well, Im new here, not sure how much my experience matters, but for what its worth, here is what I did.
when I purchased a bunch of live rock from a guy it was covered with these red little flowery things that I thought were sooooooo keeyuteeeeee ! * eyeroll* I was soon to learn what this crap was as it was taking over my new reef.
I studied and read all the material I could find, I tried natural means, with peppermint shrimp and other so called predators....nothing.
I tried the acidic lemon juice method, also vinegar, joes juice et al.
they were impossible to pluck, and if you break one the vermin will spread all over.
the ONLY thing I found to work was to boil a pot of water, get a syringe and inject them. they would make a puff of smoke and that was it. I had one prolific bugger that was hard to get, but I am even more persistant...AND PATIENT !
I eventually cleaned out all my live rock, and now have NONE, and havent for several years.
when I purchased a bunch of live rock from a guy it was covered with these red little flowery things that I thought were sooooooo keeyuteeeeee ! * eyeroll* I was soon to learn what this crap was as it was taking over my new reef.
I studied and read all the material I could find, I tried natural means, with peppermint shrimp and other so called predators....nothing.
I tried the acidic lemon juice method, also vinegar, joes juice et al.
they were impossible to pluck, and if you break one the vermin will spread all over.
the ONLY thing I found to work was to boil a pot of water, get a syringe and inject them. they would make a puff of smoke and that was it. I had one prolific bugger that was hard to get, but I am even more persistant...AND PATIENT !
I eventually cleaned out all my live rock, and now have NONE, and havent for several years.
