Aiptasia or majano?

Cwd56 · Jan 6, 2023

Looking for opinions on what this is. They’ve spread over the last several months, but not super crazy. Pretty decent size, and a purplish color. F aptasia didn’t kill many, but I may have not used enough.

IKD · Jan 6, 2023

Those don’t look like aiptasia. Can’t confirm majano over something else though.

bradleym · Jan 6, 2023

They look like majano, but then they definitely look different too. Are the tips of the tentacles like little balls, or is that just in the picture? Also, what is a decent size to you? 1 inch? 3 inches?

Eagle_Steve · Jan 6, 2023

Cwd56 said:
Looking for opinions on what this is. They’ve spread over the last several months, but not super crazy. Pretty decent size, and a purplish color. F aptasia didn’t kill many, but I may have not used enough.

100% white light pic and place phone directly to glass will help ID. As well as size. Decent size to one is not decent size to another.

Need to see mouth and the white light will help kill some of the blue blending where we cannot see how the tents are actually formed.

Leaning towards a majano, but there are numerous types of nems that can look like this when all blued out like the pics.

Edit:

Forgot to add, that even if Majano, these guys are easy to remove. See link below. You will just need to use a smaller piece and shorter piece of pipe with a smaller sponge with them. Goal is to block light and flow to make them walk up the pipe. After they do that, just peel off outside of tank and do with what you want. Then rinse pipe with tap and repeat until all are gone. This also prevents pieces being left behind and making new little ones.

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