Natural killer for Majanos

DannerX · 11/21/2006, 03:26 PM

Hi

I have searched and haven't found a reliable answers of the question " does anyone know a good treatment/cure or a natural killer of Majano anemones? "

I have about 3-500 and they spread like xxxx !!!

( don't have any aiptasia my cobberbanded butterfly ate these !)

JonK · 11/21/2006, 03:32 PM

Time to break out the kalk paste. I've not heard of any type of natural means of control.

Jon

derekman · 11/21/2006, 03:47 PM

dude, you might have to start over, there is no way to get rid of that many majanos without screwing up your water chem anyway. unless you take out all your corals and inverts and go nuts with coral eating fish until the problem is gone. I did that in my 30g I had a few butterflies and something else, I just dropped the infested rocks in and in a few weeks it'd be clean. good luck!

DannerX · 11/21/2006, 03:54 PM

Yea I did fear that !
I have tried with a lot allready,- joes juice,- HCL,- ca and manually taking away. But it all come back pretty soon.
What kind of butterfly fishes do you think eat theses majanos ??

aquarius77 · 11/21/2006, 04:04 PM

I had some and slowly removed them for fear of them spreading. I currently "keep" 2 majanos and have not had them spread in months?
One is completely surrounded by anthilia coarl now and the other is well on its way to the same fate. I am waiting it out to see what happens, the majano stings the anthilia but thats stuff dont really care, it has grown around the one majano completely, just out of reach of the majanos sting.

I have tried a few things but the only thing that gets em out for me is to take a knife and cut rock around them, LR is pretty brittle in most cases and if ya cant reach it then take out the rock they are on and dig em off. HTH

DannerX · 11/21/2006, 04:08 PM

Its true that the manually work maybe works best, but I have a problem with that. I have about 400 kgs LR and a aquarium pretty big, so its absolutely my last way, to empty and clean all the rocks. Therefore I looked for a "biological way".

Fig · 11/21/2006, 04:18 PM

I found 4 or 5 of them on some new live rock i put in my tank. Since my tank is only a 30 cube and there were only 4 or 5 I stuck some of that coral epoxy on them. SEE YA!! Not really realistic for a large tank though.

aquarius77 · 11/21/2006, 04:39 PM

Welcome to Reef Central btw,

Try a needle and inject them with some hot vinegar. I personally have never tried this method but hear of some having sucess this way.

Travis L. Stevens · 11/21/2006, 04:49 PM

I have great success with vinegar injections, but you need to make sure that you only inject a few at a time since you have so many. Don't want too much Acetic Acid in your tank.

dc · 11/21/2006, 05:14 PM

I've read that racoon butterflies will eat them, but you may lose other things in your tank.

stevem650 · 11/21/2006, 06:07 PM

I put a racoon butterfly in my 150 reef and he ate them like candy. He would eat all that he was able to get to and then my problem began. He started on my zoa's and other softies and I had to remove him. My mojano's are back and I have to live with them. I use Kalk powder mixed with r/o water which is I guess the same as joe's juice. I now hit the mojano's weekly and I don't let them overtake the tank.

11/21/2006, 03:26 PM	#1
DannerX Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denmark Posts: 7	Natural killer for Majanos Hi I have searched and haven't found a reliable answers of the question " does anyone know a good treatment/cure or a natural killer of Majano anemones? " I have about 3-500 and they spread like xxxx !!! ( don't have any aiptasia my cobberbanded butterfly ate these !)

11/21/2006, 03:47 PM	#3
derekman Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 245	dude, you might have to start over, there is no way to get rid of that many majanos without screwing up your water chem anyway. unless you take out all your corals and inverts and go nuts with coral eating fish until the problem is gone. I did that in my 30g I had a few butterflies and something else, I just dropped the infested rocks in and in a few weeks it'd be clean. good luck! __________________ Derek Current Tank Info: 82 total gallons reef, 390w PC 150 MH, LPS SPS

11/21/2006, 04:49 PM	#9
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	I have great success with vinegar injections, but you need to make sure that you only inject a few at a time since you have so many. Don't want too much Acetic Acid in your tank. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

11/21/2006, 05:14 PM	#10
dc Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wyoming Posts: 44,684	I've read that racoon butterflies will eat them, but you may lose other things in your tank. __________________ Debi ~60 Cube~ Why? Because I said so of course. -Sent via Tapatalk Smoke Signals-

11/21/2006, 06:07 PM	#11
stevem650 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Boca Raton, Fla Posts: 712	I put a racoon butterfly in my 150 reef and he ate them like candy. He would eat all that he was able to get to and then my problem began. He started on my zoa's and other softies and I had to remove him. My mojano's are back and I have to live with them. I use Kalk powder mixed with r/o water which is I guess the same as joe's juice. I now hit the mojano's weekly and I don't let them overtake the tank. __________________ Red Sea Reefer 750, Apex, AquaMaxx Q3 Skimmer, 2 tunze 6105, 4 x Radion XR30 G4 Pros, Reef Octopus Varios 8 return pump, 150lbs rock. Current Tank Info: RedSea Reefer 750

11/21/2006, 03:32 PM	#2
JonK Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 1,394	Time to break out the kalk paste. I've not heard of any type of natural means of control. Jon

11/21/2006, 03:54 PM	#4
DannerX Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denmark Posts: 7	Yea I did fear that ! I have tried with a lot allready,- joes juice,- HCL,- ca and manually taking away. But it all come back pretty soon. What kind of butterfly fishes do you think eat theses majanos ??

11/21/2006, 04:04 PM	#5
aquarius77 Moved On Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highland, Il Posts: 2,198	I had some and slowly removed them for fear of them spreading. I currently "keep" 2 majanos and have not had them spread in months? One is completely surrounded by anthilia coarl now and the other is well on its way to the same fate. I am waiting it out to see what happens, the majano stings the anthilia but thats stuff dont really care, it has grown around the one majano completely, just out of reach of the majanos sting. I have tried a few things but the only thing that gets em out for me is to take a knife and cut rock around them, LR is pretty brittle in most cases and if ya cant reach it then take out the rock they are on and dig em off. HTH

11/21/2006, 04:08 PM	#6
DannerX Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denmark Posts: 7	Its true that the manually work maybe works best, but I have a problem with that. I have about 400 kgs LR and a aquarium pretty big, so its absolutely my last way, to empty and clean all the rocks. Therefore I looked for a "biological way".

11/21/2006, 04:18 PM	#7
Fig Registered Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: Iowa Posts: 817	I found 4 or 5 of them on some new live rock i put in my tank. Since my tank is only a 30 cube and there were only 4 or 5 I stuck some of that coral epoxy on them. SEE YA!! Not really realistic for a large tank though.

11/21/2006, 04:39 PM	#8
aquarius77 Moved On Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highland, Il Posts: 2,198	Welcome to Reef Central btw, Try a needle and inject them with some hot vinegar. I personally have never tried this method but hear of some having sucess this way.