Would You Rather...Pest Anemone Infestation!

[AlyciaMarie]

I am an anemone lover through and through, but even I can't deny that some anemones are less than desirable in a reef inhabited by other anemones and corals. Or maybe you're one of those people who can find something to love about these alie... I mean anemones. zipper-mouth-face

Which type of 'pest' anemone would you rather fight an infestation of? And why?

 

[Timfish]

Majano, besides not reproducing as fast as aiptasia so siphoning them out with steel straws can eventually erradicate them there's butterflies that will eat them.

 

[cdemoss01]

I actually hand picked some aptasia out the other day.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Majano all the way

 

[Maritimer]

Some of the majanos are better looking than any of the aiptasia . . .

There are butterflies and angels that will eat both, though berghia will only eat aiptasia . . . that having been said, the Klein's butterfly I hired for the job (not blue-head) also ate almost any other coral I attempted to introduce (got rehomed), and the emperor angel (who has left a few majanos - fortunately the green ones with pink tips that look like mini-BTAs) absolutely adores a snack of zoanthids. (He's also the tank boss - kinda like a beautiful silverback gorilla with blue and yellow stripes.)

The aiptasia-eating butterfly, the one with the orange bars and ocellus, doesn't seem interested in any other cnidarian. In fact, will only eat clams & mussels in the shell.

You pays your money (sometimes lots of it!) and you takes your choice.

~B.

 

[Jasonak]

Majanos, they are actually pretty I think.

 

[vlangel]

I have never had a majano so that is intimidated to me. I have effectively killed aiptasia by making a watery paste from kalwasser and squirting it down its mouth.

 

[Tamberav]

I keep pretty majanos in my sump. They have never traveled to the display.

You can't say that about aiptasia.