AIPTASIA? - PIXTURES ADDED!

[SuperXdude]

Can't get a pic, and my hands are too oily from work to reach into tank.

I've washed them 3 times and still don't trust them.

It's a ghostlike and way in the back of my tank.

I can't get a picture, because I have to use a mirror to get even
a half decent look at it.


If someone has sample pics of Aiptasia, and I am sure there are 324 kazllion kinds, please post a few.


thanks


SuperX

[SuperXdude]

uploading pix to server

it's attached to an old turbo snail shell.

I have not added anything rock like recently.

Other things I have had lately are a blue linkia star (KIA) and a green something anemone.

Last rock was in Sep 2003.

Wife wants to keep him until y'all say he's bad, so please say he's bad.

I'm freaking out here! (no not really)


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SuperX

[bprewit]

I have no clue as to what type that is but I hope someone does as I found a tiny one that looked exactly like that one in my tank a few weeks ago. I havent added anything to the tank in months but one day saw the little guy and unfortunatly I yanked and tossed him. Wish I hadnt but I did!

[Ram_Puppy]

again, I am a newb, but pictures of Aiptasia I have seen, and the few I have seen in real life are a clear 'brownish' color, and have a long, um, wha tis it called, column? this appears squat, whiteish, clear, and I can't make out much of a column. Also, if memory serves, Aiptasia have a quite large oral disc for their size, i.e. a large disc with rows of tentacles all around it... of course, I could be wrong...

here is a pic of the little buggers I grabbed off the first hit in google.

http://www.aquarium.net/inverts/anemone/aiptasia.jpg

[AlienAnchovies]

dude yea, thats an aptasia. last year i had bought some shrooms and i saw that exact same thing, at first i was all "oh wow check that out" next thing i knew i had those demon spawn all over my rock, ive been able to keep them down to 6 or 7 but theyre a pain in the you know what when they decide to go all nutty reproducing

btw who was it that was breeding berghia (sp) and where can i get 1 or 2 for under $20

[brewercm]

Larry (Instar) was looking at breeding them, not sure if he's had any success yet. I know he was looking for aptasia a while back for feeding purposes. Wish I didn't live so far away from him, I have plenty.

[Sherri]

I have a peppermint shrimp that has TOTALLY eliminated all my aiptasia. I do not have any at all & have been free for about 5 months now.

[Instar]

Peppermint shrimp eat too much other stuff for my tanks.

I have lots of baby berghias.

Brewercm, I'll drive to your place. Who knows, I may need the aiptasia. Shoot, Bandera is not far, R.Allard's place is far and I'd go there!

[brewercm]

Is there a way to remove them where I could still get them to you. All of mine appear to be on rocks that my corals are attached to. Some of these suckers have gotten pretty large and I was thinking about shooting them in the mouth with kalk paste and see what happens.

[Sherri]

Larry...What other things do peppermint shrimp bother? Now you have me curious...

[Andrew]

I had peppermints do a pretty good job on aiptasia, but they also devoured 3 dozen small button polyps in a matter of days.

I've also had pretty good results with joe's juice, just make sure they actually eat the stuff before closing up.

Andrew

[SuperXdude]

offending element removed and is now enjoying sunny texas weather
on my front lawn...


Don't tell the Aiptasia police!

[Sherri]

I haven't noticed any other damage from my peppermint except him picking at my sand sifting starfish which I think had been attacked by a hijacker crab. Setting a crab/shrimp trap tonight. Ended up losing my starfish I've had almost a year.

Glad to see your prob solved, SuperX...

[SuperXdude]

If he is the only one in the tank...


X

[Instar]

Sherri, I've had the peppermints eat yellow polyps, montipora digitata polyps (although the montis didn't seem to care), Tubastrea coral and killed it, a medium Sebae anemone, killed it, tunicates all devoured from the entire tank, star polyps aggrivated and picked at, cucumbers picked at until dead. Basically anything thats soft or anything they can stick pinchers into the mouth of and rip the guts out of it. That means all LPS with individual polyps are subject and all anemone polyp type animals. Not sure what they would do with brains but after watching them kill so many things I decided that they had their place for cleaning aiptasia but this would have to be done in another tank or in my sump. The peppermints also ate all of my feather caulerpa in another tank. Definitely will NOT be in any other community tank I have or in my macro refugiums.

Brewercm, sometimes you can poke the base of the aiptasia and get them to let go. I use a sharp tip stainless steel forcep to do that and it works pretty well. And then they become Berghia food. That part I enjoy.

[Sherri]

Thanks Larry...haven't seen in other damage to anything else yet...but since I don't have anymore aiptasia, guess he'll start looking elsewhere...guess if he's the one I trap tonight...he'll be going to the Q tank until someone else needs/wants one or whatever...he was definitely munching big time on my injured starfish.

[JesterGrin_1]

Okay can anyone give me the low down on the majano ones? I got a rock from Joshua that had several Aiptasia and within a couple of days they were gone I think from my peppermint shrimp but they will not touch the other Aiptasia so I think they must be the Majano ones.