 Majano
Anemones - I first saw these in a fellow aquarist tank and
thought... wow those look really nice they were green and had red
spots on them and were only about the size of a dime so I persuaded
him to scrap me 3 of them out of his tank. Well I hurried home
and put them into my tank hoping they would grow, well they
disappeared at first but before I knew it my entire tank was
infested with them. My SPS corals were dieing faster than I
could remove the anemones, they would propagate at the base of the
SPS corals then slowly move up the branches killing as they went
along. As of right now (02/16/2008) I have mostly eradicated
them thanks to a needle and lots of kalk paste, it seems injecting
them directly with a concentrated kalk paste kills them 80% of the
time, the other 20% split and multiply. Update 02-18-09 Wel
Kalk paste ended up not working out they just kept splitting and
multiplying, I also tried hot water it worked for a short time but
not long enough. NOW I have a Racoon Butterfly and within a matter
of 2 weeks I now have no more Majanos!!! Maybe one or 2 in a hole in
the rock but other than that NOTHING. Success!!! So far *knock on
wood* the butterfly has not bothered of my SPS that I can tell anyway. |
Majano
Anemones - I first saw these in a fellow aquarist tank and
thought... wow those look really nice they were green and had red
spots on them and were only about the size of a dime so I persuaded
him to scrap me 3 of them out of his tank. Well I hurried home
and put them into my tank hoping they would grow, well they
disappeared at first but before I knew it my entire tank was
infested with them. My SPS corals were dieing faster than I
could remove the anemones, they would propagate at the base of the
SPS corals then slowly move up the branches killing as they went
along. As of right now (02/16/2008) I have mostly eradicated
them thanks to a needle and lots of kalk paste, it seems injecting
them directly with a concentrated kalk paste kills them 80% of the
time, the other 20% split and multiply. Update 02-18-09 Wel
Kalk paste ended up not working out they just kept splitting and
multiplying, I also tried hot water it worked for a short time but
not long enough. NOW I have a Racoon Butterfly and within a matter
of 2 weeks I now have no more Majanos!!! Maybe one or 2 in a hole in
the rock but other than that NOTHING. Success!!! So far *knock on
wood* the butterfly has not bothered of my SPS that I can tell anyway.
Green
Bubble Algae (Valonia) - This was another horrible outbreak I
had thanks to lack of attention on my part. They came into the
tank on some frags and a few corals I purchase at the LFS's around
town and I didn't think much of it at the time, however I think
these little guys multiply faster than the Majano Anemones. My
first attempt at eradication was simply trying to scrape it off the
rock and suck it out of the tank with a siphon hose, that worked to
an extent but it was messy and they seemed to come back within a
week. My next attempt was a little costly but worked very well
and was surprisingly easy!!! I purchase 25 green emerald crabs plus
another 5 or 10 that were already in the tank. At first
nothing seemed to happen then it seems over night all the bubble
algae was just gone and has not been back since, however those
emerald crabs are still in the tank some of them are rather large
now... maybe Ill make some Gumbo one day.