Nice video I inherited a well stablished 40 gallons with live rock and 3 clown fish, the tank has been set up close to 20 years and North Dallas Aquarium was doing biweekly maintenance with the previous owner. However it has quite a bit of apitasia on the rocks. I have started using apitasiaX but this look much more convenient and in the long run less expensive. I starting the hobby once again so I am a bit rusty since it has been quite a long time since I had a saltwater tank. Also I am the Metroplex from Sachse. Thank you for the video you have great looking tanks!!!
Oh...so you can do this by zapping it outside of the water. That's so convenient! Everything I've been researching you have to do it from in the water. Thanks for this info.
Absolutely beautiful! Anemones and Clownfish; two of my favs. As far as the bubbletip you refer to as "long and stringy", I must say I think it's flowing tentacles are beautiful. The flowing motion of the anemones are in great part the beauty of that tank IMHO.
This was an absolutely fascinating video. I actually got out of saltwater keeping because of aiptasia and green hair algae that I simply could not get under control no matter what I tried. This has given me hope that I could go back to keeping a reef, because I loved it and miss it, I just felt I wasn’t skilled enough.
Didn't even make it 10 minutes and was on Ebay finding a US seller of these. Got 1 on the way. Thanks Melev! And fuck aiptasia. Now I just need a flood lamp for Cyano
Green laser light is absorbed by hemoglobin, that's why we use that color in the operating room . in the retina has a lot of blood vessels filled with hemoglobin and will blind you very quickly
Be aware, if the aiptatia are white or very lite in color, like those sometimes found in the overflow, the laser may have little to no affect. The same results can be observed when burning papers of different colors. Dark=quick burn. Liter=slow burn. Tried it on my hand with the beam at its widest and was able to maintain a longer contact time with my palm than with the back of my hand. That being said, it may be smart to wear a longs leaved white-T as part of laser PPE.
Your video description says 5 miliwatts, but you meant 5 watt or 5000 miliwatts as you say in the video. I have a 3 watt and it works great. Focusing tip is the key!
Honestly, that part is a little confusing to me. The specs are in the link I provided, so feel free to take a look and give me your thoughts. 5000mw is what I'm seeing. The one from 3 years ago was 1200mw.
Hey Mark, nice video as always. I must say in my case peppermint shrimp did the job in about days. I have a 180g display and aiptasia was spreading. I first started using Red Sea's AiptasiaX but everyone I zapped seemed to multiply to 6 in the next week. I added 3 peppermint and they did about nothing. I bought another 10 (a couple of them good sized) and the next week I was Aiptasia free 🤗🤗🤗. Laser is cool though 😊
Bought them on Ebay, the only problem is they keep coming back it doesn’t kill them. If you have a couple the laser works but if you have a lot like me it takes to long to keep burning them. I ended up buying fish that eats them
I only know that I've had two lasers so far, and both were blue spectrum. This one is more powerful that the last one, and works better. After uploading the video, I zapped one that was 18" from the front glass and was able to make it shrivel up too. :)
Had a green one and it worked fine until I dropped in the case with the batteries left in and ruined the lens. Luckily, it quickly burned through the black foam to the metal case or things could have gone very wrong!
I have the same laser as your second one. Do you still use it? Mine seems to have gotten weak. I got news batteries but didn't really help. I was hearing the aiptasia popping and cracking before ,now much. Just curious.
We bought two laser for 83 bucks from the same guy. He gave a better deal for two. Plus I could go for twice as long having an extra laser. I killed every single one (over 100) in my 350 gallon tank in one night. It was fun! Also before you put the batteries in make sure you have the glasses on. Incase it’s on. Gloves help too, I felt the burning on my hang once coming back through the glass. It was just a quick ouch so I didn’t put any on. Focusing the laser would be hard with gloves is the other problem.
Amazing. The Anemone tank still looks great! I hope mine gets big. Do you feed them anything> I hear people saying to feed them shrimp and some say nothing but just light. IDK.
Is this a method for control or can you eradicate aptasia with this method. I have a couple in my QT tank on some corals that I would like to prevent from getting in my display tank for as long as I can. Although with this method I’m more likely to treat them and keep my hands out of the water. Thanks
You want to make sure that the glasses have the wavelength etched into them. The red ones that come with your home depot laser level are so you can see the laser more clearly... Yes they are about $40...
Hello new here, and beginner... so do these “pest” “hitchhikers “ only start growing in live rock? If I get a salt water tank will I get them? manjanos too?
Wondering if there's any other brands you've seen since making this video(possibly newer model with longer battery life, or atleast some info on the model you were using...since link no longer works).Be interested in grabbing one as well, unfortunately I'm 2 years to late ☹
I bought three burghia nudibranchs the other day. They eat smaller aptasia and will multuply rapidly in the matter of months. Something for anyone to consider if they have a consistant problem with them.
I bought them once, put them in my tank and never saw them again. Let us know how yours work out. Your plan sounds good, but the reality of that happening isn't guaranteed.
melevsreef Here's for hoping. 😁 They ate three aptasia while in the cup I bought them in while I was waiting for lights out and the melanurus wrasse to plant himself for the night. They were moving quick once I installed them.
This tank has a Radion Gen2 over it. I have a newer Radion on hand, I just have to swap it out, detect it via Reeflink, program the lighting period and spectrums, etc...
Of course it’s all anecdotal info. But my rose BTA has long tenticals if I have more flow like you. When tentacles sway. If I have very low flow then it bubbles up. Like almost no flow.
@melevsreef i seen you say that over 5yrs ago lol I figured now with time you'd 100% know lol. Thanks for the fast reply, buying a higher power one now!
Hi. Could you confirm the laser wattage. In your original video 3 years ago you said the laser was 1200mw at time 5.29. That would mean it is a 1.2 watt laser. These lasers from China are showing up as milliwatts are they mislabelled to avoid restrictions? I have been watching a few vids and most say you need 1 watt plus to burn these effectively. Going on that i have ordered a 3 watt laser, just waiting for it to arrive. This is however a great vid and very useful. Thanks
Link is now dead. I just got my laser and it appears DOA. Ebay noted that the listing has been removed but gives no reason behind it. I'll update if I get laser to work. Marc, does the charger just stay lit green while charging?
isn't it true that as soon as you stress them they spit out spores from their mouth disc? Did u notice any of this? Other remedies state to start treating at the mouth disk, do you agree?
I discussed that, no I didn't encounter that issue. I prefer to burn off the tentacles first, so they can't capture food in the future, and then cook the body.
Tried the link and have no joy( im in london ,not sure if that makes a difference ) , please can you re check link or may i have the name or any other contact details ..cheers love your presentations ...
Thank you ..are you really happy with the Lazer ? , if so , can you please recommend another supplier perhaps ?? I have been using Red Sea Aptasia X , but struggle to get to the bottom of my 36 inch Aquarium where the big ones are ..
Hi.I am new to Reef Tanks.At 4:42 there is a snake like thing.What is this because I have same in my tank and do not know if it is normal.Are they harmless?
You have a typo in your description. 1W = 1000mW. Your new laser is 5000mW. I'm guessing the other laser was 1200mW because a typical 5mW laser is a fun cat toy and not a serious tool.
Assembling you own laser is very very easy. check out "laserpointerforums" and "candlepowerforums" most people setup a flashlight body, driver board, heatsink, and a diode.
I think you may have the wrong kind of peppermint shrimp. Lysmata wurdemanni are believed to be the better peppermint shrimp from what most people say. Good luck!
I believe I'm getting the right ones. Plus most of the aiptasia in that tank are gone now, although I only see 2 of the 6 shrimp I added. At this point, I'd be happy moving a couple into the 400g.
