Making Aiptasia More Visible

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Is it possible to see aiptasia better under certain lights, like UV?
I bought a new tank and put everything in a temporary tank while I did an acid bath and bleached my rock from the old tank.
I sterilized everything that was used on my old tank with bleach and fresh water.
I cycled the old rock in a brute can and now the new tank is set up with my fish in it.
I have a pretty large blue maxima clam on a rock that is in my temporary tank, and I know the rock had aiptasia on it when I took it out of the DT, and I used Aiptasia-X on them. Right now I am observing it for aiptasia growth.
The temporary tank has some peppermint shrimp and a file fish along with my corals in it.
I have never seen the file fish eat aiptasia, even in my old tank while they were all over, and the peppermint shrimp never come out during daylight so I don't know if they are eating it or not.
There is no aiptasia visible right now.
I want to put the clam back in my DT, but I want to make sure there is no aiptasia on the rock or the clam before it goes back in the DT.

I was wondering if it will glow like a coral does under certain lights?
 

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