Majanos from Hell !!

[montrealreef]

correct me if I'm wrong, but if you mix lemon juice (acid) and Kalk (base) shouldn't you get
salt+water+heat? won't the acid just neutralize the base?

 

[Klownfish]

Waterfaller- You have a beautiful tank. Great looking corals. I hope we all can find way to get rid of these pests.


I keep looking,
hoping someone will post a cure...

besides breaking down my tank, and removing every single piece LR, and all occupants. I don't have another tank, I would have to sell most all of my wet-pets.

Anyone know if those Butterfly Fish that eat Majano's will eat my LTA and RBTA? They're both pretty big, perhaps the Butterfly Fish will eat the Majano's first? I have a set of True Percs that host both nems, wouldn't this help?

 

[Horace]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10746474#post10746474 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by montrealreef
correct me if I'm wrong, but if you mix lemon juice (acid) and Kalk (base) shouldn't you get
salt+water+heat? won't the acid just neutralize the base?

Well i thought that as well, but the kalk is on the outside (mouth) the lemon I injected into its body.

 

[GSMguy]

Jet Cat has it right these things are hard to kill i took out 90% of mine and am trying to kill the rest but i dont think i will ever kill them.... they are demons.

 

[amcarrig]

I struggled with these demons for several years. Started with one, ended up with hundreds. I ended up breaking down the 90 gallon tank that they were in and started over with a 180. Nothing worked for me, including the addition of a copperband butterfly.

 

[waterfaller1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10749791#post10749791 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Klownfish
Waterfaller- You have a beautiful tank. Great looking corals. I hope we all can find way to get rid of these pests.

Thank you! It's not the worst of my troubles at this point...fighting aefw's , snails knocking my lokani down into my gonis..which fried it yesterday{ I need some epoxy!!}.... is'nt this supposed to be fun??
I hope we can find an end to all of the troubles we face with pests.

 

[JetCat USA]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10750929#post10750929 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1

I hope we can find an end to all of the troubles we face with pests.

after learning the hard way, which i take it you're learning it that way too, the only answer is:

QT QT QT QT QT

quarantine EVERYTHING and thoroughly inspect it daily for at least two weeks before putting it into your system.

 

[Klownfish]

QT. Yes, I suppose. That isn't quite how I got them. Let me explain. It sounds funny, if it isn't your tank or mistake...


I first got my Majanos on LR when I was a newbie, with a FOWLER.

They were pretty green with pink tips and purple centers.

I thought "Gee, look! I got coral!"

(Here is the part you will fall outta your chair laughing...)


I FED THEM! I didn't know what they were, and I fed them. Now, 5+ years later, I realize the error of my foolish ways...

 

[JetCat USA]

i QT any LR i get, that's the #1 path of infestation with pests of any type. i realize not everyone has the setup to do that, and most people setting up a new tank don't even give it a second thought other then 'Oh i might get a Mantis if i order from TBS' but once bitten twice shy.

 

[bob21115]

Here are 10 pictures of my 300 gallon tank that had over 500 majano's infesting it. I removed all soft corals I could and put in the Racoon Butterfly. After a few week there were no majano's seen and none have returned.

 

[bob21115]

I started with 2 or 3 on one rock. I didn't know they were pests. After all the attempts to get rid of them is what caused them to spread.

 

[wentreefgirl]

They just look like a challange to me. I see a schringe full of kalk paste glistening above the water ready to strike.

 

[waterfaller1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10752289#post10752289 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bob21115
Here are 10 pictures of my 300 gallon tank that had over 500 majano's infesting it. I removed all soft corals I could and put in the Racoon Butterfly. After a few week there were no majano's seen and none have returned.

Do you still have the raccoon in the tank? Which raccoon did you get,Indo or Red Sea?

 

[bob21115]

I don't remember which on Ill look when I get home. It died about a month after they were gone. Not sure why I don't know if he was eating but no one else died at the same time.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10753326#post10753326 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1
Do you still have the raccoon in the tank? Which raccoon did you get,Indo or Red Sea?

 

[tgfrench]

Bob

That tank was infested. My LFS had aptasia out the yazzzzo till their system fried last winter in a cold snap. Their 380 gal display got down to 65 degrees and killed off most of their critters. In the rebuild they must have introducted the manjano cause they now have a main display that looks like your tank or worse. Glad to hear your beating them. Did I mention QT if not QT QT QT. I do after my second bout with redbugs. But those were a breeze in respect to majano or aefw's.

 

[bob21115]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10753716#post10753716 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tgfrench
Bob

That tank was infested. My LFS had aptasia out the yazzzzo till their system fried last winter in a cold snap. Their 380 gal display got down to 65 degrees and killed off most of their critters. In the rebuild they must have introducted the manjano cause they now have a main display that looks like your tank or worse. Glad to hear your beating them. Did I mention QT if not QT QT QT. I do after my second bout with redbugs. But those were a breeze in respect to majano or aefw's.

I QT now, but I didn't know at the time they were bad. I think they would have made it out of QT.

 

[bob21115]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10753326#post10753326 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1
Do you still have the raccoon in the tank? Which raccoon did you get,Indo or Red Sea?

It was the common one not the Red Sea.

 

[montrealreef]

I find it really strange that I repeatedly hear reports of butterflies eating majanos and aptasia yet I can never get them to eat the ones in my tank. I tried a double saddle butterfly fish first based on several reports of them eating these pests and being relatively safer than other butterflyfish with SPS. He never touched any of majanos. He consistently pecked at one of my favorite acros to the point that the polyps remained retracted and the coral started to loose color. I put up with this for a month before I decided he had to go.

I then tried a raccoon after seeing a video clip of one of them devouring majanos. He went strait for my SPS !!! he caused so much damage in one week that I did not have the patience to trap him. I drained the tank of water, took him out, and rapidly refilled the tank. I realize that that was probably stressful for my other fish, but I was desperate.

Does anyone know of a way to predict which butterflies are likely to eat these things (? geographic variability? size of fish? etc..)


Thanks

 

[JetCat USA]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10745407#post10745407 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cutnup
can anyone post a pic of a tank covered in mojanos?

had to do some digging to find pics but i managed to find one of the 180 i mentioned above when I'd finely just given up on it because of the damn majano and got to where i didn't even scrape the glass anymore but you can still see the little bastages all over the tank..........

and some of what i was up against before i threw in the towel

 

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