So far so good, but at some point I will have to move it. I should have mentioned that for about 50 of the day period, the tentacles are 50% less obstructing and the tang swims around where it wishes. At night around the time I was filming, it was a massive bush of anemones. :)
That's really cool, but I feel like it would be very time consuming for large infestations. I nuked every visible aiptasia (dozens) yesterday in about 15 minutes with a syringe full of kalk paste.
Keep in mind that if you do too much of anything, like in this case kalk paste, in one session, you may affect water parameters adversely. Just like using a lot of putty for planting corals at once can make LPS retract due to the chemicals in the water. They usually open up hours later, but it's usually best to target a section and address it, then do more later or the next day.
Yeah, I tried Joe's Juice recently, and I just didn't find that it worked as well as kalk. It hurt the aiptasia, but didn't kill it. They ended up all growing back within a week or 2. Kalk tends to sort of harden over them though, which I think helps. Mostly it's the cost factor. My half tub of BRS kalk will last basically forever for this. Wish I could throw in some peppermint shrimp to clean up the tiny nems and the ones I can't hope to reach, but my wrasses would snap them up in no time. Oh well, I feel like this is at least a sustainable way to keep ahead of them.
Some of the ones I hit with Joe's Juice yesterday are ALREADY back. The ones I hit with kalk paste are still concreted over with kalk, so I'll assume they're dead.
I sense a will it kill video! I would kill for something that will get rid of brown beard algae once and for all. Im fresh water but, darn it I think I might want to play with some salt water. Just need more room for the other tank.
I bought one just got it. It worked on the aptasia I’m going to try it on bristle worms and those little white star fish things whatever they’re called.
The fish are relaxing gonna take the dive on a salt water tank again with some clowns and gonna buy dry rock and set up one the old fashioned way so I don’t get pests
The link says 5 MW. 5000 mw is 5watts. Not sure about the device you have linked. Also, my CopperBand butterfly in a couple of weeks totally cleared my tank of easily 100 aptasa some of which were as big or bigger than the beasts that you toasted in your video.
The eBay page says 5 mW but that's so low power that I can't imagine it would fry anything. Plus the battery wouldn't discharge so quickly and the device wouldn't heat up appreciably. Which doesn't mean it's actually 5000 mW (5 watts) either although that would align well with the battery discharging so quickly.
It could be that they misstate the power due to power level restrictions on imports of these devices. It would be cool if an owner of this device could do a test and let us know the real deal.
It has less success apart from visual pleasure. Your aiptasia source is actually inside rocks where you can't reach it. Anyway - it's a pleasure to kill it by hand as always! Good luck )
Plus you can pick the nudi's out of your tank at night and sell them to your LFS once they're finished eating all the aptasia. I had to pay $15/each for them little suckers.
You maybe could have picked them out if the endless list of livestock hadn't eaten the aiptasia eating nudi's as that list is quite a long one from Peppermint shrimp to wrasse, some butterflies and so on. I did see a list somewhere the other day if I find it again I'll add it on here.
For those wanting to buy one, the exact laser kit shown here is available on Amazon. Shipping time looks to be about the same as here - 25-30 days give or take. The cost I paid was about 60 bucks. Rather than offer a link, just search “burning laser” or “powerful laser pointer” and look at the item picture and description. You can find exact match to the one featured. Say goodbye, aptasia! 😈
If you are getting these style lasers for around 60-100$ with glasses and charger chances its only about 1-1.5 watts. You can get 5 watt lasers and lasers that take bigger batteries for longer use, sanwu lasers is reputable.
melevsreef not to mention it keeps your hands out of the aquarium. Reducing the chances of you inadvertently fragging corals or contaminating your tank.
Mark, got the same one last week and as you said works great. Here's link to extra batteries from Amazon - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N01UMVX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I've used kalkwasser in the past. I just don't like how it ends up landing on other corals, burning those. With this, I can target the exact item and nothing around it.
20 videos of people mis-pronouncing Anemone. Melev ought to not be one of them! Yet you might want to call Aiptasia "An Enemy", it's incorrect. Think "Anna + money". That's how it's meant to be said.
