dealing with my litte aptasia

i am getting ready to inject my litle friend with lemon juice. any advce on how much to use? and is this safe for my system? and when d i remove it after injecting? please and thank you. also notice in pic the close aproxemity to my kenya tree coral will the aptasia harm him?

 

You won't need a lot. You will probably inject no more than 0.2ml total, and 0.1ml of that will be lost in the system. And no, it will not hurt anything outside the aiptasia. Just inject the little anemone right in the mouth and let it die. If it does not work, I would get a small bottle of Kalkwasser and mix some in water. I usually keep about an ounce on hand in a small pharmacy bottle. Then I inject that into the anemone in the same amount. Except, this has always worked for me. 100% kill rating on this end.

 

got ya as for it harming my kenya? do you know if it is possable

 

I killed a few with boiling water, boiled it in the microwave then used a plastic syringe, but you have to be quick cause if its not hot enough it won't kill it...or get some peppermint shrimp, I haven't had any aptasia since I got my peppermint

 

I bought the aptisia x and uses it in the same manner. I had one that was touching my kenya and one in a zoa colony neither was affected. Your safe blast away.

 

I'd worry more about the aiptasia harming the coral than the lemon juice harming it.
I personally don't like to use chemicals to kill them, i went and got peppermint shrimp. They're very pretty and amusing to watch. They wrap the aiptasia around their claw like a forkful of spaghetti.
Just make sure its a true peppermint and not a camel back shrimp.