Growing on my live rock (look like anemonae)

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  1. K3rack

    K3rack Peppermint Shrimp

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    Take out rock and chip it out or burn that SOB. I like the "for sure" version, and I kind of like burning things :)
     
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  3. t$sps

    t$sps Plankton

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    APTASIA! Boil it off.
     
  4. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    Its moving and everytime I get my hand in the tank it recoils into the rock crevices.
     
  5. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    If you have one and it is on an isolated piece of rock that you can remove I would just take the rock out and treat it. Far easier to treat one piece of lr now than 1/3 or more of your work down the line. This I know first hand. My experience time and time again is that kalk, joe juice, aiptasia X are not effective enough if the aiptasia can retract into a tiny hole.
     
  6. Zander

    Zander Spaghetti Worm

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    I am just going to get some peppermint shrimp and see how it does. I am going to be very strict with my feeding so that they go after the algae.
     
  7. alpha_03

    alpha_03 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    a small squirt of lemon juice- no more apstasia. vitiman c to boot. I have a pepermint shrimp- never had any problems with him tho. apstasia isnt an "algae" it is an anemone.