Anemone Explosion...

Pier Pressure · #1 01-11-2009, 09:27 PM

It has been drawn to my attention that these may be majano (sp.?) anemones. They kind of look like them, though I cannot find a picture of a majano with the dark red tips that these have. Rather than risking selling a pest to somebody, I have decided to call off the whole deal. I have only sold two so far and would be happy to refund people's money. What a lot of time/work/effort for nothing. I am so embarrassed - I thought with the red tips they were rbta's for sure. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Has anyone seen majano anemones with red tips before?

parkinsn · #2 01-12-2009, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Pier Pressure

It has been drawn to my attention that these may be majano (sp.?) anemones. They kind of look like them, though I cannot find a picture of a majano with the dark red tips that these have. Rather than risking selling a pest to somebody, I have decided to call off the whole deal. I have only sold two so far and would be happy to refund people's money. What a lot of time/work/effort for nothing. I am so embarrassed - I thought with the red tips they were rbta's for sure. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Has anyone seen majano anemones with red tips before?

i have mojano's with red tips, they do look close to a RBTA.

simba · #3 01-12-2009, 07:30 PM

pm'ed

Pier Pressure · #4 01-12-2009, 07:45 PM

I am just glad I did not distribute them to everyone and then find out they were pests afterwards. We manually removed all we could yesterday and plan to use a syringe to catch any others that show up. Can I dose vinegar or lemon juice right into my tank or do I have to remove the rocks, does anyone know?

I guess it was kind of funny. Here is my significant other carefully removing them from the rocks, making sure not to hurt them, placing them gently into these little plastic containers we picked up just for the occasion. We even had an rbta care sheet printed up for people to read if they wanted. An hour later - we were flushing them left, right and centre!

Myka · #5 01-12-2009, 09:00 PM

Hehehe, this is a really cute story.

Pier Pressure · #6 01-12-2009, 09:13 PM

Thanks. If we do not post our mistakes we cannot help other people learn, and nobody wants that.
I had a person say that they still wanted some for a fish and live rock set up. I told him the whole story about spreading, stinging, etc. Does anyone know if this would cause issues? He wants them to spread on the rocks to make it look more marine-like, and with no corals he should have no issues. Anyone?

Delphinus · #7 01-12-2009, 09:24 PM

You should post a picture, majano or not, I don't think I've ever seen a "rose" coloured majano before. I'd still love to see them!

I thought you said some of them were loonie sized, if so, seems to me that's an awfully big majano.. The pencil-eraser sized ones though, that seems like a fairly typical majano size (I think).

I have brown majano's taking over my 110g cube, other than a bit unsightly and proliferating faster than I would like, they don't seem to be causing a problem. However I'm hoping to move my CBB in there soon enough to shutdown the tank he's in and I'm hoping he has a zest for majano to the same degree he has a zest for aiptasia..