I want your majanos

[reedman]

Yes you read the title correctly. If you have majanos that you want out of your tank and you can remove them (either take a rock out and I will give it back clean or as "frags") I will take them. My butterfly seems to love them, but I am all out.

Thanks,
-Reed

 

[scytale]

As Johnny C. said "If the glove don't fit...."

Do majanos "clump" together?
And do they sometimes have phosphorescent tips?

(The pictures I see of majanos usually look like aptasia--w/thin tentacles)

The little guys I have in my tank have fat, stubby tentacles and not much of an oral disc....(but they're still pretty small so maybe I just can't see it.)

I'll try to get a pict of them tonight--If they are majanos--then you can have em! (before they start to spread!!)
I've got 3 clumps of them on 1 small dinner-roll sized rock (right on top--won't even need to fuss with my rockwork...)

 

[reedman]

If you post a pic I'm sure we can id them for you.

Thanks!

 

[jsmkmavity]

the butterfly should eat aiptaisia also so your not so limited

 

[reedman]

Yeah, I would take airptasia too...

 

[scytale]

If you post a pic I'm sure we can id them for you.

Thanks!

Here's some pics.

(I hope that they're not majones--they do seem to growing directly from the tips of the coral skeleton around them--well at least from the tips not covered in pink coraline...)

(For size reference, the black square in the backgound of the first pic is my 4' mag-float..)

 

[reedman]

I'm not thinking those are majanos....at least not what I am used to seeing. They look more like coral polyps to me.

 

[scytale]

I guess that's good for me , but bad for your butterfly! :|

I'd offer up my aiptasia as food (lord knows I have few of those!)

But they're all on a single +20# piece of rock--the same rock that houses a HUGE LTA (and my GSM clowns too....)

I've got a brother-in-law with a whole tank full of nuisance anenomes (probably majonos)...
but he's down in Oregon--so not a very viable food source...:doubt:

 

[jnarowe]

well, I have a mojano on a rock in my QT you can have! and about 500+ aiptasia in my display...so far the peppermint shrimp are not taking a liking to them. I am a bit far for you but if you come to Kitsap to go to an LFS or two, you can always stop by and we can harvest some!

 

[thekingfish]

Here's some pics.

(I hope that they're not majones--they do seem to growing directly from the tips of the coral skeleton around them--well at least from the tips not covered in pink coraline...)

(For size reference, the black square in the backgound of the first pic is my 4' mag-float..)

Is that maybe a galaxea coral?

 

[diablo]

hmmm hydroids??

Here's some pics.

(I hope that they're not majones--they do seem to growing directly from the tips of the coral skeleton around them--well at least from the tips not covered in pink coraline...)

(For size reference, the black square in the backgound of the first pic is my 4' mag-float..)

 

[scytale]

Is that maybe a galaxea coral?

If galaxea build skeletons, then I think thekingfish hit it on the head!

(I bought the whole reef used, after many of the corals had crashed, so sometimes I feel like an archelogist/CSI when looking through the tank....)

But based on the WTT/FS posts i saw for galaxia--it looks like the last remamnents of a mother colony--what was once probably a great base-ball-sized globe (but now just the 3 polyps left...)

Hopefully I can return it to it's former glory!
(anybody have any good advice/threads on galaxia/galaxea....)

 

[reedman]

Still looking for majanos locally.....

 

[Elmo18]

Is that maybe a galaxea coral?

Yes it is.

There are some dead portions, that seem to have been recovered in coralline.

Best,
Ilham

 

[reedman]

still looking

 

[uwscotch]

Hey Reed

I know a couple with an entire tank covered in them but they live in Anacortes. Probably would have to go up there and get the rocks.

best

 

[reedman]

doh! how is it that all of the majanos live far away

 

[jnarowe]

all the skilled labor is out-of-town, of course! :lol:

 

[diablo]

you still on the hunt? I have some that I do not want to introduce into my new 180. There are some corals that would have to go to. I will try to get a pic posted for you. mostly softies and about 15-25 lbs of rock. we can work something out I do not want to deal with these little buggers in my new system.

 

[reedman]

I do still want majanos, but i have no interest in corals at this point. I simply don't have the equipment to keep them alive. I appreciate the thought, but if you are offering to sell LR with majanos/corals on it to me I would have to decline, but thanks.