Aiptasia removal

I just got back from the LFS with a nice piece of LR. Unfortunately, I can see a few aiptasia stalks on it. Knowing that it is nearly impossible to get rid of, I'm torn between drying the rock until it dies or another countermeasure. My though is to take a torch lighter to the stalk. Granted that will kill off the bacteria in the nearby area but preserve most of the life left on the rock. Has anyone ever tried this? Any success?

 

try boiling water or lemon juice injected into the stalk . should release.

 

Upon closer inspection or the rock, I found quite a few stalks. I'm just going to dry it out $6 down the drain.

 

or could joes juice or aiptasia-x if theres that many. just drying it out might not totally work. may want to try the bleach method.

 

make a kalkwasser paste (kalk w/ very little water) and inject them with that.. wait few minutes then put rock into tank..

 

If the rock has no coral on it there is a old trick that works.

Put the rock in tank water in a bucket and fill the bucket with sand. Cover the rock by 2 inches. With in 2 days the pests will poke their head through the sand looking for food and light and basically to dig them selves out of the sand.

Then just pick them up and kill them

 

ive never heard that one rob. very cool idea , thnx for adding to knowledge.

 

indeed a new (to me) and great idea.