[RoneyBird]

Hey guys, I work at a family owned furniture store, and we have a awesome reef tank 500 gallons. Unfortunatly we have gotten a Majano infestation. The owner had a guy come in about twice a month to help him sadly he was very sick and past away. We are trying to save this amazing tank, live coral and fish. What can we do? Joes juice didn't help just made the move to new spots. the fish eat the pepermint shrimp. anyone that can help or has an idea would be great. thank you!

[NOSAJ214]

Do your best to get a syringe,(hypodermic needle)and then inject them with clear or distilled vinegar.you might not be able to get all of them but u can put a good dent in them in about half hour worth of work. i know how u feel

[jimw369]

Do you have any knowledge about saltwater?

Would it be possible to remove the live rock most of the pests are on and then kill the rest? Did you say 500gal? Oh to only have your problems...sigh

Sounds to me like you are gonna be getting your arms wet.

WOW! just went back and looked at the pics! You would be squirting joes or vinegar for a very long time.

How much time effort and money you want to put into this? That might have a bearing on how you want to tackle this. Looks to me like there is enough good stuff in that tank to make a tremendous looking reef someday but its gonna take a lot of effort.

[adam jenkins]

Now thats an infestation!It would take alot of work but It could look awesome.I've only had like 4 mojanos and I used Blue Life Aiptasia control.Killed them quick.Thats my personal experience with them.

[michelle's ocean fantasy]

Would "Joe's Juice" work better than or similar to the vingar?

[Phayes]

Looks like its a bit too late to start trying to use joes juice of aiptasia-x. I'd take out that piece of LR if you can and nuke it... take whatever pieces of coral you still have on it off and put them on another piece of LR for the time being... just nuke the rock though. That large of an infestation is well beyond trying to use chemical means to destroy it.

[dinor2]

Hey, any truth to this guy saying the racoon butterfly will eat them? AnemoniaFAQs

Umm, on second thought, not a good idea, sorry! Scratch the butterfly!

[RoneyBird]

thank you, After doing research I was hoping that taking out the coral wasn't the only way. There are just too many of them. Keep the ideas coming though. I believe in miracles.

[pogodzib]

I've had a 90%+ kill rate when injecting Majano's with vinegar. It may take several injection periods to get them all since you have so many, but it will work if your patient. When you inject them, often they will come loose or you can use the needle to pick them off the rock. If possible, remove them from the tank at that time so you know they are gone for good.

[RoneyBird]

If we take piece out to inject and remove the majano, how long can we keep the piece of coral out of the water?

[pogodzib]

I always inject them in the tank. You can inject a couple ounces of vinegar per 100 day per day without causing any negative reactions and you can inject plenty of majanos per ouch of vinegar. If you want to take the rock out of the tank, soft corals are usually fine out of the water for several minutes, SPS and LPS for a couple minutes max, and zoos can go much longer, but if too much vinegar gets directly on the coral, you might run into problems, which is another reason why you inject them in the tank (or at least a bucket full of salt water) to keep the vinegar from sitting on the outside tissue of a coral.

[RoneyBird]

The Way the tank is set up it would be very difficult to inject in the tank. But we will do what ever it takes to fix this. We all love it, enjoy it so much!

[Heliux]

Personally i would just find a day when you can spend alot of time on your tank, remove the LR (after taking as many corals off as possible) and do it fairly fast. a 500g tank would be hard to just do it directly, and if u have quick enough hands you can probably knock out alot before anything on the rock really dies(that you want). Thats just my personal suggestion..

Heliux

[RoneyBird]

I think our plan of attack will be removing the pieces that have too many. Removing the Majanos as best as we can from the remaing pieces. We will let you know how it goes...

[carmanimports]

I also had a Majano problem. The ones on your glass should be easy enough. Use a old credit card or something similar to scrap them of the glass, making sure to get evey last bit. When I'm scraping I keep a siphon tube pinched off & ready to go just in case any of those buggers break up. If they do I just suck the pieces up and out of the tank.

Majority of mine were on rocks & I tried Kalk paste that killed everything I put it on. Then a week or so latter I would see a a small green speck waving at me...DARN!!!!. I injected with diluted iodine & even kalk with no luck. Then just surfing threads someone mentioned putting a pice of LR or a shell over the Majano. Then when it moves on top on the LR/shell(sometimes overnight) you pull it out and scrap the B#!%$D off and clean off the area with freash water. I have removed 10 that way & now have two left, just waiting for them to get a little bigger.

Hope that helps.

[DEWAYNE]

I honestly think the way I would do it is to pull every piece out, clean substarte, and then repeat and rinse, man its a big job, but will be well worth it. I only say this, because you have more then any tank I have ever seen. good luck