What fish will eat MOJO Anenome's??

[Glennw]

Are there any fish that will eat MOJO Anenome's?? And if they are, Are they reef safe?

[jd474]

Several filefish will eat majano's, but after they eat them, they'll generally move on to your LPS corals.

[Amp2020]

I've heard that some file fish will eat them. Haven't seen it though.

[Glennw]

Has anybody had sucess with any type of file fish or butterflys? If so which ones? I've used kalk paste but them seem to keep coming back. Or what does everybody else use?

[Scooter902]

I have a few of these as well. They are incredible tough.... Worse the Aiptasia in MO.

[jd474]

Originally Posted by Glennw

Has anybody had sucess with any type of file fish or butterflys? If so which ones? I've used kalk paste but them seem to keep coming back. Or what does everybody else use?

Matted filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus) are probably the most common in the trade, and are almost guaranteed to eat majano/aiptasia, but again, they are rarely reef safe.

[Glennw]

I've heard Racoon Butterfly will eat the manjo anenome's, but are they reef safe? Has anybody had experience with one of these in their reef tank?

[Richard101]

Raccoon butterflies are great for them but they will most likely go after coral first.

[starfish prime]

Originally Posted by jd474

Matted filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus) are probably the most common in the trade, and are almost guaranteed to eat majano/aiptasia, but again, they are rarely reef safe.

+1. I threw one in my 90 gal reef at work, and it helped. Has not started to mess with corals....yet. Another thing I used to rid the reef of majano anemones was Stop Aptasia, and I used it the same I would if I were treating for Aptasia. It worked in every spot that I injected.

[robs.mark]

IMO butterfly are better left in the ocean. Very hard to feed.

I have a great method for removing majanos. Take a small shell, place it over the top of the anemone, cupping it if you like. The nem will move into the shell, trying to source light, and when it does you simply remove the shell. Easy!

[Glennw]

Originally Posted by robs.mark

IMO butterfly are better left in the ocean. Very hard to feed.

I have a great method for removing majanos. Take a small shell, place it over the top of the anemone, cupping it if you like. The nem will move into the shell, trying to source light, and when it does you simply remove the shell. Easy!

Wow, That a different one I haven't heard before. I like that!!! No chemicals or fish that may eat corals. I think I'll try this. I guess you might need a lot of shells to start with. When they are on the shells and you remove the shells from your tank, do you wash the anenome's off with hot water and then re-use the shells?

[robs.mark]

Originally Posted by Glennw

Wow, That a different one I haven't heard before. I like that!!! No chemicals or fish that may eat corals. I think I'll try this. I guess you might need a lot of shells to start with. When they are on the shells and you remove the shells from your tank, do you wash the anenome's off with hot water and then re-use the shells?

Well im fortunate enough to live 30 seconds walk to the beach so i just usually borrow the shell form the beach and return it with the anemone. Im not a hippy but i really dont like killing things, so i usually take pistols shrimp, pest crabs etc to the beach! I have had success with this method on the odd occasion a majano has hitched into my display. I only took one shell when i tried it, but i made sure it was a good fit.

[Gawain1974]

Originally Posted by Richard101

Raccoon butterflies are great for them but they will most likely go after coral first.

My friend used a raccoon butterfly to eradicate mojos, but she had to move all the corals she wanted to preserve into another system beforehand so the raccoon wouldn't decimate them. A rather radical method, but she'd been battling them for years and this was her last solution.

Originally Posted by robs.mark

Well im fortunate enough to live 30 seconds walk to the beach so i just usually borrow the shell form the beach and return it with the anemone. Im not a hippy but i really dont like killing things, so i usually take pistols shrimp, pest crabs etc to the beach! I have had success with this method on the odd occasion a majano has hitched into my display. I only took one shell when i tried it, but i made sure it was a good fit.

That's cool, but I've always heard that you don't want to release anything back into the wild after it's been in your tank.

[robs.mark]

Originally Posted by Gawain1974

My friend used a raccoon butterfly to eradicate mojos, but she had to move all the corals she wanted to preserve into another system beforehand so the raccoon wouldn't decimate them. A rather radical method, but she'd been battling them for years and this was her last solution.



That's cool, but I've always heard that you don't want to release anything back into the wild after it's been in your tank.

Well id say the Indian ocean is big enough to rectify any problems a majano could make, besides most of my livestock is from there anyway!

[BlueFaceAngel]

double saddle butterflys will eat them and are generally reef safe and easy to keep