id this please .. i think it is a rock anemone???

hi. i went to my parents house the outher day, and my dad has these little guys all over his tank (hundreds of them) i think they are rock anemones?? i looked on line for a while and thats what i came up with ,, whats your opinion?? thanks.

 

I think they are manjano's. get rid of them

usually if you have hundreds of any kind of hitch hiker you should kill them.

 

ya thats what i told him a long time ago, but that did not do much good it looks like

 

majanos

nuisance.

rock anemones don't propagate so ferociously.

 

lol deja vu.

you know this exact scenario took place with me and my dad. He said he liked them and would feed them brine shrimp. fast forward 4 years he has hundreds and they are killing his other corals. fast forward another year and he admits he has a problem with them.

 

sounds the same, he liked them at first but like you said they are smothering his coral and he is not liking them as much now. he gave me a frag a long time ago and he wondered why i killed the few that were hitchhiking on it.

 

thanks for the help. does anyone know a trick to getting rid of them?? i heard joes juice works, i used it for aptasias before, and it worked good.

 

if you have the time and the juice you can go that route. My dad is trying a klien butterfly(not reefsafe). while I haven't seen it eat any yet, suspicously large patches near its swimming area are dissappearing.

 

I use Klein's butterfly on larger customer installations. When the majano's run out, I trap the fish. I've never lost any corals in any of their systems.

 

I didn't have hundreds but probably 50+ button polyp hitchikers on just one piece of LR. When new ones are sprouting now, they look EXACTLY like what is in the pic above....the green things below (sorry I don't have a pic of new ones sprouting):

I was lucky enough to get a 2nd piece of LR with some more of the same (left)...