Aiptasia--HUGE problem!!!

I got a 72 gallon tank from a friend and had to store it over at a friend's house for a few months until i could move it....when I finally did move it i realized there is aiptasia everywhere!!! he must not have known about these pesky anemones... anyways--i'm not talking like the small little newbie aiptasia--its like hardcore, BIG aiptasia and i need to get rid of it asap!! i bought some stuff to kill it but you can only do so much of it every day....is there any way to just pluck them off or anything??

I appreciate your help!!!

 

wow, that is a lot. DONT try to manually remove them, this will make it worse. i would do what you can with aiptasiaX or Joes juice, and maybe buy a few peppermint shrimp to help. if they are mostly on a rock or two, you could nuke those rocks, otherwise i dunno.... good luck

 

ok great thanks for the reply! so the peppermint shrimp won't be harmful to any of my fish??

 

no they are reef safe, just ensure that they are true pepperments, there is another kind of shrimp that looks like them but picks at corals. i wouldnt rely on the peppermints to SOLVE the problem, but they can help.

 

definately. thank you!!

 

Yeah, don't over kill on the "juice". Do a section one day and another the next. I put my heavily populated aptasia rocks in the peppermint tank and they wipe it clean by morning... then I swap out the rocks.
I mixed 1 part calcium and 1 part lemon juice to 2 parts tank water and that was more inexpensive then juice when cleaning other people's tanks. The extra bit I squirt in the sump as a calcium suppliment.
Good luck!

 

What all do you have in the tank?

 

i use the syringe from aiptasiaX and squirt kalk slurry over them.

 

depending on ur tank situation & what you wanna go w/ maybe a copperband butterfly...feed on the regularly and make sure your water parameters are right if you go that route...if not try a group of peppermint shrimp if there is nothing in the tank that will pick on 'em...but if u wanna try getting rid of 'em urself I would try Aiptasia-X. Worked well for me and didnt have any problems even doing a heavy dosing w/ corals in the tank...but it is hard 2 remove all of 'em w/ a remedy so I'd try the copperband or the shrimp....i'm thinkin about getting a copperband for my other tank...had one before and worked great but that was a while back

 

I was individually treating with Joe's Juice, which works great, but then I got 3 peppermint shrimp and haven't seen an apitasia since. Good luck!