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Red Sea - Aiptasia X

Discussion in 'Product Reviews' started by Anthony, Nov 13, 2008.

  1. Anthony

    Anthony Thread Starter Active Member

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    After purchasing two live rock that has several Aiptasia on them I started looking for ways to remove them. I literally removed two with tweezers while in a freshwater bucket. The others were too far in crevices that the tweezers wouldn't remove them. I tried lemon juice on those. It worked on 1 of them but left two unharmed. Red Sea came out with a new product several months ago called Aiptasia X. When I was at my LFS picking up an order I noticed they just got it in with their shipment. I bought a bottle and tried it. It worked great ! The anemones were killed within minutes. Here's a video demo of what it does.

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    I got some of this when i picked up my new live rock today and tried it out on the 3 aiptasia I had on the other live rock I already had in the tank. As soon as i put it on their mouth/tentacle area they started to shrink right down and within minutes were completely gone! Love it!
     
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    Anthony Thread Starter Active Member

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    Did you see them implode ? I thought that was pretty cool. :)
     
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    Yea! I've heard the stuff worked, but with new stuff I always have my doubts...but wow! I can't believe it worked that quickly! Thank you Anthony for suggesting it in one of our convos on here in another topic!
     
    NoctuVide, Jan 8, 2009
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    No problem. ;)
     
    Anthony, Jan 8, 2009
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