Glad I saw this video. I ordered one right away as I've been fighting an endless battle with aiptasia. Great video and info as usual from Melev.
Looks really interesting and I may just have to give it a try. Thank you Marc for giving this review.
Wow haven’t been in the hobby for 10 years , how things have changed , can’t wait to start up again
Just ordered. Thanks for the thoughtful review and testing. I'll let you know how it goes!
Nice video I inherited a well stablished 40 gallons with live rock and 3 clown fish, the tank has been set up close to 20 years and North Dallas Aquarium was doing biweekly maintenance with the previous owner. However it has quite a bit of apitasia on the rocks. I have started using apitasiaX but this look much more convenient and in the long run less expensive. I starting the hobby once again so I am a bit rusty since it has been quite a long time since I had a saltwater tank. Also I am the Metroplex from Sachse. Thank you for the video you have great looking tanks!!!
Thanks Marc! Just bought one, hopefully this will work for the couple at the bottom of my 3ft deep tank
I'd think it will. Let me (or us) know. :)
It will work great I have a three foot deep tank 👍
Thanks Marc, got myself one of these lasers. Looking forward to trying it. 👍🏻
Oh...so you can do this by zapping it outside of the water. That's so convenient! Everything I've been researching you have to do it from in the water. Thanks for this info.
Absolutely beautiful! Anemones and Clownfish; two of my favs. As far as the bubbletip you refer to as "long and stringy", I must say I think it's flowing tentacles are beautiful. The flowing motion of the anemones are in great part the beauty of that tank IMHO.
Great video, loved the music at the end very relaxing. Keep up the awesome work.
This was an absolutely fascinating video. I actually got out of saltwater keeping because of aiptasia and green hair algae that I simply could not get under control no matter what I tried.
This has given me hope that I could go back to keeping a reef, because I loved it and miss it, I just felt I wasn’t skilled enough.
Thank you! I just purchased the laser , am tier of the redsea killer liquid and after they comeback bigger and stronger
Didn't even make it 10 minutes and was on Ebay finding a US seller of these. Got 1 on the way. Thanks Melev! And fuck aiptasia. Now I just need a flood lamp for Cyano
Thanks for the two part video, fantastic 😊 really enjoyed it ...
Glad you liked that part. :) I know it made the video appear to be longer to the average viewer.
Green laser light is absorbed by hemoglobin, that's why we use that color in the operating room . in the retina has a lot of blood vessels filled with hemoglobin and will blind you very quickly
Be aware, if the aiptatia are white or very lite in color, like those sometimes found in the overflow, the laser may have little to no affect. The same results can be observed when burning papers of different colors. Dark=quick burn. Liter=slow burn. Tried it on my hand with the beam at its widest and was able to maintain a longer contact time with my palm than with the back of my hand. That being said, it may be smart to wear a longs leaved white-T as part of laser PPE.
That's interesting, I've never tried it on a lighter colored aiptasia. I'll have to try it. Thanks!
Your video description says 5 miliwatts, but you meant 5 watt or 5000 miliwatts as you say in the video. I have a 3 watt and it works great. Focusing tip is the key!
Honestly, that part is a little confusing to me. The specs are in the link I provided, so feel free to take a look and give me your thoughts. 5000mw is what I'm seeing. The one from 3 years ago was 1200mw.
Man in black laser..great vid
Hey Mark, nice video as always. I must say in my case peppermint shrimp did the job in about days. I have a 180g display and aiptasia was spreading. I first started using Red Sea's AiptasiaX but everyone I zapped seemed to multiply to 6 in the next week. I added 3 peppermint and they did about nothing. I bought another 10 (a couple of them good sized) and the next week I was Aiptasia free 🤗🤗🤗. Laser is cool though 😊
We bought two!!! Thank you for the video. Very helpful before I started zapping! They’re awesome dude 😎👍
Where did you find them?
