swimming anemone

I just picked up some mexicana calupera from my LFS and thought I shook all the bad stuff out. You can tell by the title what went swimming by later on. I have a few aptaisia now, is this very bad?

 

KILL THEM

I believe it is a syringe with lemon juice that kills them?

 

that bad eh? but they are so cool swimming around

 

no there really bad, either nearly boiling hot water in a thing or lemon juice

 

Catch them if you can, will save you some headaches later on.

 

I found one in my tank and the guy at the lfs told me that peppermint shrimp will eat them. I got a couple shrimp and now it's gone.

 

If the aiptasia are in a refugium, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

peppermint shrimp will eat them if there's nothing else to eat. but if you got alot of em i'd try a different method so they don't get outta hand.

 

Aiptasia are bad bad things. I think i picked up some stuff from a nearby reef store, I took the LR that i had the aiptasia on, and treated it. Some white stuff that kinda looked like that wart remover stuff lol.


I just brushed it on those suckers and about a day later it had burnt them all off sure enough. It wasn't harmful at all to the LR or the tank by the way either. It went away the day after as well.

But, if all else fails I would just boil the sucker.