My War on Aptasia: Help from Filefish

[alienspacepirate]

I am still wondering if 'cooking' the live rock would kill aiptasia or just make it go nuts. When summer comes on full force I may give it a try with my rocks.

[ErikH]

scrub then add peps.

[profntbtr]

no i wholeheartedly endorse the blowtorch method. it works awesomely with no recurrence if you do it right. and it smells like oysterbake

[Regric25]

no i wholeheartedly endorse the blowtorch method. it works awesomely with no recurrence if you do it right. and it smells like oysterbake

LMAO! I didnt think you could really do that!

[robalv]

It does work and it turns your rock black if you leave the torch in one place a little too long..
You could get a MAPP GAS torch from a plumbing warehouse or something.. I have a Acetylene and Oxygen set up ... burn you little B@$!@&^^#....lol

[SKNR]

Thanks for all the advice:

Just an update, stayed up too late on thursday thinking of my tank and what has gone wrong with it, but in doing so I was able to look at my tank with the lights off. I dont have 4 peps I have 6 large peps that I think have been eating too many leftovers from the fish. Last night and tonight I more or less hand fed or turkey baster feed the fish. It was more of a squirt let them eat, once food was gone gave them a little more, instead of letting the food thaw then throwing in the tank.

Did not do a water change but will do it tomorrow.

I like the torch Idea but some of the rocks are way too big to pull out of the tank. Thinking of doing a scrub with a toothbrush and then use the torch to get anything that was left behind.

No change in the way the tank looks :(
One aptasia killing at a time

JT might take you up on the Kalk offer, I looked at two Walmarts and Targets looking for pickling lime but could not find any, anyone know where to get some in SA?

[Mike]

Is the file fish helping? I know when we had some larger ones, the peppermints we had wouldn't eat them. I think they were afraid of getting eaten themselves. Our copperband cleaned them out of the FOWLR (before it started leaking :() He is in our temp holding tank until I know what to do. I have heard mixed reviews of keeping the in coral tanks. Good luck