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Mark Peterson
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Posted: October 19 2005 at 1:07am |
Those good pics are of the type of anemone that I have found quite easy to remove manually. I pinch them between my fingers, being certain to have a good hold on them with my fingernails, and pull them right off the rock. It's easy. No messing with Kalkwasser paste or the stress of introducing a new fish. The trick is to not be afraid of them and to get a firm hold on them.
BTW Kleins prefer small pesky anemones to anything else. But when the anemones are gone they have been known to pick at LPS. Removing a Kleins is no more difficult than any other fish by skilled netting or a good trap.
Regarding telephone communications with a company representative, you might be surprised at how little some of those people really know and how often they are just making things up to look smart. I know, because I've done it myself. Since my foray into the world of the LFS I have come to realize how little I really know.
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Posted: October 19 2005 at 1:18am |
My only problem removing these is that I can't access them and I am
absolutely dreading pulling out the live rock to get to them. That is
where the kleins would become my best friend. But I would hate to have
to remove it later (that's not something you do to friends ).
If it would be able to manage ok in an aggressive tank ( triggers,
eels, puffers ), then I could move it to another one of my tanks.
It is still a possibility.
One thing that I have noticed is that once these are wounded (injected)
then the peppermint shrimp start to work on them. I hope the calcium
isn't bad for my peps.
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Posted: October 20 2005 at 1:15am |
Their may be hope for majano removal after all!!
I believe it is called spurilla.
Now I just need to find some.
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Posted: October 20 2005 at 3:00am |
I usually don't bother with something I can't get to.
How did they get those two to pose for that portrait?
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 9:20pm |
OK,
Picked up a Kleins butterfly today to experiment with the majano
outbreak. He is a fairly large fish and has not yet touched any majano
in my tank yet (after about 6 hours). He has nipped at my kenya tree,
eaten a ton of my tiny feather dusters, and torn a huge polyp from my
leather . If I can catch him he is going into the sump!!!
Help Me Mark!!!!!! Is there a specific process to this??
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 9:49pm |
I'm sorry, each fish is different as well as the aquarium it goes into. I have the fish trap. Call me.
I would also try turning on the lights in the middle of the night and if the fish is anywhere a net can reach the lights blind it for a few seconds, hopefully just long enough to catch it.
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 11:19pm |
No, problem Mark. It's not your fault that this fish likes the same things we do.
So, I caught him (about an hour of bribing him into a net) and I'm sure he is now eating everything in my sump.
I did learn that my tangs are either dumb or fearless because they
spent most of their time in my net trap eating my bait.
I now have him up for trade. If I can't trade him I will have to engineer a tiny shock colar and start training him. He really is a good looking fish.
So I would say that this was a successful experiment. Because this guy
will eat anything (I even saw him nip at a mushroom) I'm sure he would
eat the majano. But definitly not reef safe! Meanwhile, I'm sticking to
calcium injections and ,as per Mark's instructions, manual removal. I
have found that after about an hour of being full of calcium, the
majano come off fairly easy.
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