Bought them on Ebay, the only problem is they keep coming back it doesn’t kill them. If you have a couple the laser works but if you have a lot like me it takes to long to keep burning them. I ended up buying fish that eats them
Good to know this actually works! Does the color of the laser affect it? (green vs red vs blue ect) or is it just the power of the laser?
I only know that I've had two lasers so far, and both were blue spectrum. This one is more powerful that the last one, and works better. After uploading the video, I zapped one that was 18" from the front glass and was able to make it shrivel up too. :)
Nice! very cool tool.
Had a green one and it worked fine until I dropped in the case with the batteries left in and ruined the lens. Luckily, it quickly burned through the black foam to the metal case or things could have gone very wrong!
I have the same laser as your second one. Do you still use it? Mine seems to have gotten weak. I got news batteries
but didn't really help. I was hearing the aiptasia popping and cracking before ,now much. Just curious.
I saw a video that the guy had the tank in a way that the sun will touch the tank in the morning hours and boy those BBT were superb
We bought two laser for 83 bucks from the same guy. He gave a better deal for two. Plus I could go for twice as long having an extra laser. I killed every single one (over 100) in my 350 gallon tank in one night. It was fun! Also before you put the batteries in make sure you have the glasses on. Incase it’s on. Gloves help too, I felt the burning on my hang once coming back through the glass. It was just a quick ouch so I didn’t put any on. Focusing the laser would be hard with gloves is the other problem.
Amazing. The Anemone tank still looks great! I hope mine gets big. Do you feed them anything> I hear people saying to feed them shrimp and some say nothing but just light. IDK.
I feed the clownfish daily, but don't feed the anemones.
melevsreef Thank you! May the force be with you.
Is this a method for control or can you eradicate aptasia with this method. I have a couple in my QT tank on some corals that I would like to prevent from getting in my display tank for as long as I can. Although with this method I’m more likely to treat them and keep my hands out of the water. Thanks
You want to make sure that the glasses have the wavelength etched into them. The red ones that come with your home depot laser level are so you can see the laser more clearly... Yes they are about $40...
TheReefaholic I bought new googles since the filming of this video.
melevsreef
Is it because the ones that came with were not good enough??
Thanks just subbed and ordered my laser! :)
Hello new here, and beginner... so do these “pest” “hitchhikers “ only start growing in live rock? If I get a salt water tank will I get them? manjanos too?
Good vid,thanks....have you tried or you think it can be safely used with palythoas ?
I haven't tried that.
You can also buy them off Wish. Just look for the specifications Marc read off at the beginning!
Never heard of Wish.
They actually have an app you can download much like Geek! They are based out of China, so there is a considerable wait time for deliveries!
You can get most any off the site! For far
Witch one on the wish app
Wondering if there's any other brands you've seen since making this video(possibly newer model with longer battery life, or atleast some info on the model you were using...since link no longer works).Be interested in grabbing one as well, unfortunately I'm 2 years to late ☹
I bought three burghia nudibranchs the other day. They eat smaller aptasia and will multuply rapidly in the matter of months. Something for anyone to consider if they have a consistant problem with them.
I bought them once, put them in my tank and never saw them again. Let us know how yours work out. Your plan sounds good, but the reality of that happening isn't guaranteed.
melevsreef
Here's for hoping. 😁
They ate three aptasia while in the cup I bought them in while I was waiting for lights out and the melanurus wrasse to plant himself for the night. They were moving quick once I installed them.
Come back to me in a few weeks with good news. That is what we want to hear! :)
Off subject a bit,what lights are you running . Has very nice coloration ? And looks like a fun way to handle the nuisance .
This tank has a Radion Gen2 over it. I have a newer Radion on hand, I just have to swap it out, detect it via Reeflink, program the lighting period and spectrums, etc...
Of course it’s all anecdotal info. But my rose BTA has long tenticals if I have more flow like you. When tentacles sway. If I have very low flow then it bubbles up. Like almost no flow.
Hey Marc I have some fire coral growing on a rock and a few aiptasia can I used this for the fire coral?
