Help w/ overpopulating anemones!

[dantodd]

you can find it at wal-mart and many other places that sell canning supplies. If you can't find "pickling lime" you can always buy "kalkwasser" supplement for your tank and just mix it up as a thick paste rather than by the directions on the jar. It is much more expensive that way but very easy to find at the LFS.

 

[skeeter-doc]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7735199#post7735199 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WetSleeves
Are these the same as majano anemones?

can anyone answer this?

 

[dantodd]

no they are not.

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7824620#post7824620 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WetSleeves
I have some.

Good luck finding it with retailers.

Woah. I forgot what site I was posting in. Around here it's been a real pain in the neck finding someone who carries it. They'll have all the canning supplies but the Pickling lime is no where to be found. I decided to buy a case of Mrs. Wages through the online store.

 

[RedSonja]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7826884#post7826884 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WetSleeves
Woah. I forgot what site I was posting in. Around here it's been a real pain in the neck finding someone who carries it. They'll have all the canning supplies but the Pickling lime is no where to be found. I decided to buy a case of Mrs. Wages through the online store.

I found a local feed store that carries Mrs. Wages, if you go to www.southernstates.com and enter your zip code you can see if that particular co-op is near you. Otherwise call around feed store-type places and ask if they carry it. I got lucky and found a dozen cans of pickling lime (not Mrs. Wages) for $1.00 each on clearance at Harris Teeter. I wouldn't use it for kalk for the tank but for getting rid of tulip anemones it should be fine.

 

[WDLV]

I would never have imagined that Southern States would even have something like that. In any event I have a case and won't be needing any for at least a year. I have been using it for Kalk for well over a year with good results.

 

[RedSonja]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7858116#post7858116 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WetSleeves
I would never have imagined that Southern States would even have something like that. In any event I have a case and won't be needing any for at least a year. I have been using it for Kalk for well over a year with good results.

I wouldn't have imagined it either, I went in there looking at Rubbermaid stock tanks and found the Mrs. Wages. Which is why I posted it, to give others a heads-up on a possible source.

And I think I wasn't clear on my last comment, because the clearance-rack pickling lime I bought was NOT Mrs. Wages brand. Mrs. Wages is what cloudancer and I use for Kalk as well, with no complaints. Hope that is a little more clear.

-Sonja

 

[jpatrician]

These things have plauged my tank as well. I started off with 2 about 2 years ago, and today, there are 100s! They sting my SPS and what ever else they get too close to. Definitely wish I never bought them!! I have done the kalk paste, but I have to really keep up with them.

 

[Russ Braaten]

Skjeeter and Wetsleves they ARE majano anemones. Don't buy them unless that is all you want in a tank.

 

[Yum Cimil]

I have done this and it worked, I had a few rocks covered with them probably over a hundred. I left them in a tank with no light for three days and syphoned them off the bottom of the tank, they all came off the rocks.

 

[WDLV]

Oh I would never put them in my main display, but I kept them years back and thought they were quite beautiful.

 

[littlefish72]

I agree with Russ.....those are majano and they suck so bad......there is nothing in this hobby i hate more.......there is some kind of butterfly (i think it's called a double sattleback or something like that....don't quote me) that eats them exclusivley......the owner of a fish store i used to work at had them in his 240 display........the butterfly cleaned most of them up and died.......and didn't mess with any of the corals

 

[WDLV]

They are great in a FOWLR tank. But that's about all I can say for them. I've seen people who had them in their reefs and they were like the plague, but they're friendly compared to aptasia. I don't think anything sux more than those.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Tulip anemones aren't Majano or Aiptasia. Their population can be controlled by limiting their feedings. You can peel their foot up easily or nuke 'em with kalk paste if you want to eliminate them.
Percula (and other species) of Clownfish will host in these small anemones.

 

[Russ Braaten]

Gary, You can call them anything you want but what is happening on Ebay is people are suckering unknowing people into buying a PEST anemone that they wish they could control. You say you can control them by limiting feeding them. Tell us how to do that and leave the rest of your tank alive. The other methods of removal are the same used for majanos, aptasia and any other pest anenome. As for clowns being a good judge of good and bad, they will host a koosh ball too.

If you read the eBay auctions, they always have a sentence or word in there that clears them of fraud.

The warnings should read. Only buy this if this is the only thing you want in your tank other than maybe fish.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8012478#post8012478 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Russ Braaten
The warnings should read. Only buy this if this is the only thing you want in your tank other than maybe fish.

The same thing could be said of Bubble Tip Anemones, Xenia or a multitude of other reef critters. I would imagine most people snapping these anemones up off ebay are looking for hardy anemones for their Clownfish and this is a great solution. (FWIW I've never purchased or sold anything on ebay to date.)

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8012359#post8012359 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
Tulip anemones aren't Majano or Aiptasia. Their population can be controlled by limiting their feedings. You can peel their foot up easily or nuke 'em with kalk paste if you want to eliminate them.
Percula (and other species) of Clownfish will host in these small anemones.

Huh. I was always told that the ones I had (pictured a couple posts above) were majanos. I never got anything to host in them, but they were nice to look at. I think they'd be great sump dwellers for their food removing abilities.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

WetSleeves- your anemones are something else entirely but you're right- Tulip anemones can also perform as a scrubber.