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01-31-2001, 04:32 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Posts: 30
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Brown Anemones
Brown Anemones, three of them, are on my live rock. There was originally one, but they have now spread. Since there are so few, I think I can control it, but I need to know how. Help!!!!!!!!!!
Help, please.
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01-31-2001, 07:40 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: B.R. , LA U.S.
Posts: 21
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I was told pepermint shrimp will consume your aiptasia problem . Good luck |
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01-31-2001, 08:58 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
Posts: 25,141
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I added 3 to my 75 and all the little aptasia are gone 
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I dont advocate holding marine creatures for ransom but......since you asked 
Doug, plank owner |
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01-31-2001, 09:51 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: B.R. , LA U.S.
Posts: 21
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Hey Doug what do they eat after the aiptasia is gone ?
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02-01-2001, 01:34 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 100
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The peppermint will basically eat anything you put in the tank. Flake, frozen, anything.
One little note, though. When you put your peppermint in, do not feed it. When you feed the tank, only feed what's necessary. If your peppermint isn't hungry, it will not eat your aptasia.
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02-01-2001, 05:59 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: TN, USA
Posts: 9,692
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Duke,
Joaco has an excellent page for info about Aiptasia and removal methods.
http://www.wyx.com/iheo/tank/aiptasia.htm
If you get a Peppermint, be sure to get the Lysmata wurdemanni, this one:
Rynchocinetes uritai, Camelback shrimp, are often sold as Peppermints but these will eat corals instead of Aiptasia! 
I used one L. wurdemanni to rid my 55 of the pests.
HTH
Dick
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02-01-2001, 10:20 AM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
Posts: 15,170
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I had 2 large L.wurdemanni shrimp in the 180 until my female bird wrasse got to be large enough to aquire a taste for shrimp cocktails... this may be a coincidence, but up until the wrasse consumed the shrimp, I could never get xenia to take hold in the 180, although they did fine in the prop tank (where has become a weed...) When the shrimp disappeared, suddenly xenia took off in the 180... ...HHHHmmmmmmm... ...the other side to this is that a small aiptasia has appeared on a new piece of LR in the 180 as well, I may be removing the bird wrasse and getting some new shrimp.
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02-01-2001, 08:13 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Posts: 30
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Thanks a lot everyone! I think I'll add a peppermint shrimp. Does this shrimp get along with Fire Shrimp or Cleaner Shrimp? |
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02-01-2001, 08:26 PM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Just South Of Seattle
Posts: 10,496
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All your shrimp should get along just fine. Make sure you get at least two peppermints; three or four would be best. They are more comfortable in a group.
~Alice
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Reefkeeping is my life; I can't afford a hobby too!
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02-03-2001, 01:04 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Bremerton Washington
Posts: 115
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Or you can do like I did tonight for 3 hours I went after them in my wifes tank with boiling water and a TB needle. I would wait till they came out and inject them with boiling water. MUHAHAHAHAH I am so mean. But I hate them grin
Lilolme
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