Opinions on Raccoon Butterflyfish?

[Jan]

Hello

I have an ongoing problem with majano anemones in my 120 gallon tank (it came in on the live rock...)

I've tried Joe's Juice but it seems to cause new anemones to crop up...don't know why.

Have people had good success with raccoon butterflyfish and majano eradication?

And would this type of fish be dangerous to a crocea clam or to SPS/LPS or soft corals (I have a few mushrooms, ricordia, yellow polyp colony).

Other fish in tank are Sailfin tang, Foxface rabbitfish, clarkii clown, and 2 firefish.

Thanks

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Jan, Majano irradications requires patience and perseverance. A year ago, I bought some live rock from a guy who's tank had blown out. The rock was covered with majanos. I have used both Joe's and boiling water. Very rarely ever see one anywhere in the tank. They move around. As one moves within eyesight, it gets dispatched. I have eradicated over 300 of them on my 300+ pounds of rock in my 180 filled with corals. Raccoons are great fish. Love swimming with them. Have seen too many die in hobbyists tanks. Good fish for a butterfly, but that group are hard to keep.

Long winded way of saying, buy the fish if you are ready to care for it and have the correct set up for it. Don't buy it to cure a different problem.

 

[Jan]

Hmmmm, okay, thanks for your feedback. I was hoping that they'd be hardier than the copperband variety, which I love but I had one I couldn't keep alive.

 

[Scooterman]

Why I try to QT anything wet that goes into the tank. You can try kalk past, plug the hole with a dab.

 

[leebca]

I hesitate to recommend a fish or marine organism to kill off a nuisance organism, with the exception of snails, worms and most benthic creatures.

Ideally, keep the fish if the fish is one you want. You QT it, train it to eat properly prepared foods and if it eats some of the nuisance organisms, that's a bonus. But to acquire a marine organism to eat a nuisance organism means:
1) It will have an 'undiverse' food source; and
2) At some point in time the food will run out (our aquariums don't have the replenishment resource of an ocean ).
. . .then the marine life, untrained to eat other/prepared foods, or hooked on the single nuisance food source. slowly starves.

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Love my Raccoon, best personality of all my fish..He eats right out of my hand!...But I didn't get mine for pest control, and mine is in A FOWLR. I agree with LEEBCA.. don't get a Raccoon, or any fish, just for pest control..a Raccoon will most likely destroy your polyps and clam as well as the anemones, so I don't think you'd be happy with one