Any link to something that you're still able to buy? Awesome thorough review btw. Appreciate it!
Will a laser like this harm aquarium glass
No, not at all.
@melevsreef i seen you say that over 5yrs ago lol I figured now with time you'd 100% know lol. Thanks for the fast reply, buying a higher power one now!
Hi. Could you confirm the laser wattage. In your original video 3 years ago you said the laser was 1200mw at time 5.29. That would mean it is a 1.2 watt laser. These lasers from China are showing up as milliwatts are they mislabelled to avoid restrictions? I have been watching a few vids and most say you need 1 watt plus to burn these effectively. Going on that i have ordered a 3 watt laser, just waiting for it to arrive. This is however a great vid and very useful. Thanks
The original one was 1200mw, or 1.2 Watts. The new one in this video is 5000mw, or 5 Watts.
If it is 5 full watts ( 5000 mW) it will be classified as a Class 4 Laser.
Link is now dead. I just got my laser and it appears DOA. Ebay noted that the listing has been removed but gives no reason behind it. I'll update if I get laser to work. Marc, does the charger just stay lit green while charging?
SquirkleTheory Green usually means charged. I’ll double check mine when I get back home.
Very nice : -) I watched the whole thing.
order placed, thanks for the pointer
That was great way to get Rid of those pest.Cool.
Thanks for the video. I've been eyeing this laser for a while. Do you think it will work for colonial hydroids and mushrooms???????
I don't know.
Now I want some aiptasia just so I can use a laser on it! And cook bacon with it, mmmmm :) 👍
isn't it true that as soon as you stress them they spit out spores from their mouth disc? Did u notice any of this? Other remedies state to start treating at the mouth disk, do you agree?
I discussed that, no I didn't encounter that issue. I prefer to burn off the tentacles first, so they can't capture food in the future, and then cook the body.
Omg getting one of those I didn't realize it was that affordable. The crackling did it for me plus the fact the thing looks like a Lightsaber.
What is the name of the laser and where can I get one?
Great into thanks for sharing
What is the name of this product and where do I buy? Anyone knows???
I have a few Aptasia that came back after several uses with Aptasia X so I think I'm going to try this one out.
has it worked? and which one u got?
Mark the light came with five small adapters, what’s the used for them?
For fun effects on the ceiling or wall, nothing we would need/want.
Tried the link and have no joy( im in london ,not sure if that makes a difference ) , please can you re check link or may i have the name or any other contact details ..cheers love your presentations ...
The vendor pulled their ad unfortunately. Sorry.
Thank you ..are you really happy with the Lazer ? , if so , can you please recommend another supplier perhaps ?? I have been using Red Sea Aptasia X , but struggle to get to the bottom of my 36 inch Aquarium where the big ones are ..
Are these safe with acrylic??
Yes, no risk at all.
Hey Marc! Is this laser safe to use through acrylic?
Yes
Will it work on Brown Star Polyps?
Focus it through a magnifying glass. Super powered
My peppermint shrimp doesn't touch aptasia :(
Hi.I am new to Reef Tanks.At 4:42 there is a snake like thing.What is this because I have same in my tank and do not know if it is normal.Are they harmless?
That is one arm of a Serpent Starfish. They are good clean up crew item. www.melevsreef.com/critter/serpent-starfish
Sorry, but the link of ebay it's not valid, don't find the product, can post a new link?
Sorry, the vendor pulled their ad for whatever reason.
You have a typo in your description. 1W = 1000mW. Your new laser is 5000mW. I'm guessing the other laser was 1200mW because a typical 5mW laser is a fun cat toy and not a serious tool.
The one I just bought is 3000mw recommend buy a guy on reef to reef do u think that's too much looks the same as yours was 130 bucks
Do you think the Lazer could get rid of mushrooms ? If not what? There infringing on my Sps
It’s best to scrape them off the rock entirely. Use something like dental tools to peel them away one by one.
Just thought I would let you know that the link to the laser doesn't work now (at least for me). Thanks for all your awesome videos!
doesn't work for me either so where to purchase one???
