How to rid a reef tank with Majano anenomes?
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marktheexplorer
Premium Member
THe Saddle Back Butterfly is the best fix for the majanos. I had them for over three years and tried it all. I finally got the balls and dump a DSB into the tank and no more majanos. 350g tank mostley acros.
It is unbelivabel and now I can see my acros and those dam majanos can hurt them anymore,
Mark
It is unbelivabel and now I can see my acros and those dam majanos can hurt them anymore,
Mark
khaosinc
The cyborg reefer
If you have a local welding shop, you should be able to pick up a couple of sticks of stainless Tig rod if the thought of copper in your tank makes your nervous
Reefer Brian
In Memoriam
WOW, this thread is over a year old and still getting input.Keep them comming...
Canarygirl
New member
I recently rid my tank of a couple hundred majanos using a raccoon butterflyfish. It was a very nice fish...smart, good-looking, spunky. I was sorry to have to trap it afterwards and take it back to the LFS (it started eating my SPS polyps when the majanos ran out).
coralmojo
New member
My 2 year battle with Majanos/aiptasia (over 300) ended in 5 days when I got sick and tired of trying every treatment under the sun and got a Klein's Butterfly fish...I kid you not, while I slept that fish ate every aiptasia...completely cleaned out in 5 days...that fish patrols, leaves my corals alone and will eat ANY food I put in the tank...
DrMerle
DrMerle
Reefer Brian
In Memoriam
I started this thread over a year ago and have been battling them ever since....I have finally found a cure. PRESSURE WASHER. Yep, a pressure washer, just removed a few pieces of LR from the tank and pressure washed them...not a single majano in site(well there a few stuck to the fence on the side yard). I cant wit to do the entire tank and get the rock ready for the new 225g. I thought I was going to have to brush all the rock and let it re-cure itself(what a lenghthy process). It should only take about an hour to do my entire 120g tank......I cant believe I finally thought of something, no more Aptasia-X.
Canarygirl
New member
RB, I wouldn't recommend doing more than a couple of rocks at a time or you're going to end up with a huge nutrient spike. My friend tried it and it happened to him. He ended up with a recycle going on.
marktheexplorer
Premium Member
Double saddle is the best for a SPS tank. I tried all of the remedies and none worked execept the Double Saddle Back.
are you sh!tting me? you TASE the anemones? major creativity points for this one!
marktheexplorer
Premium Member
Sounds like you have a little "pee pee" reef Mr. Creativity.
Canarygirl
New member
what do you think about aptaisia that are attached to the sides of a glass tank? I am thinking I could hold a brine shrimp net in front of them (to catch "babies" they eject), while scraping off their base from the glass with a razor blade. Catch the dislodged aptaisia with the net, dump it out, rinse net, continue. Does that sound safe enough? I don't want to nuke the contents of my tank with aptaisia babies and there are quite alot of aptaisia in there.
PupChow
Member
I am reporting back to this thread since I got a lot of great info out of this thread, and I would like to [happily] contribute my story:
I had quite an outbreak in my 65g, I have Majanos on nearly every piece of rock and in little cracks that are impossible to get to. I tried many things: scraping them off with razor blade, pulling rocks out and leave them in the snow (which works, but destroys all LR), copperband butterfly (did not touch it), joe's juice (did melt them, but they came back).
What finally worked: Bristletail Filefish
It took awhile for the filefish to get comfortable, maybe 2 weeks or so before it stops hiding in the corner. It is still very secretive, but not as skittish as before and it does roam the tank. After a month and a half, I pretty much wrote it off as a failure until earlier this week as I was in the process of pulling out all the major rock structure, I noticed that ALL THE MAJANO ANEMONES ARE GONE! I remember seeing the filefish actually eating a Majano anemone on Day 3, but that was the only time I saw it eat one in person. Ever since then I see it hovering around rocks searching, so I am confident to say it was the filefish that got the job done while I wasn't looking.
I picked this guy up from LiveAquaria for $29, the best $29 I have ever spent if you ask me. The filefish works for me because at the moment I do not have any zoa; it has not touched my rose anemones, soft corals, frogspawns or any other inverts for that matter. Good luck!!
I had quite an outbreak in my 65g, I have Majanos on nearly every piece of rock and in little cracks that are impossible to get to. I tried many things: scraping them off with razor blade, pulling rocks out and leave them in the snow (which works, but destroys all LR), copperband butterfly (did not touch it), joe's juice (did melt them, but they came back).
What finally worked: Bristletail Filefish
It took awhile for the filefish to get comfortable, maybe 2 weeks or so before it stops hiding in the corner. It is still very secretive, but not as skittish as before and it does roam the tank. After a month and a half, I pretty much wrote it off as a failure until earlier this week as I was in the process of pulling out all the major rock structure, I noticed that ALL THE MAJANO ANEMONES ARE GONE! I remember seeing the filefish actually eating a Majano anemone on Day 3, but that was the only time I saw it eat one in person. Ever since then I see it hovering around rocks searching, so I am confident to say it was the filefish that got the job done while I wasn't looking.
I picked this guy up from LiveAquaria for $29, the best $29 I have ever spent if you ask me. The filefish works for me because at the moment I do not have any zoa; it has not touched my rose anemones, soft corals, frogspawns or any other inverts for that matter. Good luck!!
Canarygirl
New member
Pupchow, that's very interesting. Do you have SPS in your tank and have you seen any decrease in polyp extension on those (indicating that the filefish may be nipping on polyps?)
I tried the rabbitface butterflyfish and it did eat all the majanos in my tank, but then it started to chow down on my SPS polyps. A couple of colonies died as a result before I got the fish out. Now, a couple of months later all of the majanos have grown back.
I tried the rabbitface butterflyfish and it did eat all the majanos in my tank, but then it started to chow down on my SPS polyps. A couple of colonies died as a result before I got the fish out. Now, a couple of months later all of the majanos have grown back.
Sohal Tang Tim
Member
aptasia and manjo
aptasia and manjo
Joe's Juice, Aptasia X, and a few other items mentioned work.....
The key with getting rid of these is to nail them every single night
for a week or so straight......every night you will see less and less.....
keep going until one night you do not see a single one....then....keep going again for another week every single night watching for a single PITA to appear.....and nail it again.....
consistency of treatment is the key to getting rid of these....and if you persist the Joe's Juice works like a dream.....although I prefer the Aptasia X
because the JOe's juice is smaller amount and not as good an applicator etc.
but both of them work.
Good luck,
Tim
aptasia and manjo
Joe's Juice, Aptasia X, and a few other items mentioned work.....
The key with getting rid of these is to nail them every single night
for a week or so straight......every night you will see less and less.....
keep going until one night you do not see a single one....then....keep going again for another week every single night watching for a single PITA to appear.....and nail it again.....
consistency of treatment is the key to getting rid of these....and if you persist the Joe's Juice works like a dream.....although I prefer the Aptasia X
because the JOe's juice is smaller amount and not as good an applicator etc.
but both of them work.
Good luck,
Tim
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