How to deal with iptazis?

Monica

Dear forum members, I need help in the fight against aiptasia! At first, I thought it was some cute creature living on the rocks. Now it is starting to take over the aquarium. There are several large individuals and many small ones! Please share your experiences! What methods have you used to get rid of aiptasia?

Caroline1599

Syringe, boiling water, and off to the weeding... there's no other way. Even if using products like Aiptasia-X refill, you still need to treat each one with a syringe... Here's the video:

Samuel6138

I'm already tired of removing them with boiling water. It's ineffective.

Joshua9847

...and what a nuisance it is, I started thinking something interesting was growing, then it spread all over the aquarium. In 2 weeks, one Wurdemanni shrimp cleaned out this mess completely. As of today, I have no aiptasia in my tank.

Leonard

The same situation!!! I tried to remove them from the rocks - it doesn't work. Those on the surface of the rocks come off easily, but those in the pores hide. I cleaned the aquarium a bit. My Ksenia is suffering a lot from them - it's a pity! On Monday, I will buy shrimp - I hope they will help!

William5838

no one will help better than Helmon

Leonard

I wonder who will help the helmon in the 58L aquarium?

Daniel4967

I have two of those shrimp, and apart from sitting under the stones, these not-so-cheap additions to the beer do nothing at all - moreover, I haven't even seen them crawling around the aquarium - they settled under one little stone and just crawl on it, and you can only see them at night... Helman is also a game of roulette; one will eat, while ten will ignore it, and this has already been mentioned in more than one thread and not just on this forum...

Joshua8425

Besides Helmon, they recommend AURIGA and Klein butterflies for the logo. I'm considering Klein for myself since Helmon "left" on the 4th-5th day, although it ate a couple of Aiptasia.

Lynn4242

Well, a properly fed helmon can stay in that volume for a month without any issues if it swims around. With the right approach.

Charles

Let's also consider that fish of this kind eat not only aphtasia but also all the good little bugs that inhabit the water. Therefore...

Melinda

and then what to do with him?

William

Pass the baton further. In a month, the apathy will come back, and it will be possible to return Helmon for a while.

Joseph6461

Yesterday, I counted the iphtasias on the stone with umbrellas. There were 4. Today there are 2, and the third one is barely alive... Wundermani rules!

Kathryn514

I will finish the topic! The Wondermuffin ate everything that was! Thanks everyone!!!

David4968

I also ate everything. And a month later, it died.

Alyssa1438

Offtopic Offtopic Well, it's time to erect a monument to her... and to carve an epitaph on the tombstone: "Selflessly fought against evil, Gave her life with honor... Now rest in peace, Hush, hush, bye-bye..."

Nicole2404

No way, I’m taking the livestock and bringing the pirate filth back with it...

Theresa5149

So the wunderkind are asking to go back to the aqua again...

Amber9312

I have a really interesting wonderman! It leaves one polyp for reproduction.

Angel628

Calculating wunderkind...

Daniel8015

The Wurdemann shrimp, a nocturnal inhabitant, is hard to spot during the day, but it does eat glass, that's a fact. Of course, the speed of eating leaves much to be desired, but a stable eating dynamic is also good.

Kimberly2102

I can share my experience! So first I took a syringe and boiled water for the aiptasia. It was not very effective! And it's impossible to get rid of it. I bought a wünderbar and noticed something interesting: I just poke and prod with the syringe... The aiptasia releases mucus that the wünderbar seems to sense, it comes out with the rocks and eats like crazy. After that, in just a couple of nights, almost everything disappeared. Knock on wood.

John3335

Did the umbrellas or something else from the wonderland not eat in the aquarium?

Joe

There were attempts to take a bite! But it doesn't touch me.