Aiptasia is a sort of a reciprocal Coelenterata from the
Anthozoa class. Most saltwater aquarium owners have to deal with the Aiptasia
anemone. Most stories of Aiptasia beginning are found similar. Unexpectedly, a
new little anemone is marked on a newly added piece of live rock or live coral piece,
just an innocent, small and sometimes attractive new anemone.
But soon that innocent and small one becomes two, five, twenty
and then many more. They are stressful to about all kinds of coral around them;
even they can sting fish and look for invertebrates to kill to eat. Yes, it’s
unbelievable but truly if the Aiptasia is kept untreated then they’ll take over
your aquarium within very short time and alike a monsters form ancient story
they’ll eat all living things they find in your aquarium to survive.
So, it’s no wonder if you don’t take proper action against
the Aiptasia then it’s possible that you’ll lose about everything those are
inhabitants of your aquarium, only Aiptasia will stay.
I think there’s no need to talk more about the need of
Aiptasia removal, as if you don’t remove them timely and properly they’ll
remove all living stuffs from your aquarium.
Saltwater and reef aquariums are more vulnerable to Aiptasia
attack than freshwater aquariums.
Now, let’s head to the process of Aiptasia removal. In order
to remove something from a place it’s a must to know what exactly to remove? So,
identifying Aiptasia is the most important thing at very first.
There are 17 accepted species of Apitasia 4 among them are
found commonly than others. Whichever the Aiptasia is, they are equally harmful.
All kind of Aiptasia are shaped like miniature of a palm tree, with a polyp
body (the coelenteron) up to 5 cm (2 inches) in length and an oral disc up to 2
cm (3/4 inches) thoroughly surrounded by a mixture of a few long and many short
tentacles located in thin rings on the outer margin of the oral disc. The
tentacles are long slim lips that form sharp points at their ends.
4 species of Aiptasia are found commonly in aquariums now
days.
- Aiptasia Pallida : Brown Glass Anemone, Pale Anemone
- Aiptasia Pulchella : Glass Anemone
- Aiptasia Diaphana : Small Rock Anemone
- Aiptasia Mutabilis : Rock Anemone, Trumpet Anemone
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| All Common Aiptasia |
Truly as their names (Aiptasia means beautiful) Aiptasia
looks beautiful, Aiptasia have developed to be survivors. They breed both sexually and asexually, and
are capable of regenerating and entire creature from a single cell. In addition, they are heavily equipped with
arms to kill!
When Aiptasia are bothered, either by a passing fish or
invertebrate they eject some kind of dangerous white harsh threads called Acontia
that contain poisonous cells named nematocyst.
Nematocysts are capable of bringing a potent wound that can cause tissue
recession in sessile corals, immobilize prey, and even kill unlucky crabs, corals,
snails or fishes.
How to get rid of Aiptasia?
Till today there are couples of ways followed by people to
get rid of Aiptasia from their aquarium. We may classify them into Mechanical,
Biological and Chemical procedures.
Mechanical Process: If Aiptasia can be found in very early
stage when there are no more than 10 Aiptasia grown in the system once people
used to follow this process. The process is very simple; pick up the live rock
or piece of coral on which Aiptasia grown up. Bring it out of the aquarium and rub
out the Aiptasia very carefully from that piece. You should be carefull because
if some single cells of Aiptasia remains in the piece and you put that back in
the system after a few weeks there may be numerous Aiptasia from those cells.
This method is not suggested to follow now days. You may only try this no
expense method if you are sure that you’ll activate the Biological method just immediately
after Mechanical process. As the Aiptasia which will grow later they’ll be baby
and will be easier meal to the Aiptasia eaters to eat.
Biological Process: There are some natural cures to prevent
Aiptasia best one among them is adding some Lysmata wurdemanni aka Peppermint Shrimps
to the system as they eat Aiptasia. They’ll become successful if there are low
numbers of Aiptasia. If Aiptasia grown high in number and made their own way to
survive as they are superior survivors then the Biological method will also
fail.
Chemical Process: This is the full and final method which
you can follow anytime without any hesitation, you just need to follow the
instructions to use the chemical solution properly. Ultralife has developed a
very special product to fight Aiptasia & Majano only. This product is
developed for the specific purpose and it’s the best available stuff to fight with
Aiptasia properly. Find the product at Ultralife Aiptasia & Majano Remover
Finally, beware of Aiptasia, never fall weak seeing their
primary innocent beautiful look. Wish you best of luck to win against such
killers who can destroy your beloved aquarium suddenly.
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