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New to the hobby, found my first aiptasia on a recently added drag plug, did some digging on here, and immediately removed the plug into a cup outside the system. Was able to get some aiptasia X but I made the mistake of exposing the frag to the air when I moved it so the main anemone was closed. Waited a few days for it to open, and low and behold not only had it opened, but it had moved off the plug and onto the side of the cup, and I found a small one on the side of the frag. Used the aiptasia X on all the ones I could find, then moved the frag to a different cup with new water and monitored for a few days. That was about a month ago and I haven’t seen any more aiptasia since. I did add a peppermint shrimp recently but that was only because I needed to meet a minimum order requirement to get my mantis shrimp. Peppermint shrimp disappeared a few days later. I believe the reason I likely had success was because I treated the aiptasia outside of my main system with aiptasia X and I rinsed and transferred the frag to avoid any spores or fragments getting spread around. It is totally possible that I’ll have it pop up again later on but for rn I’m confident there’s none that I can find in my system (a 13 gallon nano )