Help identify this guy; I think he's bad

I guess none of us know the answer to the lemon juice question!

The advice I was given with the vinegar was to use a very pure form as impurities can add to algae issues.

I would imagine lemon juice has a bit more organic material, but I don't know for sure ;D

You could probably try by just adding 2 or 3 ml at first and see how it goes?

I add about 15 ml vinegar to a gallon of kalk mix but I started real low.

 

I strian fresh lemon juice, boil it, and while its still very hot inject it in the anemone with a small gauge needle. As for the shrimp, peppermint shrimp mow down "baby" aps but wont do anything to big ones. If it gets out of control i would inject them over the course of a few days or weeks depending on how many you have. I killed about 30 a week in a clients tank and spent a total of about 2 MONTHS waging war on em. Once they were sufficiently annihalated i put some good sized "peppermint" shrimp in there and theyve never come back.

 

Well I had to break down go ask walgreens for a needle i think they thought i was a drugie (looked at me funny), but gave me one i injected the ones i could get to and wow the like sriveled up and dired untill the next day they were back .grrrr so i hit um again and it seems like the big opnes didnt come back i think they ar all slowly disapearing at night maybee shrimp are finally eating at night ?

 

Peppermint shrimp take a few weeks to start eating aptaisia so be patient. They will only eat the small aptasia so kill the larger one's with Joe's Juice, the stuff works great. You dont have to inject it directly in the aptasia, just squirt it on the top part so it injest it and in a few minutes its dead and you can suction it out of your tank. Back to the peppermint shrimp for a sec.. If your feeding your shrimp daily they are less likely to eat the aptasia. I have had good luck with the shrimp so far.

 

I had reef aquariums for years and have had several battles with aiptasia. They are a royal pain in the ass, to be sure, but it is not impossible to eradicate them. Here is a list of things I have found to work:

1: Take the rock out of the tank, and grind the little bastard with the end of a thick copper wire. Copper kills or damages most marine inverts on contact. Then, rinse the rock lightly with freshwater mixed with a little vinegar to kill any surviving cells.

2:Take the rock out of the tank, and pour a small amount of boiling water into the crack it lives in.

3ut the rock in the microwave for 30 seconds or so. (This will kill any good stuff on the rock too, so be careful.)

4:Inject it with fresh, boiling kalkwasser (this works like a charm) Also try vinegar, lemon juice, or even your weekly trace supplements.

5:Various critters will eat them with varying success, such as peppermint shrimp or a copperband butterfly. Just keep in mind that any critters you use to fix the problem may eat corals as well, and will need to be fed after the little anemones are all eaten. (Try putting a single copperband in a quarantine tank along with the rock, if you don't want to put the fish in your main display. Maybe a friend or LFS who has a copperband will "lend" one to you for awhile. Just make sure your friend/LFS will accept the fish back afterwards. You don't want to kill him, just use his natural appetites to your benefit. At one point, the little bastards got so out of control, i had to set up a semi-permanent copperband tank. I rotated my rock through this tank for a few months until the problem was gone, then gave the fish to a friend with a bigger tank. I benefitted, and the fish got some good food out of the deal! I've never seen copperbands so healthy and fat!)

6: siphon them off the rock. (this only works if they can't retreat into a crack) Try attaching a toothpick to the end of the siphon hose with a rubber band. Use the toothpick to dislodge the anemones.

7:Remove the rock from the tank and use a battery attached to two wires. (a 9V works well) Zap away! (this causes the water inside their little bodies to boil and to break up into hydrogen and oxygen. This will kill almost any small invert. DO NOT USE ANYTHING LARGER THAN A 9V... YOU WILL REGRET IT! (they might explode)

Remember: Aiptasias can regenerate from a single cell, so if you grind one up inside the tank, you just created hundred or even thousands more aiptasias. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PHYSICALLY DESTROY THEM INSIDE THE TANK. USE CHEMICAL MEANS INSTEAD. Having said this, i also had some success with taking the rock out of the tank, and going to town with a small drill bit, followed by a freshwater rinse.

 

I found one on the LR I had just put in the tank.He had attached himself to a small rock and I just pulled the rock out and scraped him off with a knife. Keeping an eye out for more,and ordered some "Joe's Juice" just in case.