Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Baby-Purple-Nemoneeny!

[fdonophan]

Found this little guy today on the rock my 'shrooms came on - fully extended he's all of 4mm!! He only has one ring of tentacles. I thought it might be a zoa or some other coral hitchhiker til I moved the rock and he retracted into his teeny tiny little sock!

He's very very hard to see as his color blends perfectly with the coralline behind him. I'm gonna track him and see how big he gets!! I know he's itty-bitty, but any of you know what he might be?

 

[GSMguy]

Mojano.

 

[fdonophan]

Hmmm...never heard of that one. Tis a good nem or a bad nem?

 

[ct_vol]

Majanos are bad anemones... Spread fast... But the title of your thread made me laugh so I had to post in it...

 

[1fishkeeper]

Nuke it why you can. If not you will have a million of them in your tank.

 

[fdonophan]

Nuke it why you can. If not you will have a million of them in your tank.

But...

...but...

it's CUTE!!!

 

[david00061]

Kill it or it takes over and you will have thousands of Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Baby-Purple-Nemoneeny. And they will win

 

[fdonophan]

...you guys are no fun. :sad1:

 

[david00061]

But seriously, they are bad they will multiply and sting and kill your other corals. One or 2 are easy to get rid of. When you have 30 or so you can’t ever get rid of them.

 

[fdonophan]

Don't suppose my phantom mantis will handle it? No?

k.

i'm bad at 'kill' mode though...

 

[s_kelley]

Look up majano and you will go into kill mode lol

 

[david00061]

The easiest way is buy some Aiptasia x follow directions. It helps if you wear a black hat

 

[fdonophan]

It helps if you wear a black hat

I already ordered my super-sleuth spy kit to catch my phantom mantis.k.thnx.

:spin1:

 

[fdonophan]

ok i still have only one - can i just grab the thing and throw it in the trash? will it sting? its tiny...how do I actually get rid of it before it multiplies?

 

[fdonophan]

I took out the whole rock, decapitated it with a knife, and put the rock back. Nevermind...

 

[fdonophan]

"Leave a piece of majano behind, and eventually you will have a new majano in your tank!"

Well, maybe decapitating it won't work. I pulled the rock out and checked again. I THINK I got the whole critter out of there - guess we will see...

 

[ct_vol]

Time will tell... I like to inject the little guys with kalkwasser...

 

[deangelr]

^^ +1

 

[fdonophan]

Time will tell... I like to inject the little guys with kalkwasser...

Sounds like feeding alkaseltzer to seagulls...

 

[fdonophan]

Well - guess I got the whole thing. He seems happy in his bowl.

Wish I had a sump or something to stick him in - he's still CUTE!!