UHIA: Unknown Highly Invasive Anemone

[Sdot]

Wow.... you will need to find something that will consume them. With that number of them that's your only options unless you want to start over or live with them.

 

[TriggerFinger]

@KJ can you look at this one?!

 

[KJ]

Look like Aiptasia species.

Species in the genus Aiptasia include:

• Aiptasia californica
• Aiptasia couchii
• Aiptasia diaphana
• Aiptasia insignis
• Aiptasia inula
• Aiptasia leiodactyla
• Aiptasia mimosa
• Aiptasia minuta
• Aiptasia mutabilis
• Aiptasia prima
• Aiptasia pulchella
• Aiptasia tagetes

 

[Salt_Creep]

Thanks you all for all of the responses. I guess I will start loading up on Aiptasia eaters and chemicals. Closest specific species I can find is the "Pale Anemone" Exaiptasia diaphana. I don't quite know how it got out of hand this quick.

 

[Daddy-o]

You say they blow off easy? Could you make a vacuum out of a RODI canister with a 5/10 micron sediment filter and an old powerhead.
Cheers! Mark

 

[Salt_Creep]

You say they blow off easy? Could you make a vacuum out of a RODI canister with a 5/10 micron sediment filter and an old powerhead.
Cheers! Mark

I took a smaller gravel syphon and rigged a scraper onto the end and then siphoned it through a filter sock back into my sump. I can scrap and suck all the ones off the glass, its the one and behind the rock I am more concerned about. If all of this came from one or two hitchhiking on a frag, I don't know how I can ever be sure I have gotten them all.

Might have to just burn the thing down.