mojano anemone control??
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Dejavu
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Klein butterfly, Racoon Butterfly, bi-color angals, and a few other angles will all work. Of course there are risk with adding them to a reef. Kalk has never worked for me. If you cook your rok it will take a long time to rid of them.
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Cully
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Kinda what I'm afraid of. I think a predator will only keep them at bay. I've heard Klein's Butterfly or Bicolor angel. Not sure I want a band aid. I want a cure if possible.
Luckily, we're moving in the next 6 mos to a year. That'll be my opportunity to nuke the little turds. If I can find a relatively benign process to keep them in check until then I'm willing to try. I'm not sure a Bicolor angel is a good idea in an SPS dominated mixed reef.
Luckily, we're moving in the next 6 mos to a year. That'll be my opportunity to nuke the little turds. If I can find a relatively benign process to keep them in check until then I'm willing to try. I'm not sure a Bicolor angel is a good idea in an SPS dominated mixed reef.
Dejavu
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Not ture, many of the predator I list eat mojano as part of their natural diet. This is how I got rid of mine. There are risk, but I keep SPS so the risks are less.
Good Luck!
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Cully
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I'm willing to give it a try for sure. Lord knows, everything else I've hit these things with just seems to tick them off and they continue to multiply. Very pesky :sure:
So which one would be your first choice? Kleins? Racoon? or Bicolor angel?
snk713
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If your keeping lps or zoo's I would not add any of those 3 fish listed, If your only a sps guy I'd try the Kleins first then Racoon. Bicolor angels don't seem to ship well and most if not all end up dead within 6 months.
I've had great success with getting them with Hot water/kalk mix. Turn off all your flow, Hit all the little buggers and let the kalk sit on them for 15 minutes. After that turn your flow back on... Repeat that a week or so later on the ones that you missed.
I've had great success with getting them with Hot water/kalk mix. Turn off all your flow, Hit all the little buggers and let the kalk sit on them for 15 minutes. After that turn your flow back on... Repeat that a week or so later on the ones that you missed.
I did not find any natural method of removal.
I am speaking from experience. My tank went from this:
To this in a matter of months all due to my laziness on killing a few mojanos:
I tried Joes Juice, Vinegar, lemon juice, Kalk paste, butterfly fish, and every other thing suggexted to me and finally ended up tearing it completely down and cooking the rock. Amazingly that didn't killthem all either so I pulled each rock out of the bins seperately and injected the stragglers with straight distilled white vinegar and kal paste and watched them dissolve.
Its getting better now but I lost all but a couple of my prized SPS and LPS and a RBTA.
Don't put it off and don't waste time on natural predators, there aren't any!
I am speaking from experience. My tank went from this:
To this in a matter of months all due to my laziness on killing a few mojanos:
I tried Joes Juice, Vinegar, lemon juice, Kalk paste, butterfly fish, and every other thing suggexted to me and finally ended up tearing it completely down and cooking the rock. Amazingly that didn't killthem all either so I pulled each rock out of the bins seperately and injected the stragglers with straight distilled white vinegar and kal paste and watched them dissolve.
Its getting better now but I lost all but a couple of my prized SPS and LPS and a RBTA.
Don't put it off and don't waste time on natural predators, there aren't any!
lightsluvr
Tangaroa to 500 gallons
I did not find any natural method of removal.
I am speaking from experience. My tank went from this:
To this in a matter of months all due to my laziness on killing a few mojanos:
I tried Joes Juice, Vinegar, lemon juice, Kalk paste, butterfly fish, and every other thing suggexted to me and finally ended up tearing it completely down and cooking the rock. Amazingly that didn't killthem all either so I pulled each rock out of the bins seperately and injected the stragglers with straight distilled white vinegar and kal paste and watched them dissolve.
Its getting better now but I lost all but a couple of my prized SPS and LPS and a RBTA.
Don't put it off and don't waste time on natural predators, there aren't any!
I see a lot of dead SPS in your second photo, and that is tragic. I feel badly for you...
What I don't see in the second photo are any majano anenomes on your rock ... maybe the photos were taken after the cleanup? Are you sure the majanos killed your coral, or was it the "cure"??
