Aptasia in pico reef tank

[Sandy Garcia]

Small Aptasia in my reef tank should I use kalkwasser or will it raise my parameters to high ?

 

[BlueNem]

Small Aptasia in my reef tank should I use kalkwasser or will it raise my parameters to high ?

Hi

Is so tiny and cute hehe. Just use boiling freshwater and inject it in the center of it. It should die almost instantly and repeat if necessary trust me it won't affect anything and it will be effective.


Regards,

 

[Sandy Garcia]

Hi

Is so tiny and cute hehe. Just use boiling freshwater and inject it in the center of it. It should die almost instantly and repeat if necessary trust me it won't affect anything and it will be effective.


Regards,

Ohhh sick yeah I'll definitely do that tomorrow when I do my water change thank you !

 

[Uncle99]

If you can get F-Aptasia, this stuff is great for that, as it encapsulates the nem, hardens in an hour, then you just break it off at weeks end and discard.

 

[Sandy Garcia]

Does it work better than the boiling water method ?

 

[Spare time]

You could also use gel superglue

 

[Sandy Garcia]

You could also use gel superglue

Yeah I can definitely try that too!

 

[AustinC]

You could also use gel superglue

Do you superglue the mouth of it?

 

[AustinC]

Hi

Is so tiny and cute hehe. Just use boiling freshwater and inject it in the center of it. It should die almost instantly and repeat if necessary trust me it won't affect anything and it will be effective.


Regards,

I’ve seen someone do it at the base too. Do you put the boiling water in its mouth?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Lemon juice injected into it I've heard works too. If there's only a couple, remove the rock, scrape it off, and put a glob of super glue gel over where it was so it can't grow back

 

[Tahoe61]

I would yank that rock out so fast. I will never treat Aiptasia in a tank with kalkwasser, hot water, lemon juice, superglue, AiptasiaX ever again, it doesn't work long term. They always come back.

Peppermint Shrmp or Nudibrach only for in tank treatment.

In a Pico or small Nano it's far easier to remove the rock, treat and return. Or go the Aiptasia predator route.

 

[Spare time]

Do you superglue the mouth of it?

I just poke it so it retracts then super glue the whole thing