Looking for a majano-eating loaner fish...

Brad Black

Brad Black

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I have a majano outbreak (bout 6-8 on 2 rocks) from a coral rock addition a few months ago. I am looking for someone locally that has a butterfly, angel or whatever that is a confirmed majano-eater, that I could borrow to place in my 29G QT along with the problem rocks to eat the problem up. I can buy one, but then there's:
1) no promise it will eat majanos, and
2) then I'd have to find a home for a coral-eating fish I don't want in my mixed reef.
I already have 3 pepermint shrimps, they ate the 2 aiptasia that came with the rock, but won't touch the majanos. Please PM me if you can help, thanks
 
Have you tried any of the manual removal tricks already, such as syringe injections? What's been your experience?
 
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No havn't tried either yet. Thats what I would have like to have done but after many exhausting hours of reading I have come to the conclusion that removing the rock is the sure fire solution.
Many even strongly reccomend manual removal and then bleaching the rock! Yikes! A bit over the top for me. May as well throw the rock in the yard and buy new. They also said that majnos are as bad or worse than aiptasia, especially when it comes to fast spreading, even getting them out of plumbing.
I also read several threads that elude to the fact that too much organic matter in SW can exsaserbate their spread. They say, lower feedings drastically, remove the infested rock, look over very thoughrouhgly, and bleach. Or you can QT the rock and try other methods in QT (such as kalk or fish that will eat them). Many seem to agree that kalk/joes juice work sometimes, but because of the way they can spread, to use the sure thing and remove the affected rocks, treat, then put back (and some even went as far as to say-even if it means having to lose a few corals). Yeesh.
I really thought a lot of these folks were paranoid, but the more I read, the more it became clear what should be done.
Anyone else have any luck removing them?
 
Heres a quote from one of the threads on majanos:

i had the thread on my old computer
but not on this one... if you find it there are several fish recom to try to get rid of these pests... no matter what would recom removing any rock that has them on it...

we have let our tank sit for probably about 6 mos now...
doing nothing and waiting to see if these things will show themselves again...

it is certainly demoralizing
and sorry for anyone who has to deal w/ this pest... reason why anytime post to a thread about these pests try to tell people that its not like aiptasia and is NOT a simple thing to deal with (although some got have reported getting lucky and after zapping one or 2 then they were gone)...

after researching the pest
decided to BLEACH all the LR where the pests were present... although not my favorite choice - seemed to be the 'safest' choice to take in an effort to eradicate the problem...

on the positive side
luckily these pests have not reared their ugly heads... been think going on 6 mos now... finally feel safe to come out and play


regards


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i took my rock out and cut them off with a razor knife, then hit what was left with a cig lighter then place them upside down in the sand bed and havent had any more problems with them comming back.
 
I had a problem with them about 6 mths ago as well. I had 5 of them on 3 different rocks. I used a hypodermic needle, and boiling water. One shot for each anemone about 3cc's and they never came back. It was great because a) I didn't have to remove the rock from my tank, and b) it was super cheap!

Good Luck.
 
I had some on rock from a fellow reefer. I knew it was there and just did manual removal during quarantine in a plastic tub. Maybe I was lucky, but I got them all off (some volunteered off by moving to the sides of the plastic quarantine bin). That was over a year ago, so I think I'm in the clear.

I think it's worth a shot.

Best of luck, Brad.
 
A raccon butterfly will eat them but it will also eat the corals in your tank. I bought one for $20 and when the job was done I sold it to a fowlr person for $10.
 
I've worked for service companies for years and we always used small Asfur angels to take care of majano problems. They are pretty reef friendly. They seem to like to eat open brains though. Trachy's, Scoly's, Cynarinas and similar corals.
 
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I saw everyones replies. And I hate to admit it but I think I have become a foremost expert on removing majanos. I have killed successfully without them coming back around 40 plus. First off I did hours of research on them. I did research of different angels and racoon butterfly fish. But having a reef I didn't want to roll the bones on either option, even though I did try a bi-color dwarf angel fish, with little success. Being an expert on nuisance anemones is not something to brag about though. I tried joe's juice which will work but not nearly as effective as Blue life aiptasia control. This stuff is the best product that I have come across. Runs around 6-8 dollars had to order it online couldn't find it at any LFS. Just shut your pumps and powerheads off follow the directions covering them completly with the solution out of the syring, and wait atleast 30 minutes before turning your pumps back on. I tried the hot water injection. Kalk paste. copperbanded butterfly fish good for aiptasia but not majanos, peppermint shimp the same as above. Too many nutrients in the water will spread these little guys faster than you can imagine. Overfeeding also contributes greatly. I hope this will help any reefer out there to rid there issues of nuisance anemones.
 
I use Kalk paste. seems to work pretty well but can never get it all.

I bought some dry bleached rock and put it in a tank with NEW sand. Have NEW water in it and its been running with no heater. Noticed a aptasia on the tip of a rock,,, Where did THAT come from? LOL

Sean
 
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