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I know there are many good products out there to get rid of aptasia and even plenty of natural methods like peppermint shrimp but not wanting to buy an animal I don't really want or order any products right now and having some aptasia starting to appear I got to thinking, 'what about injecting some liquid calcium?'.
I have some Kent's I keep on hand as it does purple coralline growth very well and my neighbor is a diabetic so I got a needle and drew some liquid calcium into it and injected it into some of the aptasia and it killed them.
I like this method because the liquid calcium is not nearly as potent as some of the products out there and it takes a lot before there is any change in water parameters. A 1/2cc will do about 5 aptasia and you would need 10+ of these to make a dose for a 50gl. accoring to the bottle for calcium increase.
Just wanted to share that and like I said, I know there are plenty of good products available for aptasia control so not trying to replace any of them with this thread.
I have some Kent's I keep on hand as it does purple coralline growth very well and my neighbor is a diabetic so I got a needle and drew some liquid calcium into it and injected it into some of the aptasia and it killed them.
I like this method because the liquid calcium is not nearly as potent as some of the products out there and it takes a lot before there is any change in water parameters. A 1/2cc will do about 5 aptasia and you would need 10+ of these to make a dose for a 50gl. accoring to the bottle for calcium increase.
Just wanted to share that and like I said, I know there are plenty of good products available for aptasia control so not trying to replace any of them with this thread.