Show off your best aiptasia or majano

[Gmerek2]

Show off your best aiptasia or majano here. If you don't have any large or monumental ones please show off your aiptasia garden!!!!! Or someone please make a video spot feeding them

[Reef Ruler]

Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos?

[Breadman03]

Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos?

I should be! I like to think they are tending to my bryopsis. :headwally:

[toothybugs]

Oh, then you need to be feeding them the blunt end of a pencil once a week! They'll go nuts for you!

[slgcmg]

I have a couple majanos I want to kill.

[Gmerek2]

I have considered a pest tank full of flat worms, bubble algae, Dino's, byopsis. Nudibranches etc. But mainly wanted to see pics for silly factor. Tired of seeing over photo shopped zoa and SPS pics and thought this would be a nice change. I saw a monster aiptasia today that was in my sump. It was so amazing I wasn't even mad. Kind of appreciated it for a minute before I had to scrape it off the glass

[Reef Frog]

Sorry I have no pics. But my LFS used to have a display tank with a large garden with a few outstanding specimens of Aiptasia the size of a silver dollar. No exaggeration. I had no idea that was possible.

I do have a pic of a bubble algae the size of my eyeball. If they had a category for these at the annual county fair I'd enter it and undoubtably be the proud owner of a blue ribbon. I'll see if I can find it.

[Frontier]

I don't have any giant Aiptasia but I once had a world record (according to my reefing buddies) Valonia bubble that was exposed when I tore down my 90 to move to my 210. Earned me my dubious title and lots of kidding and laughs.

[Dkuhlmann]

:D

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0614/1237/products/DSCN1693.jpeg?v=1443613773

http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/data/d/d3/d391d54a_curlyq.jpg

[CowDoc09]

Holy cow, that thing's enormous!

How many times you heard that?! :ape:

[Frontier]

Holy crap!!!!!! Kill it, quick! :uzi:

[Dkuhlmann]

:dance: :D

[Reef Frog]

I don't have any giant Aiptasia but I once had a world record (according to my reefing buddies) Valonia bubble that was exposed when I tore down my 90 to move to my 210. Earned me my dubious title and lots of kidding and laughs.

If I can find my photo I'm going to challenge you to a valonia shootout. Who's got the biggest bubble? I'm talking ping pong ball size as I remember. Its next to a can of Budweiser for perspective. I'm proud of the size of my bubbles and won't go down without a fight !!!

[Frontier]

If I can find my photo I'm going to challenge you to a valonia shootout. Who's got the biggest bubble? I'm talking ping pong ball size as I remember. Its next to a can of Budweiser for perspective. I'm proud of the size of my bubbles and won't go down without a fight !!!

Golfball? You had better do better than that! The one in question had squeezed into a cavity in the rock and expanded for who knows how long. It wasn't even really a perfectly round ball, more like an oblong mass.

I had an old picture from a digital camera somewhere.....hell I'm not sure I could find it if I tried. Maybe I could get my friend to sign an affidavit lol. He ran an aquarium mtc business and said he thought he had seen one bigger. That's why I'm just a Duke in the kingdom of Valonia!

Baron is still open! :beachbum:

[Reef Frog]

Well, you may have me there. Let me look around the tank and see what I can find!

[jbm421]

Wish I would have took pics of a old 75 gallon system I broke down because of bubble algae. That's all the thing was so much of it that when it all started popping on it's own it killed emerald crabs and fish because the water was so contaminated lol.

[chilli_reef]

I had one years ago about four inches tall and three wide come in on a polyp rock

[DiscusHeckel]

Here is my aiptasia scrubber:

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/mbozcan/P1070677_zpsqe2mvyru.jpg

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/mbozcan/P1060814_zps7fa8ohgj.jpg

[HammerLover]

Here is my aiptasia scrubber:

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/mbozcan/P1070677_zpsqe2mvyru.jpg

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/mbozcan/P1060814_zps7fa8ohgj.jpg

Aiptasias are being sold in our LFS too. That's the exact look it has. They've been selling it at 4-5 per $1 :0000. They labeled it as "glass anemone"

What's weird is lots of people buy them :fun5::fun5::fun5:

[hogfanreefer]

I have zero aiptasia in my tank or sump, but my overflow looks a lot like DiscusHeckel's pictures. I have a CBB but there were none in the tank before I got him. Weird, I don't have an explanation for it.

[Gmerek2]

Aiptasia is so contagious you can contract it just by looking at pictures of it. The aiptasia scrubber pics made me LMBO! No food or poop is getting passed that overflow uneaten. How beneficial!

[Sandberg1222]

Mojos I hate them. Been the biggest pain in th r a$@ .

[smedlin]

This entire thread is making Baby Jesus cry... yes... he's crying.

[Gmerek2]

Someone take a nice macro shot of a healthy one please.

[dallen2233]

Aiptasia is so contagious you can contract it just by looking at pictures of it.

Thats almost true.

[chefbill]

I've seen a bubble algae the size and shape off a lightbulb. Huge and impressive.

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[jason2459]

Someone take a nice macro shot of a healthy one please.
How about photomicrograph


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24800148

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161113/943f12d16a2fedce5ccaf04e25811490.jpg

[Breadman03]

Just some iPhone pics, but should be passable.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa479/Breadman03/Gregs%20Reef/c8919e85-9a30-445f-8045-cb19390980b0_zpsinbpkht0.jpg (http://s1199.photobucket.com/user/Breadman03/media/Gregs%20Reef/c8919e85-9a30-445f-8045-cb19390980b0_zpsinbpkht0.jpg.html)

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa479/Breadman03/Gregs%20Reef/db2b655d-4bf7-4b34-80b6-7534e5417c2c_zpslfi7a4wd.jpg (http://s1199.photobucket.com/user/Breadman03/media/Gregs%20Reef/db2b655d-4bf7-4b34-80b6-7534e5417c2c_zpslfi7a4wd.jpg.html)

[mpderksen]

I'll play. I started the hobby with a simple 10g nano that thrived for a few years. I knew nothing of Aiptasia, or QT. One came in on a frag.
The tank looked like this:
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161114/14054acbb82ae5da235adb2d0367f561.jpg
Not much later, it turned into this:
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161114/5ca01ba29b1618d0db8cd8c68bdc10bd.jpg
I got nominated as Pest-TOTM on a nano reef site (in jest, but still, it was a moment of internet fame.). I had more pictures, but the ENTIRE thing was nearly covered

On a positive note, that small hammer on the left is still with me through 2 upgrades.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161114/de0209e46caa74201d521147f515cd62.jpg
Here it is, filling one side of my 75

[johnike]

Yep, thats Aiptasia.

[Moort82]

:D

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0614/1237/products/DSCN1693.jpeg?v=1443613773

http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/data/d/d3/d391d54a_curlyq.jpg

I know its an old post and that you were probably deliberately adding the pic to fool people but that isn't an aiptasia.

[Moort82]

This is a manjano I used to have, I tried to grow it by feeding and for reference the clown is 2.5" when the picture was taken. Wish I had kept it now.

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm38/adamm1769/majano.jpg (http://s292.photobucket.com/user/adamm1769/media/majano.jpg.html)

[Gmerek2]

You should have kept it! Last two pics people showed off clowns hosting aiptasia and mojano. That’s awesome!! Still would love to see what pics people have and we still need to see a sick MACRO!!!

[oldhead]

I'm kinda glad this old thread was dug up. I had a morning chuckle with some of the responses.