Raccoon Butterfly in sps tank for mejano control (1 Viewer)

[sdebol]

Nice avatar, Derek!

 

[sameyer]

I have had plague proportions of majanos and the only effective way to eliminate them in large numbers among the live rock was to dig them out with a foreceps. Recently, I have killed some using Joe's juice - not injecting them but feeding them. They were on the back glass so I could watch the progressive demise. After I squirted them, they close immediately and within a few hours turned white-gray. Over the next few days they turned dark and looked like they were getting necrotic. Within a week, they were gone. Not sure if the hermits ate them or perhaps they fell off the glass. The stuff (Joe's juice) appeared to work based on about 6 majanos treated, although I could not ultimately verify that the small nubs didn't fall off and regenerate somewhere else.

 

[NHGJesusFreak]

what is "Joe's juice"? I've got a few of these punks in my tank, and I would like to destroy them.

 

[sameyer]

Here is the link at Marine Depot. Quite a few positive comments.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_searchItem.aspx?IdCategory=&SearchText=joe's%20juice&parsed=1

 

[NHGJesusFreak]

thanks

 

[wolmutt]

looks like I picked the wrong time to quit heroine. No syringes...

try out the needle exchange. its free you just need some dirty needles. prob find some in the parking lot outside of the place. I could ask some of my clients :biggrin:

 

[hypertech]

Kelly was good enough to hook me up quite a while ago. I have no idea where they came from or if he has any more. He got me one nice long thin one that is really good at getting at the ones hiding in rocks.

I haven't had a need to use it anytime lately - my peppy has taken care of my aiptasia.

 

[kylesmoney]

would you be able to buy them from a vet or would they look at you like your insane for asking?

 

[mattb]

Joe's Juice doesn't work... its more like a temporary fix....

 

[sameyer]

I am going to capture some majanos and do some more controlled testing. Like I said, it looks like it killed the 6 that I treated but they may have fallen off and relocated. I dosed the sh** out of them.

Do you think the same one's come back after treatment or are they new ones?

In the past, I have scoured the rock and cut out every majano I could find. In the end, they come back. I am using Joe's Juice in maintenance mode to keep the population in check.

 

[wildflower]

Looking for an update to this thread:

Has anyone found a sure fire way to get rid of these nasty majano?

Or, has anyone gotten a fish that will eat them?

 

[mattb]

I took out all my live rock, bought new live rock, and cooked the old stuff in muriatic acid, then bleach. I have a couple that made it, so I'm trying to manually destroy them....

 

[Energy]

I am trying a majestic angel right now and am ordering some atlantic green filefish also. The following fish have had a reputation to eat majanos.
1. Bi-color angelfish
2.racoon butterfly fish
3.Pearly scale butterfly fish
4.atlantic green filefish
5.thread fin butterfly fish
6.double saddled butterfly fish
7.camelback shrimp
8. Pyramid butterfly fish

 

[mattb]

Since Red Sea Regal angels haven't been available for some time, Im thinking about a Majestic as well. My only real concern is with clams... Are you running with one now? I may have to hassle you in a couple of weeks I was thinking Pearl Scale butterfly too....

 

[Goldpony75]

There is a guy I know with a 450 gallon tank that had Majanos completely covering his live rock and he got a pair of copperbands and they have completely devoured them except where his pair of GSM's have a clutch of eggs at the moment.

 

[Energy]

I am hoping to find a reef safea majano eater and pass him around the club. I was thinking the gren filefish may a good one since they aren't pretty and when they finish there job people would easily pass them along.
The majestic is in the refugium where i have some narly rocks covered in the majano's. I am waiting to see if he starts eating them. I also have some zoanthids and other corals in there to see if he picks at them as well.
Time will tell.

 

[Energy]

I am also interested in a pearlyscale just becasue they are pretty cool looking and to get one that is reef safe and eats majano's would be awesome.

 

[mattb]

my copperband didn't touch them, though he ate at the aptasia I had. I've talked to a couple of Germans that used Kleins Butterfly successfully too. Just worried about me clams...

 

[rihanssu]

stan I looked into that fish and i'm told they are real common and they are cheap too i'll have 2 this weekend

 

[Energy]

Great, I'll take both of them. Are you sure they are the atlantic green filefish and not the tassled filefish? The tassled do not eat the majanos but look similar.