Aiptasia help (1 Viewer)

[ITreefer]

Nice. Frank actually has been texting me and my order is already shipped. Talk about customer service!

Any tips on how to use it best?

Yep. Turn all flow off and get to work covering the aiptasia. I usually keep the flow off for about 45 minutes to an hour after applying it. It will harden and then you can scrape it off and use a turkey baster to suck everything up.
I doubt there are any viable spores after it has hardened, so you could probably just scrape it off and not worry about sucking it out.

 

[Reefahholic]

I just took 5 rocks out (with corals on them) and torched about 5-6 Aiptasia that were on those rocks. Then I rinsed the area off with RO water and put the rocks back in the tank. I have 3 more left. No coral fatalities yet. So far so good.

 

[Tenny]

Went home at lunch to let the dog out (been working long hours... Estimating about 76 hours this week!) and the F-Aiptasia arrived! Hoping I'll be able to try it tonight... worst case tomorrow night I'll get it in. It doesn't mention sucking it out at all in the directions, but I do think that is best practice.



(I bought the PH calibration packets to get free shipping... they are always useful anyways)

 

[Reefahholic]

Let me know. Interested to hear if it works. I'm not using the Aiptasia-X. Another reefer talk me out of it. He swore up and down that it is absolute snake oil.

There's other ways to rid them, but I don't want to risk anything crazy in my tank. Acro's might RTN.

The ones I torched are gone. No signs of body parts. lol

I have 3 more small ones. I think the key is to NUKE them as soon as you see them. You can procrastinate long...especially if your NO3/PO4 is high.

I'll be torching the last 3 when I get a few days off.

 

[Tenny]

Let me know. Interested to hear if it works. I'm not using the Aiptasia-X. Another reefer talk me out of it. He swore up and down that it is absolute snake oil.

There's other ways to rid them, but I don't want to risk anything crazy in my tank. Acro's might RTN.

The ones I torched are gone. No signs of body parts. lol

I have 3 more small ones. I think the key is to NUKE them as soon as you see them. You can procrastinate long...especially if your NO3/PO4 is high.

I'll be torching the last 3 when I get a few days off.

Yeah I think staying on top of it is the most important thing. Im not sure if the x caused them to spread faster or not.... When I did it a lot there was barely any but then I stopped trying and they exploded into tons.