aiptasia?

[ReefOne]

I got some stuff from Blue Life @ MACNA called Aiptasia control. This stuff is AWESOME!!! It's like a thick kalk like solution that you squeeze onto the mouth of the Aiptasia and it literally melts these things. The best stuff ever! HTH

Ram

[jtxstate]

ya, i tried the blue life stuff, but they keep coming back. i would kill all the suckers i could with that stuff but a week later, they would be back with avengence!

[GaryP]

Instar made the comment to me once that the best thing that ever happened to his berghis business is the chemical products. They may kill a colony, but cells from the colony are released into the water. Certainly types of these cells can develop into more colinies. So, its sort like sowing weed seeds when you mow the weeds down.

[jrhein]

If you were to take the rock out tank and let it sit out and dry out for weeks, wouldn't it die off completely?

[GaryP]

Probably, but so will everything else. It'll no longer be "live rock," just a chunk of old coral. That'll work good until the next time you put something in there that has an aiptasia hitchhiker, or there is a small colony you can't see in the tank that wasn't on the rock that re-populates the tank.

[jrhein]

Thats what i thought. But if you only have a few of them on a few different pieces of rock you could trouble shoot that way. Then put first the dry rock into the sump to make it live again. ??? Just a thought. Never really had a problem on it. I have noticed my two in my tank. I used joes juice and now there gone.

[GaryP]

You only thingk you have a few of them. Most people find that there are more then they thought. There are some on the rock or other places that you can't see or are so small you don't know they are there.