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My poor Naso Tang got curious and swooped in and it blinded him in one eye!
Aiptasia last dying act is spewing millions of spores out into the water column as they know they're dying. Lazering them only spews spores and within a few weeks you'll have 10 baby Aiptasia to every 1 you kill.
Best method IMO IME:
1) Completely Cover all the medium to large Aiptasia in some sort of paste, like AipX, JoesJuice or DIY Kalk. Pile it on so it minimizes spewing spores
2) Get a Copperband Butterfly.....they WONT eat medium to large Aiptasia bc they get stung. But they WILL eat baby ones WHOLE by plucking them completely off the LR in one BITE!!!. If you can get the population down go only baby ones, the CBB will rid the tank of them.
* CBB wont harm your LPS SPS corals unless you have clams. They will destroy a prized clam overnight
Hth
Aiptasia last dying act is spewing millions of spores out into the water column as they know they're dying. Lazering them only spews spores and within a few weeks you'll have 10 baby Aiptasia to every 1 you kill.
Well I killed all but 1 of my aiptasia using a laser well over 2 years ago and I have never seen another one since laser and then peppermint shrimps seen to the last of my aiptasia it boils down to knowing what your doing.
To the OP that's most unfortunate, I know when I did mine all my fish swam to the far end and hid behind the rock work that must have been a nosey tang that came to see what you were doing. I hope it's only a temporary blindness.
IMO, lasers are too dangerous to use for pest control. I'd assume anyone using one has glasses for that laser's wavelength but a reflected beam could blind the kid across the street. I look at the risk/benefit and it's not there.
Sorry to hear about your fish.