How to remove Majano
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AntarcticIkeelu
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Easiest ways: remove the rock and spray it with lemon juice, or use aptasia x (this can be used in the tank but shut your flow off)
Harder ways that ensure you will kill them all include taking the rock out and boiling it (please keep in mind this will kill everything on the rock)
A unique way of doing it: is a high powered laser pointer to burn it to death (warning if you have one of these...and you shouldn't, do not shine it through your glass, it will burn and hole in the glass)
Harder ways that ensure you will kill them all include taking the rock out and boiling it (please keep in mind this will kill everything on the rock)
A unique way of doing it: is a high powered laser pointer to burn it to death (warning if you have one of these...and you shouldn't, do not shine it through your glass, it will burn and hole in the glass)
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You could take a syringe and try sucking it out but other than that there isn't much I can think of without moving the rock out.
Were you able to get the aptasia tentacles to wrap around the needle when using aptesia X. I had trouble keeping my hand steady enough. Otherwise they don't ingest the stuff.
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Be careful with Aiptasia-X, Joe's juice and all similar methods. They can work if you do it perfectly. If not, you will spread the pest anemones throughout your tank. I managed to turn one into thousands this way and had them totally overrun my original 75g reef tank. I have not tried the laser frying method. When I can remove a rock, I do and blast it with a torch cigar lighter (very satisfying to incinerate the pests!).
In my (all too extensive) experience with Aiptasis and Majano anemones, biological control is the most foolproof way to deal with them. Berghia nudibranchs work according to most folks, peppermint shrimp (if you luck out and get one that likes the anemones) can work. Peppermints have been a mixed bag for me. I have probably purchased 20 or more over the years and only 2 or 3 ate Aiptasia to any extent; moreover, the shrimp did not live all that long (months in my tank). I have had the most success with 1) a matted filefish and 2) a Klein's butterfly. Both of these have wiped out Aiptasia populations in two tanks and the best part is that they live a long time and eat any new ones that pop up. Feed them daily with meaty foods so that they don't develop a taste for any of your corals. The Klein's butterfly was an LPS nipper until I started feeding mysis shrimp to that tank. The Klein's is an attractive fish and reputedly hardier than the copper banded butterfly. The filefish is so ugly that it is cute.
I bought mine online, quarantined them with copper for a month and then let them munch away. No Aiptasia for almost a year now.
Bruce
In my (all too extensive) experience with Aiptasis and Majano anemones, biological control is the most foolproof way to deal with them. Berghia nudibranchs work according to most folks, peppermint shrimp (if you luck out and get one that likes the anemones) can work. Peppermints have been a mixed bag for me. I have probably purchased 20 or more over the years and only 2 or 3 ate Aiptasia to any extent; moreover, the shrimp did not live all that long (months in my tank). I have had the most success with 1) a matted filefish and 2) a Klein's butterfly. Both of these have wiped out Aiptasia populations in two tanks and the best part is that they live a long time and eat any new ones that pop up. Feed them daily with meaty foods so that they don't develop a taste for any of your corals. The Klein's butterfly was an LPS nipper until I started feeding mysis shrimp to that tank. The Klein's is an attractive fish and reputedly hardier than the copper banded butterfly. The filefish is so ugly that it is cute.
I bought mine online, quarantined them with copper for a month and then let them munch away. No Aiptasia for almost a year now.
Bruce
