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mario8402 · 04-16-2007, 11:25 AM

how do you kill them? if I break it at the foot, will it regenerate?

amcarrig · 04-16-2007, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by telman2010

I've had 4 or 5 majano's in my tank for several years. I never paid them much attention because they weren't spreading or bothering anything. In the last 6 months they have gone wild. My 4 or 5 has turned into 40 or 50. They are becoming a nuisance and I spend quite a bit of time killing them off. My advice, get rid of them now before you're in the situation I'm in. Good Luck.

That's exactly how mine spread too. One day a few then BAM, major infestation.

telman2010 · 04-16-2007, 07:04 PM

I use a syringe with white vinegar in it. Inject them with a little vinegar and then flip them out of the rock with the needle. Works most of the time. Every once in awhile you get one that you just can't dig out of the rock. I have to give up on it for awhile, let it expand back out and try again. Good luck.

apollo'sowner · 04-16-2007, 07:40 PM

take superglue gel, touch the anemone with the nozzel and make it retract into its hole, squirt some glue into the hole and over it and let it harden for an hour or two and pop the hardened glue off and the anemone will come out embedded in the glue plug. If it doesn't come out squeeze some more into and over the hole and remove it a few days to a week later after the anemone has died. Works great for aptasias too.

omard · 04-16-2007, 08:36 PM

Thanks for response folks,

Did yours look like this?

Still cannot find photo of similar majano (?)...been thru all of webmedia anemone ID's...nothing quite the same.

When the anemones did great multiplications in tank, did they do so by division or other means?

Am trying to make decision on wiping out a rather nice looking creature that my clowns seem to like alot. --- seems they ought to know the difference.

THX

OmarD

amcarrig · 04-17-2007, 05:32 AM

It's hard to tell how big that anemone is. Can you take a pic of it next to something for scale? Also, a good picture of the oral disk might help as well.

omard · 04-17-2007, 07:53 AM

amcarrig,

Here is pic showing oral disk....(bi-color blenny peeking out on right)

Here is pic with large anem (12 in+) and mature female clown (5")

Hope that will give idea on size and appearance.

Thanks,

OmarD

amcarrig · 04-17-2007, 08:17 AM

The size is throwing me off. Mine never got bigger than the size of a dime but yours look significantly larger than that.

mario8402 · 04-17-2007, 08:32 AM

mine is small like that first pic and has some white things around its mouth.

omard · 04-17-2007, 08:55 AM

Yes, that is why am wondering if these are really Majanos or not. They are uniformly about 3-5 inches across.

At the rate they have been dividing over last year or so, I think I will keep them around until I either get a positive ID or they start to get out of hand.

Thanks for all,

OmarD