Should I Be Worried?

[Jimbo Bucket]

Should I Be Worried?

 

[Rybren]

I'd guess that it might be a majano, but I'm not an expert. @Lionfish Lair ?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Neither of us are experts, but you are indeed right!

 

[JaimeAdams]

@Jimbo Bucket That is indeep a majano on a piece of anthelia that you got at the last club meeting that came out of bob nells tank. Am I warm yet?

If it is still on the small rubble I would cut the coral off and toss the rubble.

 

[Jimbo Bucket]

I think you are correct.
It was on the piece of rubble, but then I glued the rubble very large piece of rock.
It transferred to the piece of rock in less then a day......
The rubble and Anthelia are out, and the Majano "removed", but the large rock was left in the tank the entire time.
I'll let you know in a couple weeks if pieces of the Majano that got away reestablished anywhere.
Maybe now I'll start using a quarantine tank.......

 

[JaimeAdams]

I'm sorry that happened. How did you "remove" it? We recently broke down Greg Swiechs tank after he had major majano infestation from the same source as yours. In my experiences I haven't had them spread as fast as aptasia.

 

[Jimbo Bucket]

Scraped it off, scooped out all the big pieces, little ones got away.
As soon as the first piece came off I knew I chosen the wrong path, the piece of rock it was one was a giant 25 lb'er.
I should have at least started a suction tube into a bucket to suck and dump.

 

[JaimeAdams]

I have found that covering them with super glue gel seems to work well. Hopefully you won't get a plague from all the missed pieces.

I am thinking that maybe I should schedule a club meeting on hitch hikers and pests in the reef aquarium and how to effectively deal with them