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    are these aptesia?

    Not sure if you can call this an emergency but it will be if these things are what i think they are and they spread.If they are i have been told the best thing is to get a peppermint shrimp so were would be the best place to get one from? thanks guys

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    Re: are these aptesia?

    yes it is aiptasia m8 and you could try a couple of Peppermint Shrimps but i never found them to be any good, i ended up getting a pearlscale butterfly fish which did it for me, or you could try some of uncle joe's lemon juice but you need to get this in its mouth

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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Thanks gary at the mo they are tiny and a shop near me as a shrimp being as they are to small for anything else i will try that first its a shame but i dont think my tank is big enough for a butterfly fish
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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Yes those aps m8. Peppermint shrimps work fine, the problem is most pet shops dont sell true Lysmata wurdemanni. Really hard to tell do a net search loads of info about. Basic its body is not very bright more transparent and no white stripes. You need a good shop to sell the right ones.

    http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/inv...kpeppermin.htm

    I did have one that liked aps but i found him dead yesterday in my sink , i had a clear out he must have been in a piece of rock hiding.

    If you want to buy mail order Fishmans Frags sells the proper ones.
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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Other way is to just kill them lost, again net search cos there's loads of ways. Ones i have killed about 50% have come back to life.

    Boiling water
    Lemon juice
    Kalk mix
    Hot blade

    All worked but some came back.

    Milliput over them if i can get to them to do that i find best way
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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Thanks guys you have been a great help, the story so far got to the shop and asked for a peppermint shrimp only to be shown one that was a humped back not much differenceso no shrimpmy daughter works near a fish shop she is going to ask in there for me tomorrow, plus while i was out some scraped the front of my car.I spent a freezeing afternoon trying to tcut the scratches out i have had one one of thoes days

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    Ouch unlucky lost on the upside the lighting you have on your tank looks good in the picture
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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Thanks mate its a 24" blue/white t5, riped out the old one it was no were near big enough.It looks ok its just a nightmare trying to get the lr to look nice not my best point

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    Re: are these aptesia?

    iv found with aiptasia in the past that they always have a back way out of a rock, you think you have got them only to find them come back out of another hole in the rock :worm:

    as timo says Fishmans Frags are a good place to try as i know anne gets alot of stuff off him........good luck with it m8 and sorry to hesr about your car.

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    Re: are these aptesia?

    Np thanks gary it was not as bad as it sounded most of it i managed to tcut out.Anyway the shop is going to order me a shrimp as they are out of stock at the mo.Thank you again guys for all your help, thoes aptesia dont half spread fast

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