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  • Dana

What have I grown?

Catherine

aiptasia ))

Joseph

No, this is not aiptasia 100%... I can't say for sure, but it looks like some kind of mayano. If they can move by themselves even over short distances, then it's definitely some kind of small actinia like mayano; if they stay strictly where they grew, then it's some kind of polyps like zoanthids and similar ones, as there are indeed many different types...

Sheila

There are a lot of them in the aquarium. I even feed them shrimp, and they eat it with pleasure; it all looks like an anemone, but in such quantity. And they grow quite quickly. As for whether they move or not, I haven't noticed. But they appear here and there. It's quite scary.

Michelle

So what to do with them? It's a pity to kill them, I fed them like family, how much harm do they really cause?

Martin

I looked more closely and concluded that you have a variety of Anemonia Majano. The small stone anemone, the main danger of these anemones is that they can reproduce en masse, creating large colonies. Majano can harm many, especially hard corals, zoanthids, and cup corals. However, for me, on the contrary, zoanthids have overrun the Majano...

Chris

How can they be removed from the stones?

Christopher

It's difficult to remove, the most reliable way is to simply pull it out with tweezers... there are butterfly fish that eat aiptasia well, but the truth is they also eat other polyps...

Yolanda

Thank you! I will be pulling out.

Charles

Let them live, they haven't overrun the reef, and if not, then that's okay. Also, they don't grow vigorously for everyone and everywhere; I still have the same three as I did before, nothing has changed in six months.

Charles

Do you have Helman, and if so, how does he feel about them?

Vanessa

Helmon does not relate to them in any way, he ignores them...

Lynn

But I have a carpet anemone that has already eaten three Helmanns, one centropyge, one wrasse, and a sea urchin; soon I will start feeding on anemones myself, probably it will be cheaper that way.

Tasha

So it needs to be done mechanically, that is, manually, by pinching with tweezers, it's difficult, tedious, but it has to be done.

Earl

Yes, things are bad, as for me, I would remove the carpet actinia, I love Helman and I really regret the centropig.

Wanda

Maxim, don't worry, these are Mayans, they won't hurt any corals (it's a pity they are brown, there are bright green ones). You definitely don't need to feed them; it's much easier to destroy them than to opt for them. No one besides butterflies eats large Mayans. You can scald them with boiling vinegar from a syringe or with calk water.

Amy

We will try, pulling out is not going very well.

Kimberly

Hey, do you have Aptasia X for sale? What do you think about this medication?

Paul

Here, take a look here.

Carrie

In my opinion, all these products are a complete scam for money. Three methods work: Butterflies in fish aquariums (I especially highlight Chaetodon semilarvatus). Camel shrimp (Rhynchocinetes uritai, at least 4 pieces), Wurdemann's shrimp, Sharon shrimp (Saron marmoratus). Boiling vinegar (heat in the microwave).

Alyssa

Ray, thank you for the response. In the first photo, the beauty is Saron, I wanted to buy her. As for the camels, they don't always eat Aptasia. I have about 5 large Aptasia left, I was thinking of getting rid of the last ones. Peppermint doesn't want to eat them, although I pulled out all the small ones. I really like the butterflies, but I'm afraid they will pick at the corals, and that's unavoidable. Do you have Helmonas rostratus? If you do, please message me the size and price, I'll take it.

Tammy

Helmon definitely doesn't want them. And the shrimp don't react to them either. I pulled out the stones and picked out each one. It's been three months, and it seems there are no more. Thank you all!