Just wondering...
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It was the mojanos stinging everything within reach. I gave a few corals away that were still alive but most were goners. I kept what you see in a QT system for 8 weeks and unfortunately most of it did not survive. A few caps, yellow turbinaria, some zonathids that were infested and required gobs of attention, a green candy and the RBTA are all that survived.
ALL natural predators are hit and miss at best. I have not personally seen a single one that worked and neither has anyone in my reef groups here in Phx. Its not worth the risk to me, get em out and nuke em!
ALL natural predators are hit and miss at best. I have not personally seen a single one that worked and neither has anyone in my reef groups here in Phx. Its not worth the risk to me, get em out and nuke em!
lightsluvr
Tangaroa to 500 gallons
Wow. I've never experienced majanos in those numbers. In most cases, aiptaisa are just annoying, something I eradicated with berghia nudibranchs. I didn't realize how pervasive majanos can be.
Good advice.
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I'll tell you this, mojanos are a PITA. So far I've tried Aiptasia X, Kalk paste, and Aiptasia Control. To no avail. They just keep coming back, not to mention, there are a few unreachable area that they have taken over. So even if I can get to them it's hit or miss, but I know I can't reach em all, so no matter what I do, they come back.
They do sting SPS. Just lost a beautiful orange M. nodosa that I can't reach. They also took out my AOG palys!
I'm going to try the Burgess. My buddy runs an LFS and is going to keep his eye out, as they aren't one of the more readily available species. This is only going to be a defensive move for now. We are planning to move in the next 6-9 months. At that time, I'm going to cook and probably bleach my LR and reseed with some fresh LR.
It's the best plan of attack I can formulate after doing battle with these things for about a year.
They do sting SPS. Just lost a beautiful orange M. nodosa that I can't reach. They also took out my AOG palys!
I'm going to try the Burgess. My buddy runs an LFS and is going to keep his eye out, as they aren't one of the more readily available species. This is only going to be a defensive move for now. We are planning to move in the next 6-9 months. At that time, I'm going to cook and probably bleach my LR and reseed with some fresh LR.
It's the best plan of attack I can formulate after doing battle with these things for about a year.
lightsluvr
Tangaroa to 500 gallons
Did you mean Berghias? The Berghia Nudis only eat Aiptasia. To my knowledge, they do not consume Majanos. Sorry if my previous post was confusing...
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Nope,not berghias, Burgess Butterfly. I've easily controlled Aiptasia in the past with peppermint shrimp. Not a single Aiptasia in my aquariums.
All of the Aiptasia treatments on the market and home remedies, I've listed above, merely tick the mojanos off temporarily. They come back and keep right on multiplying.
I redid about 20% or my rock using macro rocks. I took the old rocks and dunked em in bleach for a few days. They were dried out for weeks. I put them back into my frag system, which is separte. So far, no mojanos. I don't suspect they could live thru and extended freshwater/clorox bath. Problem is, they are completely dead rocks and need to reseed with nitrobacter et al.
I'm not sure how all this will play out, but I'll deal with what the parameter gods throw at me, when the time comes.
All of the Aiptasia treatments on the market and home remedies, I've listed above, merely tick the mojanos off temporarily. They come back and keep right on multiplying.
I redid about 20% or my rock using macro rocks. I took the old rocks and dunked em in bleach for a few days. They were dried out for weeks. I put them back into my frag system, which is separte. So far, no mojanos. I don't suspect they could live thru and extended freshwater/clorox bath. Problem is, they are completely dead rocks and need to reseed with nitrobacter et al.
I'm not sure how all this will play out, but I'll deal with what the parameter gods throw at me, when the time comes.
ziggy
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did you have a burgess butterfly? i was looking at ordering one. i heard that they will eat aiptasia but also eat lps corals. just wondering if you had any problems with it going after your corals?
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WOW can't believe it, my LFS tracked down both a Klein's and a Burgess. We're gonna put some mojano's in with them and see if they take em out before letting them loose in a heavily stocked SPS reef.
