Is this aiptasia if so what would you do to get rid of it?

LARedstickreefer

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When I first inherited my tank it was covered in aptasia, every square inch of open rock was covered. Had some of the biggest stocks I had ever seen. Threw a Chaetodon kleini in there. Knocked it out in a few weeks. Tank is still spotless.

Off to google what a chaetodon Kleini is...
 

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Sunburst butterfly fish. Or Kleini butterfly. Be cautious they will nip it things like an anemone.
 

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Do what?! They used to sell cattle prods for aptasia?! That's crazy.
Here you go, and they’re still making this!!!
And it’s got positive feedback?... probably workers,haha.
Just like a cattle prod!

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Use the Majano on the larger ones. Cool to see those suckers fry. but in the end red sea aiptasia-x worked for me.
 

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Aiptasia-X is good stuff, closes off mouth, implodes and dissolves the little sucker!!
 

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I get one or two every so often. I take some tank water in a mug and microwave it till it's boiling. With a syringe, I suck up some of the boiling tank water and spot feed the sucker several cc's. Then with the empty syringe, I pull hard and fast from the hole the sucker receded into and sometimes it'll get sucked up into the syringe.
 

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I saw a high powered laser in the for sale section. It came with 4 chargers and 20 batteries. I was like what the heck is this for. Sure enough... you melt aptasia with it. It obviously blows through batteries. I saw a youtube video on them and a guy melted one the size of a baseball. It was pretty cool. I'll stick with aptasiaX/kalk
 

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Glue check. Epoxy check. AIP killing paste check Remove rock and chisel check. Peppermint shrimp from known aip eaters check. Nudis from a tank they cleaned up check. AIP out of control yes.

I will gladly trade aip or bta’s for frags. I’m very good at reproducing both
 
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