Bye Bye Majano

RonD · #1 10/26/2007, 03:18 PM

After trying many different methods and spending hard earned money... good ol scalding hot RO/DI water from a larger syringe does the trick every time. Just stick the syringe straight down into the Majano and squeeze the hot water in... Death follows very shortly there after. Dirt cheap and it does work

I have squirted the hot water into Majano's living in blastos, zoa's, candy canes etc with little or no damage to the surrounding corals.

thought this was worth passing along being as Majano's do cause damage to what ever they touch and once they start spreading... look out.

zach0660 · #2 10/26/2007, 11:17 PM

I know of a guy that got his filefish to eat em'

...if that helps

WarrenAmy&Maddy · #3 10/27/2007, 12:49 AM

i bleached about 30-40pounds of nice LR
to sterilize the rock of the majanos (and everything else unfortunately!)... i didnt want to take a chance on there being more.

RonD · #4 10/27/2007, 01:28 AM

I'm sorry but bleaching to me to is a huge waste of life. cringe!!

Wrench · #5 10/27/2007, 08:17 AM

Kalk paste

Aptasia FEAR me

cowboyswife · #6 10/27/2007, 08:38 AM

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Originally posted by Wrench
Kalk paste Aptasia FEAR me

Yup, me too! Im the kalk paste queen in our house! No aptasia can withstand my kalk! lol

Wrench · #7 10/27/2007, 09:02 AM

I see you're a Jeff Dunham fan

WarrenAmy&Maddy · #8 10/27/2007, 09:35 AM

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Originally posted by RonD
I'm sorry but bleaching to me to is a huge waste of life. cringe!!

have you dealt w/ majanos in your system?

might do a search here on RC for photos of majanos who have taken over veteran reefers (who many of us have heard about) tanks - complete w/ pics showing majanos in every crack and crevice in their system!

then you might understand the "...huge waste of life."

cowboyswife · #9 10/27/2007, 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by Wrench
I see you're a Jeff Dunham fan

Definitely!! lol

RonD · #10 10/29/2007, 12:39 AM

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Originally posted by WarrenAmy&Maddy
have you dealt w/ majanos in your system?

might do a search here on RC for photos of majanos who have taken over veteran reefers (who many of us have heard about) tanks - complete w/ pics showing majanos in every crack and crevice in their system!

then you might understand the "...huge waste of life."

I have dealt with them.... thus I pass along how I got rid of them. They are aggressive and I can see how if they were left for along period of time with out intervention..could take over. But even if this was the case and enitre rocks were coverd, a person could still do as I suggested and clean them off the rocks with out bleeching them. they like light so a person would most likely only find them on the upper lit portions of their rocks. Even if they did venture into a crevise, the larger type syringes would still be able to reach them and get blasted.

I am not professing to be a majano expert.. just passing along a very simple and basically free way of getting the lil beggers with out introducing all sorts of chemicals that did more harm than good when I tried them.

Kannin · #11 10/29/2007, 01:55 AM

I have been fighting 3 mojanos and 3 aiptasia for a month with Joe's Juice. They keep coming back. I think they like it. I'll try the boiling water. RODI... of course.

ryan_paskadi · #12 10/29/2007, 02:14 AM

I have had no problems just pulling the majanos off.

conorwynne · #13 10/29/2007, 06:58 AM

Yep, I just puled them off with my (gloved) fingers.

Problem solved. Aiptasia's are another matter altogether, my poor (dead) filefish ate practically all of them, and I had massive colonies of them. Unfortunately he died when the tank crashed while I was in France on holidays this summer.

I have restarted the nano, and now I have a few aiptasia's back. New filefish is already on order. Great solution they are. Especially when you put the infested rock into the fuge / sump withthe fish. He just gobbles them all up in no time at all. Way better than my butterly did.

regards
Conor.

RonD · #14 10/29/2007, 09:51 AM

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Originally posted by Kannin
I have been fighting 3 mojanos and 3 aiptasia for a month with Joe's Juice. They keep coming back. I think they like it. I'll try the boiling water. RODI... of course.

I used what you used and it killed a $100 Tang after it ingested some to the extra, the Majanos spat out. Trying to say "dont eat that" to a lightening fast tang was impossible. That however did put a quick end to me ever using it again.

AZDesertRat · #15 10/29/2007, 10:58 AM

conorwynne, which filefish did you have? I am being overrun by mojanos and would be willing to try one.