Major apitasia....hundreds!

I just got an indipendant study course (get to pick a hands on research project and play with it) for 2 units in my Marine Biology course. Ive been handed over to a 90 with nothing but LR and apitasia, sand, glass, rocks smothered. Ive dealt with these alot (killed most in a tank with a coulpe hundred) for work/customers but never in this density. Anyone have any nuke tactics if there are no fish /coral to harm? That or ive got many hours of playing with needles......thanks guys/gals. BTW the setup is nice, 3 phs on a programable wave maker/timer and a euroreef skimmer, and a healthy dosage of PC. I want to get the tank up and running by the end of the semester with afew softies and 2 fish.....so i need to eradicate these lil buggers asap and get the water back in check after the ap holocaust.

 

A gallon jug of joes juice!

 

What about crankin the heat or lowering it to an extreme? Is there anything else in the tank that would suffer from that?

 

THe micro-fauna....? Its a very mature system that hasnt changed in over 4 years....no fish nothing.....I think im going to need alot of juice, I think im going to try remoing the very large rocks and placing them in tubs and injecting them for a few hours.....its going to take at least afew weeks to get rid of all the big ones. I dont need to eliminate em just get them under a managable number so i can add corals....This is going to suck.....

 

Re: Major aiptasia....hundreds!

Well, i began the extermination today with good sucess, killinhg off more than 1/3 of em with about 10 cc's total of Stop Aiptasia. I just hope i can get all the left overs out before they fowl the water too much....

 

2 things...
1. May I ask, who's tank was this?

2. Good luck. If you lived in Michigan, I would help ya out!

 

This sound like a job for those apitaisia eating nudibrachs!!! That or a Emporer Angel since there is nothing in the tank

 

no peppermint shrimps?

 

cooperbands eat them ;D

 

The mechnical methods will never work because you will never get that many little ones. Any pics?