I think i have aiptasia

I was looking at one of my rocks, and i found the tiniest thing that looks like clear/whitish tentacle type things. It's hard to explain what it looks like, but i tihnk it's aiptasia. When i was watching it, i noticed it quickly sucked into the white base that surounds it then came back out, this happened really fast. I've only seen this one and it's super tiny and in one of the worst spots possible to take a pic.

Since it doesn't look like it's spread, should i just leave it alone, for all i know it might not even be aipasia, but i think it is

 

well.. i have this filter feeder that i thought was aiptasia... take a better look at it... and maybe compare it to pics in google.

if it is, you can just take some lemon juice and shoot it with a .....syringe?
or joe's juice is known to be a great aiptasia remover. IMO its best to get rid of it now that its one because if not it can spread rather quickly.

i recomend that you do it before you get zoas because joe's juice can also kill zoas.

 

ok, i'll try to get a better look at it, it's just in such a bad spot. And thank's for the info about the lemon or joes juice. And thankfull it's not any where near the zoa rock, this thing is on the rock that the urchin was on, in my one thread

 

also does your filter feeder have a name, maybe i'll look up that to see if that's what it is

 

i found an aiptasia in my tank last night.. here is a picture of it.

 

doesn't look like mine, and mine's much smaller than yours, i honestly don't even know how i found it, but i somehow did

 

chances are, you have a filter feeder. i had the same thing. does the base looks like the white tubes below?

 

wonder if it is a very small feather duster.

 

not tubes, but just a small white circle, it's either coming out of the circle or right above it, it's hard to tell

 

When in doubt kill it. It is disgusting how fast they will take over your tank, and once they do they are very hard to ever completely get out. They will move into filters, overflows and tons of places you can't see. They will never stop sending out spores and a peppermint that eats them (if you manage to get one) will only mask the problem by keeping the ones in the DT out. I have several peppers in my tank now that I know eats them, but everytime something happens to my peppers I can tell in short order that my aptasia problem is coming strait back.