If I find a good one that doesn't cost a fortune, I will let you know. :)@@tizbrin
Assembling you own laser is very very easy. check out "laserpointerforums" and "candlepowerforums" most people setup a flashlight body, driver board, heatsink, and a diode.
I'll be getting one :) Would have loved to see you hit the cyano to see it cook
You saw some cyano? That brown stuff between the sand and the glass? I need to scrape that away.
just ordered mine
I think you may have the wrong kind of peppermint shrimp. Lysmata wurdemanni are believed to be the better peppermint shrimp from what most people say. Good luck!
I believe I'm getting the right ones. Plus most of the aiptasia in that tank are gone now, although I only see 2 of the 6 shrimp I added. At this point, I'd be happy moving a couple into the 400g.
As with firearms don't point it at anything that you don't want to destroy
Does that hippo tang do ok in that tank?
So far so good, but at some point I will have to move it. I should have mentioned that for about 50 of the day period, the tentacles are 50% less obstructing and the tang swims around where it wishes. At night around the time I was filming, it was a massive bush of anemones. :)
You can also get them on Aliexpress
Good to know.
Link? The eBay link don't work
Funny I already had one of these but no focusing tips, Nemo Dive Tools resells this as a underwater laser pointer.
So does anybody have a link for a new one? Link is dead :(
Will it burn a hole in your silicone?
I never aimed it at the silicone.
@@melevsreef ah, I'd be worried about hitting that or the plastic overflow. The reflections didn't blind your fish?
No.
What type of batteries used
CUBAN REEFER you can see them in the link, check the video description.
Link is dead... where can I pick this up?
I don’t know. Not sure why the seller would pull their listing.
That's really cool, but I feel like it would be very time consuming for large infestations. I nuked every visible aiptasia (dozens) yesterday in about 15 minutes with a syringe full of kalk paste.
Keep in mind that if you do too much of anything, like in this case kalk paste, in one session, you may affect water parameters adversely. Just like using a lot of putty for planting corals at once can make LPS retract due to the chemicals in the water. They usually open up hours later, but it's usually best to target a section and address it, then do more later or the next day.
Yeah, I was mindful of that. I saw a pH jump on my Apex of about .1. I'm thinking of attacking my bubble algae in small sections with it as well.
Excellent, glad you knew to watch for that.
Yeah, I tried Joe's Juice recently, and I just didn't find that it worked as well as kalk. It hurt the aiptasia, but didn't kill it. They ended up all growing back within a week or 2. Kalk tends to sort of harden over them though, which I think helps. Mostly it's the cost factor. My half tub of BRS kalk will last basically forever for this. Wish I could throw in some peppermint shrimp to clean up the tiny nems and the ones I can't hope to reach, but my wrasses would snap them up in no time. Oh well, I feel like this is at least a sustainable way to keep ahead of them.
Some of the ones I hit with Joe's Juice yesterday are ALREADY back. The ones I hit with kalk paste are still concreted over with kalk, so I'll assume they're dead.
Wouldn’t this work for other nuisances, like small patches of green hair algae?
I've only targeted aiptasia, but may someone else will chime in.
needs a new link pls
those safety glasses will not be rated for anything like 5 watts . possibly 50mw
I can't argue that point. They seem worthless.
Would it work for algae though? 🤔
I don't know.
I sense a will it kill video! I would kill for something that will get rid of brown beard algae once and for all. Im fresh water but, darn it I think I might want to play with some salt water. Just need more room for the other tank.
Jayknee Garner did you ever use the laser for BBA?
You can give all your aptasia to me for my copperband!
No finding link to laser
Not...
Yeah, the company pulled their product for unknown reasons.
I bought one just got it. It worked on the aptasia I’m going to try it on bristle worms and those little white star fish things whatever they’re called.
Asterinas are easy to pluck out of your reef. Giant tweezers make that a quick task.
