Aiptasia - ready to give up

I have aiptasia in my tank now I have not bought any live rock or corals in the last month. I have never once had aiptasia in my tank before this and now there is one growing on a high point of rock right next to my zoas, where I'm having a very bad hair algae outbreak. Where could this have come from? Is it possible for aiptasia just to grow on its own? I also I'm worried that I have flatworms on my tank glass. They look like red copepods. I have no idea where they are coming from. Between these new plagues, the constant hair algae problems, the vermetid snails that cover every inch of my live rock, and the fact that I'm probably moving out of this apartment in 3 months anyway, I'm considering just tearing this tank down. I want a nice reef and I'm starting to think this is just beyond repair. I might just strip it down to a frag tank until I move and get my drilled 90g installed. At least keep my corals and my harptail blenny.

 

Boil water in microwave take a syring and shot away..... done

 

For every one you can see there's 10 you can't. The only way to completely get rid of them is with Berghia Nudibranch.

 

Peppermint shrimp! Only way to keep the stuff gone. Aptasia-x works awesome but you have to hit everyone and they will just come back. Same with hot water.

I had tons of aptasia and would kill it every day. Got 2 peppermint shrimp and havent seen one since.

 

I know how to get rid of it. I'm more concerned with where it came from. Tank started with 100% dry rock and I haven't put anything new in the tank for a month. The aiptasia is far far away from anything new in the tank.

 

just takes a little spore in water! Ya may have had one hiding somewhere that spawned! I'd get the nudibranch reefmonkey suggested!

 

I don't have any money to do anything. I'm just gonna clear the whole tank out. Throw out everything. Sell off the fish, hopefully make enough to buy a new 40g tank and attempt to safe the $800 worth of corals in the tank before they are killed by flatworms, vermetid snails, and covered in aiptasia. These tank is kind of a lost cause, no matter what I get I will always have aiptasia, vermetid snails, and flatworms in it. Best to cut my losses and start new. Just run it as a bare bottom frag tank with no fish and no rock.

 

All of those pests are usually quite simply controlled. And if you are keeping the coral...well...unless you are dipping them all, those pests all coming with. And even with a dip, any microscopic aptasia is coming with anyway.

From what I've seen, flatworms don't resemble copepods. If they do, then they're probably not the bad kinds.

Algae is generally a water quality issue, and since vermitids are filter feeders, I'd say they are too.

But if you are moving in a few months anyway...a bare tank with only corals will probably resolve the water quality issues.

 

Looks like you have your mind set to just give up on it. Just in case you can set the frag tank and once you cycle and DIP your corals you can transfer them. When you move get the tank drilled and boil all rock for as log as you can. If anything comes back it was destined to be there;D Just don't give up and unless you make a living off of your tank it is suppose to be a hobby. Have fun.

 

My tanks been up for a year. All my rock came from BRS Dry Pukani. I just got done treating my tank with Flat Worm Exit..I was scooping them out by the hundreds after 1 minute of dosing the stuff Took me a half hour to do the entire treatment. 5g water change and ran some carbon for about 4hrs..done! Bottom line is...doesn't really matter where the dang things came from...just know that there's always a solution!
But seeing that your moving....tear it down!