What is it and how bad is it?!

[Mr V]

Today I notice that these 'anemones' appear alot in my tank. I know they're bad, but how bad? And how to get rid of them? Pls help.

 

[evad1]

a few pepperment shrimp should take care of them

 

[Digitalfreq]

It's aiptasia

 

[lowbudget]

they are called aptasia, very evasive. if you have a few i recommend cutting them off the rock remove around 1x1x1 hoping you get the compete footing. if not then i would go with peppermint shrimp if you dont have any fish that eats shrimp. the way to find out is put a few in there hahahahah,

 

[Mr V]

Will get some peppermint shrimp asap! How many shrimp should I get for a 20 gallon tank. I have a fire shrimp and a cleaner shrimp already.

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[evad1]

for that small of tank try 2 at first.

 

[Six2seven]

I would get rid of it ASAP before it spreads. People see a few and dont do anything about it until it looks like this and becomes depressing.

 

[Mr V]

I would get rid of it ASAP before it spreads. People see a few and dont do anything about it until it looks like this and becomes depressing.

Oh, wow. I wish it has blue and red in color! Lol


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[JDEllis]

Start with two peppermints, max of four for that tank....or even a filefish also will work, they are both fairly cheap....joes juice also seems to do the trick.

 

[DeadCalm]

See if Chad over at Coral Gazers has some in stock. I bought three from him and they removed all of mine.

 

[Justkeepswimming]

My paper mint shrimp were eating my snails and not the aptasia, I would go for a file fish. I put one in and two days later all my problems were fixed! And they look cool cruzin around the tank staring at rocks looking for food.

 

[SchnitzelReef]

I put 3 in my 30g frag tank and they chowed on the aptasia I had in there. I only have one fish in my frag tank, so I don't feed that much. I think that might help too. If they're hungry, they will go after the aptasia.


Hot Dogs are GOOD!

 

[Mr V]

I google some info about aptasia and saw someways to get rid of them, one of then is using syringe with boiling water. What do you guy think?
I read some bad folks about pepperment shrimp.

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[Six2seven]

be careful with boiling water. if you zap some zoos by mistake you might inhale some toxins, requiring a trip to the E.D.

 

[Reef Finders]

Full tank of aptasia = Game over. Buy peppermint shrimp or aptasia X.