Reefer Brian
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What is the best and most effective way rid a reef tank of majano anenomes? I have tries aptasia removal techniques but they multiply so quickly its hard to get a hold of them. Any suggestions??? I need them out NOW.
How to rid a reef tank with Majano anenomes?
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coralnut99
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My way was a bit on the tedious side. Actually very tedious. I have several pair of tweezers in my arsenal, and I found that it was fairly easy to remove the ones growing at or near the surface of a rock. Just get the Majano to retract, and grab hold of a corner of its foot and carefully peel back. Where the foot was in a crack ro crevice, I simply applied the smallest piece of epoxy possible and entombed it. It will take some persistance, but it's worked for me. They shake of Kalk pastes like champs, and peppermints won't touch them. There may be a butterfly species out there, but unless it's a fowlr, that just brings a different problem.
Reefer Brian
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Thanks for the input. I have a few days off work right now so I might try thr tweezers theory. I have indeed tried aptasia X and kalk....still there. They are multiplying as I am typing. Gotta go....
seaskraP
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been battling the lil bastards for a year now, and have to agree with coralnut, try to remove them from the base. I found that if you inject them with kalk paste, or vinegar or something, then they are a lot easier to remove, they almost fall right off.
if you have a particularly infested area, pull the rocks and cook em.
as for the biological approach, a kleins butterfly didn't work for me, and even a copperbanded butterfly wouldn't touch them (although he might of with more time)
good luck.
if you have a particularly infested area, pull the rocks and cook em.
as for the biological approach, a kleins butterfly didn't work for me, and even a copperbanded butterfly wouldn't touch them (although he might of with more time)
good luck.
hellssephiroth
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i bought a dozen peppermint shrimp, and i had like no kidding prolly 1-200 aiptasias and almost gone now a month later
coralnut99
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True peppermints will in most cases take of aptasia, but they won't touch majanos. A totally different PITA.
Honestly, I haven't read of anything that will consume them.
As mentioned, if you get them to retract they are much easier to pull off from the foot. Injecting them with or just applying a kalk paste will do that.
Dadekster
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Chaetodon ulietensis for biological control. Also known as a double saddle or false falcula butterfly fish it went through my 58 gallon which was infested with majanos. It cleaned out 99% (yes that's a WAG) and more importantly stayed on top of any that attempted to stick their ugly little heads out of their holes.
I tried it all before as well, kalk, lemon juice, tombing them, joe's juice, boiling, manual removal etc. If you feed your fish or corals at all and you miss one it's going to get feed and before you know it you'll have a hundred of them plus another hundred hidden in all sorts of places and you get to start all over.
Only downside is that once the majano's are gone mr. butterfly will start on your zoa's or any other anemones in your tank...mine even went after my sand anemone
. Mine definitely took a liking to the majanos though going after them almost exclusively unless I was feeding the tank. If your LFS is willing to take back the Ulietensis assuming you have other desirables you don't want munched on, it might be worth looking into.
I tried it all before as well, kalk, lemon juice, tombing them, joe's juice, boiling, manual removal etc. If you feed your fish or corals at all and you miss one it's going to get feed and before you know it you'll have a hundred of them plus another hundred hidden in all sorts of places and you get to start all over.
Only downside is that once the majano's are gone mr. butterfly will start on your zoa's or any other anemones in your tank...mine even went after my sand anemone
. Mine definitely took a liking to the majanos though going after them almost exclusively unless I was feeding the tank. If your LFS is willing to take back the Ulietensis assuming you have other desirables you don't want munched on, it might be worth looking into.
Eric Williams
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The best way I have found of getting rid of them is to use very hot, almost to a boil, water and Kalk mixture. But rather than just squirting the mixture on the face of the manjos I took a food injector, that is used for injecting a marinade into chickens or turkeys, and sharpened the end of the injector so I can push it into the body of the manjo. It seems to work great and the manjos can not shake off the mixture like they can if it is on the outside of their body. You can buy the injectors almost anywhere for around 8-10 bucks. The Kalk is alot cheaper than Joe's and seems to work just as good for me. Good luck and please let me know if this works for you.
