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It's aiptasiaIs this aptaisia at the base of my new coral or something else like yellow polyps? Also best way to remove it if it's aptasia?
Be careful scraping fragments of Aiptasia into the water column - that’s often how they reproduce. I would use a small siphon to pull out any tissue after your hit it with the scalpel.I've stabbed the aptaisia with a red hot scalpel several times until the flesh pealed away. Then with the scalpel scraped the area, rinsed, brushed and rinsed again all outside of the tank.
If I don't come back to update this thread then that method would of worked and there is no aptaisia in the tank.
I did this outside of thr tank in a shallow dish. Then I rinsed the frag, brushed the frag and rinsed again with clean saltwater to avoid the fragments getting into the tank.Be careful scraping fragments of Aiptasia into the water column - that’s often how they reproduce. I would use a small siphon to pull out any tissue after your hit it with the scalpel.
I've stabbed the aptaisia with a red hot scalpel several times until the flesh pealed away. Then with the scalpel scraped the area, rinsed, brushed and rinsed again all outside of the tank.
If I don't come back to update this thread then that method would of worked and there is no aptaisia in the tank.