How to get rid of majanos

[Hugo Garcia]

hi guys, I've added live rock to my tank and now I see there are a bunch of small manjanos showing up. What is he best way to get rids of them? I've added hermit crabs, but they are not doing much? Should I add a peppermint shrimp? Will they help?

Thanks

 

[bo0sted2g]

hi guys, I've added live rock to my tank and now I see there are a bunch of small manjanos showing up. What is he best way to get rids of them? I've added hermit crabs, but they are not doing much? Should I add a peppermint shrimp? Will they help?

Thanks

Peppermints are hit or miss. they may help or they may not eat any of them.
There is the majano wand or aiptasia-x or boiling hot lemon juice in a syringe.

 

[Homer Allman]

file fish love them and they are a cool different type of fish.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Btw filefish are not reef safe. Keep that in mind if you plan on getting coral in the future. You cant go wrong with aiptasia x or a majano wand imo.

 

[Homer Allman]

Btw filefish are not reef safe. Keep that in mind if you plan on getting coral in the future. You cant go wrong with aiptasia x or a majano wand imo.

I've had file fish in a reef tank a few times and they didn't bother anything but aiptasia. Reef safe is debatable.

 

[Hugo Garcia]

Btw filefish are not reef safe. Keep that in mind if you plan on getting coral in the future. You cant go wrong with aiptasia x or a majano wand imo.

I'm buying some aiptasia x right now on Amazon. Should I target even the tiny little ones? I sometime spot micro majanos, but if I remove the rock to kill it I lose sight of them. So should I just target all of them with aiptasia x?

 

[andrew james]

I've had good luck with Joes' Juice.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

I've had file fish in a reef tank a few times and they didn't bother anything but aiptasia. Reef safe is debatable.

I have never kept a filefish, but they have a reputation for sometimes eating corals and nems. I guess it depends on the individual fish.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

I'm buying some aiptasia x right now on Amazon. Should I target even the tiny little ones? I sometime spot micro majanos, but if I remove the rock to kill it I lose sight of them. So should I just target all of them with aiptasia x?

Kill off the tiny ones. You want to control these things as soon as possible otherwise they can spread quickly.

 

[mfinn]

Good luck getting rid of them.
File fish don't go after majanoas. I've tried 3.
Peppermint shrimp don't touch them either.
I tried a Copper Banded Butterfly fish, no good.

The only way I've found that gets rid of them is kalk paste, and it takes several rounds, or manual removal.

 

[Hugo Garcia]

Kill off the tiny ones. You want to control these things as soon as possible otherwise they can spread quickly.

Will the Aptasia X harm my hermit crabs?

 

[cracker]

Now mfinn says a copperband doesn't work. This fish always worked for me. Go figure . The kalk paste does work very well .

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Will the Aptasia X harm my hermit crabs?

I doubt it will. The aiptasia x will naturally degrade in the tank so it wont be around long.

 

[reeferfoxx]

I had luck boiling water(ro/di) and spot blasting them with a baster. It cooks the tissue and cells.

 

[mfinn]

Now mfinn says a copperband doesn't work. This fish always worked for me. Go figure . The kalk paste does work very well .

I've got a really nice CBB in my 233 now and it's over run with pink tip majanos.
No aiptasias.

 

[leptang]

I use a hot glue gun. I pull the rock out of the water, then circle the outside of of the pest with hot glue then fill it in, in casing it with hot glue.
It works for me

 

[Twisted_Blenny]

Aptasia X wont work. Kalk paste will! if you can take the rock out and torch the majanos with a lighter that works great too lol

 

[cracker]

I thought they were pretty much the same. Man, More research !

 

[deedubz]

I bought a few peppermints several months ago because of an aiptasia hitchhiker. Well, they certainty made quick work of it...plus a bunch of snails. They also loved stealing food from my anemones. Fortunately for me, my snails, and my nems, the last one died last week. Even with target feeding, they were trifling little jerks. YMMV

No more peppermints for me.

 

[Fercho]

Apearentlly there is no cure for ridding majanos...
Someone please come up with an efective method to kill them completely please. :mad: