How do I get reid of these?

I've killed 3 majanos using white vinegar and a syringe. I just inject the vinegar diectly into the base of the majano which usually kills it then with the same syringe a couple minutes later dig it out of the hole. Much easier to do if you can get the rock out.
 
Commerical chemical solutions that kill aiptasia do not work on majanos. Your only options are manual removal by carving them out of the rock or picking up a butterfly fish that eats them. I hadn't had success with the vinegar method personally--they usually seem to die only to come back in large droves; however, if it does work for some it's definitely worth trying. The blow torch method is also high successful and satisfying though the side effects may not be worth it :wink:
 
I used lemon juice a few years ago and it worked fine. It took me a couple of tries to get them all. I just bought the little plastic lemon concentrate and a syringe at walmart.
 
so what you guys are saying, just get a syringe and load it with regular vinegar and squirt it directly into the rock anemone? This process is not going to harm other livestock and wont have a big change on the water right? thanks in advance
 
@ddpham wrote:
so what you guys are saying said:
Yes just inject it with a regular syringe from a pharmacy (some will give it to you for free but you will have to explain what it's being used for) with white vinegar you get from a grocery store and it doesn't take much.
I haven't had any issues but I haven't done alot at one time and I always wait until I'm going to do a water change.
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Can someone elaborate on the "blowtorch" method?

I have a couple of colonies of these buggers, and nothign seems to be working on them. I tried tweezers today but I really can't seem to get all the 'nem when I try to tweeze them off. I want to try the syringe method but where in the world can i get needles. I guess I could ask a diabetic but would a pharmacy give me some? I don't want to look like some junkie.

All the rocks that have the coverage are able to be removed but i can't simply dry them out as there is coral on alot of them.

I've taken all day off of work tommorrow to hopefully be able to spend some hours and get them nuked.

Thanks guys.

WIllis
 
I have had great success with a paste of pickling lime. I use a syringe and just place it on top of them. Kills them every time.
 
@lowincwrx wrote:
[I]@ddpham wrote:[/I][quote="so what you guys are saying said:
Yes just inject it with a regular syringe from a pharmacy (some will give it to you for free but you will have to explain what it's being used for) with white vinegar you get from a grocery store and it doesn't take much.
I haven't had any issues but I haven't done alot at one time and I always wait until I'm going to do a water change."]

I would like to suggest that you turn all your flow off, it may not be necessary, but helped me. Also loosen up the syringe by pumping it a few times. I hadn't used mine in a while and it stuck and when I pushed harder aiptasia x (what I was using at the time) went everywhere
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I've got a CBB and I don't think i'd be able to risk tossing a raccoon in due to my corals and stocking issues. I used a butane lighter thing that we had laying around that is intended for lighting grills on a rock, and i'm seeing how those results fare. I can't seem to find anything around to scrape them off the rock after i've nuked them though. Any suggestions?
 
CBB will rarely eat them. You need a more agressive butterfly like a racoon or facula, but they will eat your other corals too.
I've tried the commercial crap, and it doesn't work. I'll give the vinergar idea a try as well.
To give you an idea of how tough they are, I put a rock that had one on it in super hot water and bleach. It created a slime coat and lived in there for 3 days, before I pulled it off the rock myself.
 
@raggedfinfirefish wrote:
I want to try the syringe method but where in the world can i get needles. I guess I could ask a diabetic but would a pharmacy give me some? I don't want to look like some junkie. said:
I asked a small local pharmacy and got the whole :roll: look. I explained that I have a marine salt water aquarium and I needed to inject a pest in a rock with a syringe and that any guage would do and that I would be happy to pay for it. The pharmacy tech just gave me one after the whole story. You could always print this page off and take it with you.
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http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/marinefish/text/393.htm


I have one of these. Before I hade him I had at least 30 majanos..now I have none. The fish also eats regular food (all ). they are hard to find. I have 2 but don't want to part with them. Neither of mine have eaten anything good out of the tank
 
For those curious with my majano anemone trials, I ended up purchasing a butane torch for around 10 dollars from home depot along with a can of butane and sent them back to their creator all while playing Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep now in the Fire". I then went over them with a wire brush, and a secondary flame session. I think I have most of them eliminated but for any survivors or re-colonization I did manage to obtain a needle for my syringe and plan to try the boiling RO water method.

Additionally, I must say that Aptasia X can be considered effective agianst them about 50% of the time, if you apply un godly amounts and leave your tank flow-less for a couple of hours. I found that many of the pests were dead already after attempting that treatment 2 nights ago, but I still burnt them to be safe :). I'm not a pyro, i swear... (I do have 2 cans of butane left over though...)
 
@raggedfinfirefish wrote:
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On the ones you treated with this, please update us in about a month. My experience has been that they will dissapear for a while, but then come back even stonger.
Sounds like the butane worked though.
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heck i found them in my tank in the begining i used lemon juice and it worked ok eventually just put that whole rock outside in the winter for 3 months before it spread to other rocks. Lost a colony of zoas but i didnt want to play with fate. But funny as it was it was sitting on the armrails of my deck and when i put it back in spiders had colonized it. I found them living under water for about a week must have found an air pocket. fish didnt seem all that interested in them though. Looking back i bet that was kinda risky. maybe you shouldnt try that. coud do it in the freezer or just leave it somewhere that the smell wont bother anyone but the critters cant get to it. dunno but hey it worked for me.
 
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