stratos21ss December 18, 2007 December 18, 2007 Great experience purchasing my first live rock over the weekend. Purchased it at Dr. Mac's retail facility. Knowledgeable and considerate help made the purchase fun and enjoyable. I now have the rock (+100lbs of Tonga Nuku Fusion) in a spare 75g awaiting my first reef tank setup. It is basically already cured from Dr Mac's storage of it in his tanks. Here it is in my storage..after two days (the red looking spots have grown noticeably since I have had it..they look like early Spring red maple buds): _Matt
stratos21ss January 2, 2008 Author January 2, 2008 Found this little guy perched on top of the feed pump to the PhosBgone reactor - right at the surface. Have another one about the same color and a taller red-brown one growing elsewhere on the rock. They are hollow in the stem area. What are they? Thanks, _Matt
jamesbuf January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 How big is it? You should post a pic of the other one too. Its best to get rid of any pests early on before they spread out of control.
stratos21ss January 2, 2008 Author January 2, 2008 ..not sure I want to get rid of them just yet...would like to know what they are first...Here's the other one: _Matt
vaironman January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 Anemone family. May be babies green and red buble tip anemones? Give it some strong light and spot feed them everyday for 3 weeks to see if they grow much larger and color up.
zotzer January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 I wouldn't spot feed those....sure look like majano to me. They are awfully cute, when there are one or two of them. Joe's Juice worked on the one I had. Tracy
jamesbuf January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 Anemone family. May be babies green and red buble tip anemones? Give it some strong light and spot feed them everyday for 3 weeks to see if they grow much larger and color up. Sorry man, but I'm pretty sure Tracy is correct. The second reddish one definitely looks like an aptasia. The first one could be a baby green bubble tip anemone, but is most likely a Majano. I'm sure Dr. Mac would check the rock over for true anemones that he could sell for profit. Kill the red one NOW!!!!!
stratos21ss January 2, 2008 Author January 2, 2008 Yes, I looked up Anemonia Majano and that is what both the green and red ones are. They are all up near the top so they are easy to get to.. now looking up the best way to "remove" them..thanks for the help on the ID. _Matt
vaironman January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 It's a 5-10 minutes job with a syrine and kalkwasser job. Nothing to panic over. The green one might be a flower anemone; however, I would think it might be a buble tip anemone first. I'd try to feed it and see what happens. If not, use whichever method you think it works from Davelin's list in another thread to destroy them at no time.
martin January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 Yup, majanos. Kill them now, nothing eats them. Joe's juice is the only thing that has worked for me.
jnguyen4007 January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 so how do you kill them? take the rock with them on out of the water and squirt either joes juice or kalwasser on them? James
stratos21ss January 2, 2008 Author January 2, 2008 ..have the Joe's Juice on the way. In the meantime, I was going to experiment a little and try removing one with some boiling white vinegar
rioreef January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 More power man. Take the rock out then use a hammer and chisle or screwdriver to remove that section of rock. The other methods are for when the rock is in place in the display tank. Just remove that portion of the rock to ensure all is removed then.
jamesbuf January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 ..have the Joe's Juice on the way. In the meantime, I was going to experiment a little and try removing one with some boiling white vinegar BE CAREFUL!!! One of our members tried boiling off some nuisance zoanthids and ended up inhaling the fumes. The toxin inside aerosolized and he ended up breathing it in. I'm pretty sure he was on steroids for a while. Its safest not to boil anything in this hobby. I like the idea of joes juice or simply cutting it out.
martin January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 Man, all you have to do is get some Joe's juice and squirt in into the anemome and its a goner. No need to take the rock out or anything like that. In fact I'm about to go a wack some in my tank. Its just regular maintance.
stratos21ss January 2, 2008 Author January 2, 2008 Yep, further research says I need to get the hammer out. I am glad I found these while the rock is still in storage and not in the new display. A big thank you to all for awakening me to the potential of these pests. I only run an actinic for 2 hrs a day on this vat and this seems to be the reason why they have walked up to the surface to reach what little light I am providing. So things could of been worse if I had not seen them etc. Apparently if you do not do a thorough (100%) eradication from the get go on these things they will spread like crazy - yes I am now starting to get panicked. I am going to take them and the rocks they are attached to completely out of the 75g vat and remove 100% of their bod and the base material where they are attached - with a chisel. Unfortunately, I have one sitting on a +60lb show piece stump looking rock so that guy will be a challenge. The effort now is worth it to ease my worry about the potential for these things. This rock will not go in my new tank until I am positive that they are gone. Welcome to the hobby heheh
stratos21ss January 3, 2008 Author January 3, 2008 Welcome to the hobby heheh The red one: One of the two green ones: Anemonia Majano Destructo: That job is done.
gmubeach January 5, 2008 January 5, 2008 Never had that problem on any of the live rock he sold me, hopefully, you got rid of it! Does anyone know how long it takes for the antespia(SP) to show itself I got a few piece of coral attached to rocks with some on it anyway there was "NONE" in my tank before. I bought a few corals from some guy and when I put them in my tank they came out! Anyway I ran to the store got some treament "SEA-CHEM and a syringe and sapped them anyway I didn't have them for more then a few days in that while in the process of selling some frags of xenia some guy wanted to buy them I warned him of the antespia, but he said he had it in his tank already and that his peppermint shrimp could handle it. Anyway I still have the treatment stuff, and I havn't seen any Antespia?(SP) and its been about 2 weeks does that mean I am in the clear.
stratos21ss January 5, 2008 Author January 5, 2008 I am very pleased (understatement) with the rock I purchased and would expect to get unwelcome hitchhikers on live rock no matter where it's purchased. Keeping it separated from the main display was planned as a type of quarantine anyways so it worked out ok. I think this is part of the usual plan when you start out with live rock so that you can deal with bad guys before putting the live rock in the main display. I will be updating the thread with some pictures of the good hitchhikers that are present as well so everyone can see them too..though some are way too tiny/fast/nocturnal to photograph. The bottom line is that due to my satisfaction with the quality of the live rock itself - I would without hesitation definitely make this purchase again from Dr. Mac. _Matt
magnetic1 January 26, 2008 January 26, 2008 Ive got a majano infestation dont I? http://brakeswapracing.com/ericwong/tank/majano.jpg
YBeNormal January 26, 2008 January 26, 2008 Ive got a majano infestation dont I? http://brakeswapracing.com/ericwong/tank/majano.jpg I hereby nominate you for the Understatement of the Year Award!
zotzer January 26, 2008 January 26, 2008 Ive got a majano infestation dont I? OH......MY......HEAVENS! What have you been feeding them? You thought they were cute, didn't you? Huh? Didn't you? Tracy
stratos21ss January 26, 2008 Author January 26, 2008 Looks like the green ones..so the good news is that they are supposed to be easier to control...mine never came back after I chipped them off.
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