My Nasty Pest, not Apitasia, looks like a button polyp...

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Did anyone guess what it was? I posted picutres already about it on the newbie forum asking, and people said it was Glass Anemones. I persisted, as it just had to much colour for glass anemones. But it was not a button polyp as it was spreading like crazy and stinging my leathers like mad, even my mushrooms were getting hurt by it.

Well I finally figured it out, while browsing this article...
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/5/aafeature2

It is a Majano Anemone. The ways I have heard to kill it are the same as Glass Anemones; boiling water, joe's juice, kalkwasser, lime juice.

So I am continuing my struggle against it. It seems very resiliant, if you do not inject it directly in the stem it soemtimes survives, and they shrink up fast when you touch them.
 
Gildurath said:
Did anyone guess what it was? I posted picutres already about it on the newbie forum asking, and people said it was Glass Anemones. I persisted, as it just had to much colour for glass anemones. But it was not a button polyp as it was spreading like crazy and stinging my leathers like mad, even my mushrooms were getting hurt by it.

Well I finally figured it out, while browsing this article...
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/5/aafeature2

It is a Majano Anemone. The ways I have heard to kill it are the same as Glass Anemones; boiling water, joe's juice, kalkwasser, lime juice.

So I am continuing my struggle against it. It seems very resiliant, if you do not inject it directly in the stem it soemtimes survives, and they shrink up fast when you touch them.
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Thats right, they can be hard to get rid of sometimes, a syringe with boiling water, just get as close as you can before you see a reaction from the nem and BAM..have it......After the first syringe full, just keep forcing the boiling water into the rock in the area where it is, that has always been my route and they have never come back....

Niko
 
I used kalk paste when I had a majano outbreak. Well, maybe 3 in a 90g isn't an outbreak, but the kalk paste did the trick. I had only 1 pop back up several weeks later and hit it again with kalk paste. I haven't had anymore since.
 
I inherited the tank and I literally have about 70, and I think they are spreading faster then I can kill them. No one has joe's juice or kalk in my city. I might have to go online.
 
Wow... that's quite a few of them... might be easier to treat some of the worst pieces of rock outside the tank to keep from shocking the system with that much Joe's Juice or kalk (like in a Rubbermaid container).
 
It is true. I am concerned with killing everything on the rock though. Mostly I just have to many shrooms and these manajo anemones so I could do that.

Will killing off an entire rock be harmful when I put it back in the tank? Like will it cause a mini cycle? Or will it just seed peacfully?
 
You're right -- you wouldn't want to kill everything off of the rock... I guess I should have clarified what I meant a little better. Instead of dosing all the majanos in the tank, I'd pick the rocks that are covered by them the most (and easily removed from the tank), place them in a 5g bucket or sizeable Rubbermaid with tank water, dose the majanos, give it several minutes for the Joe's Juice or kalk paste to "skin," then gently place the rocks back into the tank. Once the Joe's Juice or kalk paste skins, it dissolves pretty slowly (couple of days). The concern about dosing that many majanos in tank at once is the amount of stray, liquidy Joe's Juice or kalk paste that gets dissolved into the tank water before it skins over. That's what will alter your water chemistry. If it's not heavily disturbed, it should stay skinned over and not have such a drastic effect on your tank water. If you frequently dose your tank with a caclium or alkalinity additive, I'd suggest testing your water before dosing either additive while your working with the Joe's Juice or kalk paste to kill off the majanos -- just to keep from accidentally raising your levels too high.
 
big pepermint shrimp is the way to go, wipe out anemones by huge areas over night
 
I have a peppermint shrimp. He does not even look at these anemones. HE totally ignores them. I have only seen that Pepp eat the Glass Anemones, do they also eat the manajo?

Ah thanks FSN77, I have never used Kalk paste or juice juice so did not know how it worked. My local lfs does not have joe's, I will go see if they have the kalk today. Thanks for the input and clarification.
 
Ok. So I have been blasting these puppies with boiling water all weekend. And man are they hardy, they are slowly going away. I also tested my params tonight, sunday.

Tank: 55g
Salinity: 1.0235
PH:8.2
Temp:80
Calcium: 480
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: I think 0, but maybe .25, but very hard to tell, colours are very similiar.

So here is my question, could my killing all these manajo anemones be causing ammonia? My tank is about 6 years old, but was recently moved about 6 weeks ago, with a 50% water change due to volume during the move. I have alot of brown algae, green hair algae and a tiny bit of red cyano.
 
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