The fish are relaxing gonna take the dive on a salt water tank again with some clowns and gonna buy dry rock and set up one the old fashioned way so I don’t get pests
Welcome back!
Is this a 5 watt laser?
Follow the link to the ad, that's the information as I understand it. 5000mw is what I know.
The link says 5 MW. 5000 mw is 5watts. Not sure about the device you have linked. Also, my CopperBand butterfly in a couple of weeks totally cleared my tank of easily 100 aptasa some of which were as big or bigger than the beasts that you toasted in your video.
The eBay page says 5 mW but that's so low power that I can't imagine it would fry anything. Plus the battery wouldn't discharge so quickly and the device wouldn't heat up appreciably. Which doesn't mean it's actually 5000 mW (5 watts) either although that would align well with the battery discharging so quickly.
It could be that they misstate the power due to power level restrictions on imports of these devices. It would be cool if an owner of this device could do a test and let us know the real deal.
I have no idea how to measure the wattage? But I think you are right about stating one thing so you can import it into the U.S. 😏
Blue colored not red?
Yes, blue. 450nm
$9.99 for eye protection.
Why do you need a laser for a tank.
Watch the video and see. :)
hippo tang in a tiny tank?
You haven't noticed it until now? ;)
Get bergia nudibranch. 2-3 month and its out.
That's a long time to wait and hope for success. This is quicker, and more effective. :)
It has less success apart from visual pleasure. Your aiptasia source is actually inside rocks where you can't reach it. Anyway - it's a pleasure to kill it by hand as always! Good luck )
Plus you can pick the nudi's out of your tank at night and sell them to your LFS once they're finished eating all the aptasia.
I had to pay $15/each for them little suckers.
You maybe could have picked them out if the endless list of livestock hadn't eaten the aiptasia eating nudi's as that list is quite a long one from Peppermint shrimp to wrasse, some butterflies and so on. I did see a list somewhere the other day if I find it again I'll add it on here.
For those wanting to buy one, the exact laser kit shown here is available on Amazon. Shipping time looks to be about the same as here - 25-30 days give or take. The cost I paid was about 60 bucks. Rather than offer a link, just search “burning laser” or “powerful laser pointer” and look at the item picture and description. You can find exact match to the one featured.
Say goodbye, aptasia! 😈
I wish I had a big enough tank for sharks. You probably know where I'm going with this....
yup!
The powers you are dealing with are watts not miliwatts.
If you are getting these style lasers for around 60-100$ with glasses and charger chances its only about 1-1.5 watts. You can get 5 watt lasers and lasers that take bigger batteries for longer use, sanwu lasers is reputable.
That has been confusing. The instructions vary, listing them as "mw" mostly. Like the first one I got three years ago was 1200mw. Or 1.2 watts.
Ya I posted that in response to the video description.
I think aiptasia x is much better.. I use it in my tank and it work great
I've used a lot of that over the years, and it is what I recommend to others. But the laser is far more fun.
melevsreef not to mention it keeps your hands out of the aquarium. Reducing the chances of you inadvertently fragging corals or contaminating your tank.
Mark, got the same one last week and as you said works great. Here's link to extra batteries from Amazon - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N01UMVX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks, I'm ordering some today.
These things are horrible I bought one on your advice and it blinded my curious Naso Tang in one eye when he swooped in to check it out.
I'm sorry to hear that happened. I did explain that I always pay attention to any fish in the area and shut it off if they get close to my work area.
... 60 bux buys a lot of kalkwasser which still looks way more effective...
But that's not a frickin' laser...
Thomas Gionet exactly. 😂 you can do all sorts of shit with a laser.
I've used kalkwasser in the past. I just don't like how it ends up landing on other corals, burning those. With this, I can target the exact item and nothing around it.
At least not one strapped to a shark. ;)
20 videos of people mis-pronouncing Anemone. Melev ought to not be one of them! Yet you might want to call Aiptasia "An Enemy", it's incorrect. Think "Anna + money". That's how it's meant to be said.
Its doesn't affect fish na
:)