Aiptasia Anemones

Please help. I recently bought some live rock from someone getting out of the hobby and the rock has (from what I can count) 65 Aiptasia Anemones.
Some are tiny like 1/4" and others go up to 3"
I have nothing in the tank(as far as fish or corals) and I am going through and close to the end of my cycle.

 

If it was me, I would just get rid of that piece of rock. That is a lot of aiptasia to try to control. I've also read you can boil the rock, but I'm not sure about all that entails.

 

Like KC said, I would just get rid of that rock. With that many aptasia's I wouldn't risk it. You could try to kill them by adding some peppermint shrimp or by injecting them with some Joe's juice. JoesJuice

 

The 65+ are on 90lbs of LR. One piece has 30 on its own.

 

remove the rock pour the anemones with a bunch of salt, they will shrivel up. let sit for a few minutes. uses a screw driver try to pop them off the rock.

rinse rock in saltwater put back in tank.

if you try pop the anems off to soon they will just tear and may squirt water at you.


something tells me this is probably all his rock.

 

What do you mean "something tells me this is probably all his rock"

 

they are telling you to get rid of a piece of rock assuming they are all on that piece, I think they are probably spread on multiple pieces. so removing a single one isn't a option

 

Oh yeah, its on just about all of it.
Im torn because I got a lot of nice stuff with it, little critters etc. but now Im thinking about getting rid of it all. But then im worried I may now have some "seeds" or something in the 50lbs of dry I had in it before.....ugggg

 

Just the make 100% sure before I do anything here is a shot of 3 of them.
The big one on the top is about 2"

 

whenever I see those two dogs out of the corner of my eye it looks like they are gettin it on!