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I have several glass anenomes appearing in my live rock, any suggestions on how to get rid of them? I have tried squirting them w/ calcium and so far it has had little effect.
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| By calcium do you mean calcium hydroxide? If mixed stiff, the high pH will sometimes burn 'em up, but not always. Fact is I don't thing there is a sure fix. What I've had the best luck with is peppermint shrimp. 3 or so depending on the size of your tank (I've had as many as 20 in a 125g tank). Note that in order for them to be effective, you'll need to not feed the tank for a while. If other food is available they will choose to eat it rather than the aptaisia. Over a period of a couple of weeks they'll slowly disappear. Further note, if you're tank is still cycling, let that process complete before adding any livestock!
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Glass anemones easy to keep and hard to be rid of. If you make a paste with kalkwasser and then apply it to the glass anemones, it does remove them. Just make sure that you syphon any part out. You could get peppermint shrimp to help remove them. A few of my friends have done that and had great success with it. Just make sure your tank is fully cycled. BTW, do not try to scrape,cut or in any was damage them. It will make more.
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If you do the kalk paste trick (which works beautifully on other Cnidarian hitchhikers too by the way...I killed some nasty thimble jelly polyps with it) just do it outside the tank and let the rock sit for eight hours or so, washing it off thoroughly in tank water before putting the rock back in. The kalk paste can be dangerous if you put it in your tank, and wear gloves because it can be quite hazardous to your fingers as well. Another warning is that it will kill you coralline algae and anything else you like on the rock you treat too.
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I'll throw the idea of Joe's Juice out there. I've heard mixed review on it and mixed stories of success.
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 Thanks all for the tid-bits! @ the moment I am trying Kents Concentrated Calcium. I will try the peppermint shrimp. I have a 90 gl tank that's been up for several years. I just added a coral banded shrimp. I had a white striped cleaner that was nearing 4". He just disappeared a few days ago. Sad to lose him. The coral banded is about 1/2 the size so I don't think he had anything to do w/ it. Although I am questioning some of his tank mates.
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I really wouldn't add more shrimp to the tank with a coral banded shrimp in there...I personally suspect him in the death of the cleaner (despite the size difference).
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Thanks for the advice. I research everything before I place it in the aquarium & everything I've read on the coral banded is that they are fairly peaceful except for there own and may bother smaller shrimp. The cleaner was 2x its size. They even hung out together in the same area of the aquarium. Although you may be right in that it had something to do w/ the cleaners' demise, I figured they would be fine since there was such a size difference.
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