restart

[pfcreed]

Have any of you had to do a restart due to aptasia, Im weighing my options and im thinking I have just to much of it to really be cured by peppermints. I only have a hand full of coral frags and I can easily set up a 20 gal tank for them. and I only have about 6 fish and none of them are bigger then my clowns. The fish im worried about are my green spotted goby and my carpet anemone.

[hobogato]

you would be surprised at what those peps will do. i had an infestation in my 250 and decided to try peps. i added about 30 of them, and they took care of them in a matter of weeks.

[pfcreed]

was it really bad and wide spread I have it on every single rock and they are huge.

[hobogato]

yep, very much an infestation. the only issue may be the large ones. you may have to use kalk paste or aiptasia x on them

[Milly]

You might laugh, but I swear by this method for big ones. Get a coffee cup with tap water. Nuke it in the microwave until its boiling. And I mean boiling even AFTER you take it out. Then get a syringe with a fine point or a needle and just spray the heck out of the aptasia. They melt pretty quick if the water is hot enough. I would do this with my 75g and it worked great

[Big_Pun]

I agree with milly, just melt then away. 70cc syringe works best

[Milly]

I can get you a syringe from work if you want. We have 35cc and 60cc

[rrasco]

I heard injecting lemon juice was effective too. Of course, if you have the money, and time, you can get a 1w laser and melt them too. That's extremely dangerous though; FYI.

[ktipp]

I used two Peppermint shrimp...they work as long as the Aptasia is smaller than the shrimp.

[Pennies2Cents]

Peps work great, especially the ones that we brought back from the coast, when we went collecting on the jettys for the Maast Trip.