is this a baddie. aiptasia or majuro? found him and a smaller one on some lr, not yet in tank. i can kalk them in a second if necessary. very accessible spot.
looks like an aiptasia hard to tell in the pic.
I agree with GreenFishy
Looks like aiptasia to me. I would kill all the flow in the tank and then carefully lower a syringe with your kalk mix over the anemone and slowly pile kalk on top of it.(it will sink) You should try to target the center of the stomach and avoid touching the tentacles forcing it to close up prematurely. Then it will begin to close up and crawl into it’s hole. I would cover it in kalk. Then it will melt away. I would monitor carefully for the next month as this is plenty large enough to have left spawn around.
If this was in the display tank: Peppermint shrimp in the display tank could help to knock off any spawn that would come up, but likely won’t take out large ones like this one.(at least it looks large to me in the photo. Though I know you are good with your macro photography)
Syringe: doesn’t have to be a real syringe that was purchased at a drug store. I typically use a 10ml syringe which was included with a hobby grade test kit for grabbing water to test.
Kalk mix: Kalkwasser with just a little bit of RO water to make a fairly thick slurry.
BTW, this may be more info then you need Paul, but thought I would include it for others reading. Glad to see these were not in your display yet. QT works.
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thanks, jon and everyone else. i bought the rock from pumpdogs in n wilmington and also found 2 rocks infested with bubble algae. he’s selling other stuff. i would avoid buying from him.
that last pic looks liike a mojano anemone right next to it, might want to kill that too!
i also think i see a baby aiptasia in the left nook there
def. looks like a mojano. but im still in the air about the aptasia. kinda resembles a rock anemone to me. but just to stay on the safe side, kalk it.
it do look like a mojano i had a few felt bad killing them all the ones i have seen have great color. they seem harder to kill i was using aiptasia x and have had real good luck killing aiptasia with that. not sure but i think its smells like food so you can get them to try and eat it. maby try using some mysis juce in the kalk mix.
found 4 total. took the offending rocks out. they’re now in the open air for about 2 weeks or more. that should do it, and then i swirl them in fresh water to sweep off the dead bugs. they’ll be just base rock, or is my thinking incorrect?
if you do it that way i’d cure the rock afterwards just to avoid anything causing a cycle.
tim, what about boiling the rock? that’s Glenn’s [martinfamily’s] suggestion? wouldn’t that absolutely prevent a cycle. i will be using 25-75 lbs of the new rock to supplement about 90 lbs of by old fully mature lr now in my dt.
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I would not go that far. I would bet I could look into anyone in the clubs tank and find one animal that some people would consider a pest. If you qt properly you can effectively eliminate them from reaching your system.
The thing about the pest anemones is they can be effectively controlled by going through and killing them off as much as possible once a month. The problem is the periods of time when life is busy and we don’t pay attention to our tanks for an extended period of time. Then they get out of control and have people giving up on the hobby. I ignore my tanks a lot and just get some bacterial growth and slower growth out of my corals. No pests get out of control that can’t easily be driven away simply because they are not present.
And that is an majano anemone in the newer posted images. Those are best dealt with immediately as biological control is next to impossible currently.
It looks like aptasia and manjo for sure. if it is only one rock and has no corals on it i would just boil rock if can and then do several fresh water rinses. it may discolor rock slightly but will get rid of all pest on rock. i have done this many times and works. as jon said we all have pest…my only pest i am battling now is flat worms. if not possible to remove rock then a good kalk dose with needle in mouth will elimenate. good luck and will check back to see results
Note: I used kalk a long time ago at home and I currently use it on clients tanks for my job just to keep things under control. At home I tyipcally will frag any corals away and bleech or boil the rock/plug or what ever.
thnx all. i gotta check carefully.
still NO water in shawn’s/jon’s my 75gal tank, so there’s no worry about any infestation YET.
Well i am pest free!!!.. lol jk…
How big was that like a quarter or what, i have no sense of size… also, how much rock was infected?
it was about an inch long about size of a quarter, but there were already 3 offspring of the devil near it smaller than a dime. stay pest free. it’s better. qt works!!
I grow aptaisia in my tank. I think they’re purty.
I saw some tank on reef central, the guy had a special compartment for growing aptasia lol
I hear they make a great fuge type filter. like a tank full of xenia.