I have used everything over the years- and many of the suggested things will work. I would be careful with the butterfly fish though, as I have seen many cases that did not turn out as expected! At this point i use the pickling lime paste routine- and it works great. The secret to success with the majanos is to not just give a treatment and then think things are fine- or good enough for now. Do a treatment, and the repeat it in a few days and then again after a week. that way weakend ones done have a chance to regain strength.
SIR PATRICK
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I am gonna give the tweezer method a try.
Gary Majchrzak
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AZDesertRat
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I tried everything. Joes Juice, kalk paste, hot water, lemon juice, various fish, peppermints, vinegar etc.
I finally bit the bullet and tore my entire 100G system down, removed the corals to a quarantine tank and started to work. I removed all the rock and tried killing the mojanos individually but there were too many (Note to self, next time you see even a single mojano, do not pass go do not collect $100, KILL THE SUCKER IMMEDIATELY!). I ended up cooking the rock which was not working well either in the 3 weeks I had alloted so I took each rock, sprayed it with a spray bottle filled with straight distilled white vinegar, brushed it vigorously with a plastic scrub brush and put it back in the rubbermaid totes in the dark.
I repeated this process several times over two weeks until all were gone. In the meantime I used a hypodermic filled with vinegar to spot kill the ones on my corals in the QT tank. I also siphoned all the loose ones and the ones attached to the back glass out o the display.
Finally this past Sunday I put the tank back together and am in the middle of a cycle. Once things settle back down I will add the corals and fish. Its really sucked but I was too lazy to pull that one single piece of rock off the back bottom and kill the couple that came from who knows where. the system had been up almost 4 years when they appeared and I am very careful who I trade corals with so I have no idea how I got them.
I finally bit the bullet and tore my entire 100G system down, removed the corals to a quarantine tank and started to work. I removed all the rock and tried killing the mojanos individually but there were too many (Note to self, next time you see even a single mojano, do not pass go do not collect $100, KILL THE SUCKER IMMEDIATELY!). I ended up cooking the rock which was not working well either in the 3 weeks I had alloted so I took each rock, sprayed it with a spray bottle filled with straight distilled white vinegar, brushed it vigorously with a plastic scrub brush and put it back in the rubbermaid totes in the dark.
I repeated this process several times over two weeks until all were gone. In the meantime I used a hypodermic filled with vinegar to spot kill the ones on my corals in the QT tank. I also siphoned all the loose ones and the ones attached to the back glass out o the display.
Finally this past Sunday I put the tank back together and am in the middle of a cycle. Once things settle back down I will add the corals and fish. Its really sucked but I was too lazy to pull that one single piece of rock off the back bottom and kill the couple that came from who knows where. the system had been up almost 4 years when they appeared and I am very careful who I trade corals with so I have no idea how I got them.
mejano
mejano
I had a 135 overrun with the bright green mejano. Literally a carpet of green on every rock. (Non-reefers said it was pretty.) Manual (pulling& injecting) methods work for isolated animals, but are not a practical solution for removing large populatns.
I had sucess with a small with a small (4") queen angel. It was a beuatiful fish and was was not too damaging for for three an done half years or so. The same live rock is mejano and aiptasia free today (five years later).
So my adivice is find a large angel variety that appeals to you, buy a small specimen , and be prepared to do a drain and refill someday when it is time to move your angel to a fish only system (yours or someone elses.)
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mejano
I had a 135 overrun with the bright green mejano. Literally a carpet of green on every rock. (Non-reefers said it was pretty.) Manual (pulling& injecting) methods work for isolated animals, but are not a practical solution for removing large populatns.
I had sucess with a small with a small (4") queen angel. It was a beuatiful fish and was was not too damaging for for three an done half years or so. The same live rock is mejano and aiptasia free today (five years later).
So my adivice is find a large angel variety that appeals to you, buy a small specimen , and be prepared to do a drain and refill someday when it is time to move your angel to a fish only system (yours or someone elses.)
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