What eats Majanoes????
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dublo8
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I have personally never seen "anyone" eat mojanos cuz that would be gross... All kidding aside peppermint shrimp might eat them. I use a needle/syringe with lemon juice and it works great! Just poke em when they arent looking and a little squeeze on the syringe is all it takes.
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Gary Majchrzak
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lots of Butterflyfish species will destroy Majano spp. anemones.
Get a Raccoon or Threadfin/Auriga. (These fish will also eat tubefeet of Echinoderms along with other desirable inverts)
Get a Raccoon or Threadfin/Auriga. (These fish will also eat tubefeet of Echinoderms along with other desirable inverts)
Henry Colf
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A kliens butterfly will eat them as well.
stoney1118
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you can also take a lil ph buffer and squrit it on em, its not gonna be anough to effect your ph in a fairly large tank, id say as long as you have 50 gallons or more no worries, or you can take a lil super glue and squrit em with it!
Gary Majchrzak
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my Klein's doesn't touch them, either.
Mark- if you have hordes of Majano your best bet is to get a predator.
Centropyge bicolor is also a possible Majano pred. Good luck!
SkiFletch
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Well if you're removing manually, break out the fire for the little bastages, don't mess around. I've found a small butane soldering torch, and/or a butane cigar lighter does wonders. Whenever I do a major water change and have rocks exposed, I always torch whichever aiptasia I can see. Works great.
Another option is to mix water and electricity
. Attach two thin gague wires (~24 gague) with zip ties to either side of a thin rod of some sort (carbon fibre or pvc works well). Strip the ends of the wires at the tip of the rod and orient them so they're ~1/4" apart. Put a switch in series with one of the wires, then connect the other side of the switch and the other wire to terminals on a 9V battery. Put the probe wires over the stalk of the mojano, press button, laugh maniacally . Yes, it's totally safe for your fish, corals, whatever. Only kills stuff in between the probes.
Another option is to mix water and electricity
. Attach two thin gague wires (~24 gague) with zip ties to either side of a thin rod of some sort (carbon fibre or pvc works well). Strip the ends of the wires at the tip of the rod and orient them so they're ~1/4" apart. Put a switch in series with one of the wires, then connect the other side of the switch and the other wire to terminals on a 9V battery. Put the probe wires over the stalk of the mojano, press button, laugh maniacally . Yes, it's totally safe for your fish, corals, whatever. Only kills stuff in between the probes.
Capt_Cully
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I waived the little white flag with these buggers. I tried a myriad of preparations. You might be able to keep them at bay, but not irradicate them with lemon juice, hot water, kalk paste, Joe's Juice, Aiptaisia X, or even Pixy Dust.
I did not try any predators, as I became skeptical at that point. I basically killed my rock once I saw the mojanos opening in bleach water. Muriatic acid. Air dry. Starting rock from scratch.
I did not try any predators, as I became skeptical at that point. I basically killed my rock once I saw the mojanos opening in bleach water. Muriatic acid. Air dry. Starting rock from scratch.
Gary Majchrzak
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CF has a very nice Majano killer right now.
It's not a "reef safe" butterflyfish, though.
It's not a "reef safe" butterflyfish, though.
parkavenuereef
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Absolutly.. I have one in my reef, eats them all even aptasia of course.. Doesn't touch my stoneys or softies.. Good addition in my book..
Gary Majchrzak
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Mark had a Klein's but I don't know if it took Majano. (It took everything else, though!)
There's no reason to choose a reef compatible butterflyfish in this case- go for a destroyer.
jmo
Mark had a Klein's but I don't know if it took Majano. (It took everything else, though!)
There's no reason to choose a reef compatible butterflyfish in this case- go for a destroyer.
parkavenuereef
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From what I understand they don't all go for them.. Mine had snacked on them.. If nothing else the majano sense the preditor and therefore dont surface which in turn kills them anyways... It's definetly a gamble.. I will say this however if you do get one, and what to ever remove it, good luck...
I once had a racoon butterfly and he was immediatly removed cause he ate on my zoanthids and palys..I removed about 300 by hand. I wish I was kidding. I did inject all of them with lemon juice, not really sure if that made them easier to get off or not. Of course after putting all the rock back in, I did see 2 or 3 pop up. So I put a frag plug over them, they tend to crawl out to get the light, then I take that out. Parkavenuereef, some of the nicest coral I ever got was from you, unfortunately you do know where I got the majanoes from ( I swear I was thinking about the other night around 2am)........ I remember to this day thinking....they don't look so bad, actually kinda look nice. How many years has it been??? They grow very fast in my tank because I feed the tank so heavy. Also why the palys are growing well...
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