Etcool
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So tonight while looking at my tank I found a bunch of little white looking things with tentacles growing on my LR. After research I am sad to say that I was right and I believe they are Aiptasia.
The tank is a brand new JBJ 28G that has only had LR in it since Saturday. I bought 31 lbs. of cured live rock from a LFS and put it in my tank Saturday night.
This video shows one piece of my rock that has a few of them growing on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrhf0-V6tnI
So I know that I can treat this chemically by injecting products around them to kill them but they are very small and there are Tons of them on my rock. I don’t know if I could even find all of them to kill.
Second I know peppermint shrimp can sometimes eat small Aiptasia and that would work great but I have not even finished my nitrogen cycle yet so the shrimp will not work right now.
So will I just have to try to find all of them to inject or is there any better way out there? Any ideas at all are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and help
P.S. I don't know why two videos show up but they are both the same thing.
The tank is a brand new JBJ 28G that has only had LR in it since Saturday. I bought 31 lbs. of cured live rock from a LFS and put it in my tank Saturday night.
This video shows one piece of my rock that has a few of them growing on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrhf0-V6tnI
So I know that I can treat this chemically by injecting products around them to kill them but they are very small and there are Tons of them on my rock. I don’t know if I could even find all of them to kill.
Second I know peppermint shrimp can sometimes eat small Aiptasia and that would work great but I have not even finished my nitrogen cycle yet so the shrimp will not work right now.
So will I just have to try to find all of them to inject or is there any better way out there? Any ideas at all are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and help
P.S. I don't know why two videos show up but they are both the same thing.