Did You Beat Mojanoes?

[waterfaller1]

Please post how you did it, and how long it took.
Did you add a butterfly or angel, or similar? Did this fish also take out a clam, sps, or did it go right for the mojano first?
Thank you for any info you can share. Please, if you had a few and used kalk, boiling water, or similar, I know that this can be effective for some. I have total infestation of places I cannot reach. I want them gone.

 

[ASaleem91]

Man do I hate Majanoes. I just reaquascaped my tank so I also decided to kill the Majanoes. I used the Kalk Method. I had about atleast 30 of them. I took the rocks which had the Majanoes on them and placed them in a 29g tank. I then took a syringe and injected the kalk into their mouths and then all over there bodies. The next day when I went to aquascape my tank, all the Majanoes just fell off.

 

[lockus]

kalk paste + siphon + patience = no more majanoes.

1. Turn off all pumps.
2. Inject Majano
3. Wait 5 minutes or so.
4. Siphon out what you can.
5. Repeat every 2-3 days on different majanoes

I did this for about 2-3 months. Killing all that I could. Usually destroying about 10 each time. I wouldn't kill much more than that at once to keep all your levels in check. Due to all the xtra stuff in the tank you introduced during your killing spree.

For the rest of the rock that I moved from the 180 to the 75 it went on the concrete patio for 4-6 weeks in the summer. Nothing left after that.

YOu could also use Joes Juice but I found that kalk slurry worked the best.

 

[Misled]

Same as the two posters above though I only had a few. Compleatly burrried them in paste and just did a couple a day.

 

[ACBlinky]

I just posted on this, before I saw this thread. I had an infestation of tulip anemones (either closely related to, or a type of, Majanos) and today decided to go to war.

I pulled the tank apart -- periodically kalking those I could see wasn't doing the trick, and I found out why when I removed the first rock: there were colonies living under and behind the rocks. I could have gone on kalking for years and these little guys would have kept splitting -- best result would be a stalemate.

Every rock I pulled got a thorough going-over. I used tweezers to pull off the anemones, and kalked the area where they'd been, in case there were bits left. Those I accidentally missed (3 that I saw) got fed and then covered in a thick kalk paste later on.

I removed at least 150 1/2" - 1" anemones today; trying to kalk those in the tank would have been impossible. While removing the rockwork was a PITA, seeing the end result it's worth it. Now, any nem that pops up will get nuked right away before it can multiply -- hopefully that will keep things in check. I'm completely Aiptasia free (peppermints killed them off, and they haven't reappeared even though the shrimp are long gone) and hope that one day I can say I'm Majano free too!

 

[dendro982]

Manual removing worked for me - 12" deep tank.

 

[dendronepthya]

I removed the rock they were on and ran hot water over them until they detached. They are incredibly resilient. I once poured hot water over a piece of LR they were on and let it sit for 5 days. Yes, 5 DAYS. I didn't see any more anemones, but once I put it back into the tank, the mojos were still alive.

 

[atzak]

I used a racoon butterfly in a 265 gallon tank. This was a 7 foot tank that was covered in mojano's. It was fairly lightly stocked with corals. The butterfly went after zo's and button polyps first. When those were removed or eaten the butterfly cleaned the tank of mojanos, hundreds and hundreds of them, in about 1-2 weeks. Sorry, there were no sps or clams in the tank

 

[ACBlinky]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11902433#post11902433 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dendronepthya
I removed the rock they were on and ran hot water over them until they detached. They are incredibly resilient. I once poured hot water over a piece of LR they were on and let it sit for 5 days. Yes, 5 DAYS. I didn't see any more anemones, but once I put it back into the tank, the mojos were still alive.

I'll second this -- after my efforts yesterday, I hoped to see a Majano-free tank this morning. Unfortunately, it looks like at least five of the little nasties survived their kalk treatment and will need to be dealt with again. Persistence is key with these monsters -- let up for a week and they'll win.