed my last shrimp in 2 days. :(

 

[PointerReefs]

Even got a lil tear drop under his eye. Angry fish. Will not be going into my bigger tank lol