home remedies

does anyone have there own ORIGINAL, and REEF SAFE ways of irradicating aiptasia?

 

definitely not original, but lemon juice or boiling water seem to work for me.

 

Some interesting stuff on this thread,

http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/come-here-my-pretty-97125.html

 

corailline: i looked and that last one on the page looked good but i realized that my clown would be right there to eat it LOL that would have been bad.

i guess ill try lemon juice? do i just cut it up and juice it and its ready to go?

 

Honestly if the aiptasia is limited or isolated to one rock, I would remove the rock and kill the aiptasia that way.

 

I just pulled some lemon juice into a syringe and squirted out just enough to make it shrivel up and die. I have heard that lemon juice can lower your pH, but I never had a problem with it affecting my pH.

 

well its only an 8 gal with two rocks haha but thers probably 3-4 that i can see, and well if it lowers it ill do a water change.

 

i pulled the rock and super glued over the last one when he went in his hole.

 

its on a rock where my goby lives....litterally in the rock so i cant pull it out i hate when they retract themselves there so hard to get lol

 

boil some water then shoot it into the center of the aipstasia. works really well shoot it in with a turkey baster or some sort of needle