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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2004Do you know what this is ?
Guys, I bought a live rock from a local store last week. After a couple of days, I could see a bunch of red plant like stuff. I have attached pictures ( very poor quality though ). Can someone tell me what this is and any special care required for this ? ( like lighting, liquid food etc). URL: http://gopictures.com/hharan Thanks for your help. It's anemone of some sort. Hard to tell tho. I think it might be an aptesia anemone... yuck! Aptesia are generally thought of as pests because they will take over a tank. I am not really sure though. -Rick > Guys, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thanks for your help. It might also be a tube anemone, which is not a pest. :D here is a link to the tube, see if it's yours http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=23&pCatId=636 -Rick > It's anemone of some sort. Hard to tell tho. I think it might be an aptesia > anemone... yuck! Aptesia are generally thought of as pests because they will [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > Thanks for your help. Tube anemones has a soft tube of sand/silt like material running up to the head. They usually are buried in sand except for the head (as far as I know, none live ON rock). These are NOT tubes.... Some tubes are VERY pretty, but they WILL eat clowns (and ANYTHING else! Some clowns do not realise this... They are VERY pretty though! > It might also be a tube anemone, which is not a pest. :D > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > > > > > Thanks for your help. Definitely an aptasia. You don't want them in your tank. Marc > It's anemone of some sort. Hard to tell tho. I think it might be an aptesia > anemone... yuck! Aptesia are generally thought of as pests because they will [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > Thanks for your help. -- Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com So the tentacles aren't too long for aptesia? -Rick > Definitely an aptasia. You don't want them in your tank. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com > Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com Nope I got aptasia that have gotten that long before, and I am still battling them after 2 months now! Kill asap. > So the tentacles aren't too long for aptesia? > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com > > Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com > Nope I got aptasia that have gotten that long before, and I am still > battling them after 2 months now! Kill asap. Try this link regarding "Aiptasia" http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/anemonecare/a/aa100798.htm CapFusion,... No, they look like the ones in my son's tank. I bought some peppermint shrimp to eat the aptasia, and I think they ate my peppermint shrimp! :( Marc > So the tentacles aren't too long for aptesia? > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com > > Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com -- Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com Thanks for all the responses. I removed the rock from the aquarium. I could not see them in the other rocks. > No, they look like the ones in my son's tank. I bought some peppermint shrimp > to eat the aptasia, and I think they ate my peppermint shrimp! :( [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com > > > Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com You really must make sure it's dead before you put the rock back in the tank. Believe all the stories about these pests- they're extremely hard to get rid of once they start proliferating. > Thanks for all the responses. > I removed the rock from the aquarium. I could not see them in the other rocks. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > > > > > Marc I inject with vinegar every four or five days. Or at least I did until I got my peppermint shrimp and now he looks after them nicely. > You really must make sure it's dead before you put the rock back in > the tank. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Marc > I inject with vinegar every four or five days. Or at least I did until I got > my peppermint shrimp and now he looks after them nicely. I have hundreds (thousands ?) of them. I haven't seen my four peppermint shrimp in days. I realize that four shrimp (waiting for more at LFS) won't make a dent in my aiptasia population so I've tried: 1. Injecting them with lemon juice but had little success. (A) Hard to get the syringe "in" but not "through" on the smaller ones (B) Hard to work with ones that recede back into a hole in the rock (C) Amazingly enough some grew back even after doing it (what I though was)correctly. 2. Injecting with Kalk paste. (A) See 1A, 1C (B) Syringe clogs too easily. 3. "Feeding" them the Kalk paste. (A) Works OK as long as you get a good amount of kalk in 'em. (B) Dangerous when the aiptasia is next to something I want to keep. (C) Somehow some grow back- even after 90% of it has shrivelled. 4. Using "Joe's Juice". (A) This looks/acts like a thinner version of my Kalk paste attempt. (B) Seems to be safer (see 3B). (C) Somehow some grow back! Overall, "feeding them" Kalk or Joes Juice has worked the best, but I am still loosing the battle (for now). I have had BY FAR the best luck with sucking them off of the rock. At water-change time, I start a good siphon going with some 3/8 or half-inch tubing. Attach a length of hard plastic tubing to the flexible tubing, with the end of the hard tubing cut at a slight angle. Using this setup, suck them right off the rock. Once you have the body sucked into the tube, use the angled edge of the hard tubing to try to scrape as much as possible off the rock's surface - REALLY scrape it good. You have to kind of surprise them - if you give them a chance to retract against the rock, you'll never get them all. At the time I noticed them, I had 5 aiptasia's in my tank that came in on the LR. I sucked them all using the above method, and one came back. I did the same to him, and none have come back in 5 months. > > I inject with vinegar every four or five days. Or at least I did until I got > > my peppermint shrimp and now he looks after them nicely. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Overall, "feeding them" Kalk or Joes Juice has worked the best, but I > am still loosing the battle (for now). |
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