Show off your best aiptasia or majano

Gmerek2 · 02/03/2016, 07:30 AM

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 · 02/03/2016, 09:55 AM

Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos?

Breadman03 · 02/03/2016, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Reef Ruler

Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos?

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

toothybugs · 02/03/2016, 10:07 AM

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

slgcmg · 02/03/2016, 09:16 PM

I have a couple majanos I want to kill.

Gmerek2 · 02/03/2016, 09:48 PM

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 · 02/03/2016, 10:20 PM

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 · 02/04/2016, 04:58 AM

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 · 02/04/2016, 06:31 AM

CowDoc09 · 02/04/2016, 06:46 AM

Holy cow, that thing's enormous!

How many times you heard that?!

Frontier · 02/04/2016, 06:49 AM

Holy crap!!!!!! Kill it, quick!

Dkuhlmann · 02/04/2016, 08:32 AM

Reef Frog · 02/04/2016, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 02/04/2016, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Reef Frog

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!

Reef Frog · 02/04/2016, 01:37 PM

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

jbm421 · 02/04/2016, 02:09 PM

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 · 02/04/2016, 03:39 PM

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

DiscusHeckel · 02/04/2016, 06:34 PM

Here is my aiptasia scrubber:

HammerLover · 02/04/2016, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DiscusHeckel

Here is my aiptasia scrubber:

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

hogfanreefer · 02/04/2016, 10:03 PM

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 · 02/04/2016, 11:47 PM

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 · 02/05/2016, 02:43 AM

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

smedlin · 02/05/2016, 10:26 AM

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

Gmerek2 · 11/12/2016, 11:40 AM

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

dallen2233 · 11/12/2016, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Gmerek2

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

Thats almost true.

02/03/2016, 07:30 AM	#1
Gmerek2 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 122	Show off your best aiptasia or majano 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

02/03/2016, 09:55 AM	#2
Reef Ruler Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Westchester, NY Posts: 413	Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos? __________________ --Brian--

02/03/2016, 09:16 PM	#5
slgcmg Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 521	I have a couple majanos I want to kill. __________________ 180g reef 40g sump 250# LR 10 54w T5. 2 Nasos, sailfin, regal tang, coral beauty, powder blue, yellow tang, melanarus wrasse, 2 chromis, foxface, clownfish, LPS, various shrimps

02/04/2016, 04:58 AM	#8
Frontier Duke of Valonia Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Ft. Liquordale Posts: 312	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. __________________ Current Project: Small, low nutrient, SPS reef with a few select LPS corals and a couple of fish! :) Current Tank Info: Red Sea Reefer 170

02/04/2016, 06:31 AM	#9
Dkuhlmann Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: NW Iowa Posts: 8,823	__________________ Previous tanks: 200 gal fowlr 9" Emperor Angel and many different butterfly fish 4" maroon clown and several other fish, 50 gal sump, 40 gal mixed reef/fish mostly softies and LPS. Current Tank Info: 40b 750 gph 45 lbs lr, 2"-3" sand, 165w full spectrum dimable LED, 20 gal sump/refugium 30 lbs lr, Bak Pak 2 skimmer, 4" sock temp 79-80, sg 1.026, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 <10, ph 8.2, calc 400, mag 1300

02/03/2016, 10:07 AM	#4
toothybugs In Memoriam Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: The smallest county in Illinois Posts: 1,986	Oh, then you need to be feeding them the blunt end of a pencil once a week! They'll go nuts for you!

02/03/2016, 09:48 PM	#6
Gmerek2 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 122	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

02/03/2016, 10:20 PM	#7
Reef Frog Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Maryland Posts: 3,121	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.

02/04/2016, 06:46 AM	#10
CowDoc09 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 65	Holy cow, that thing's enormous! How many times you heard that?!

02/04/2016, 06:49 AM	#11
Frontier Duke of Valonia Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Ft. Liquordale Posts: 312	Holy crap!!!!!! Kill it, quick! __________________ Current Project: Small, low nutrient, SPS reef with a few select LPS corals and a couple of fish! :) Current Tank Info: Red Sea Reefer 170

02/04/2016, 08:32 AM	#12
Dkuhlmann Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: NW Iowa Posts: 8,823	__________________ Previous tanks: 200 gal fowlr 9" Emperor Angel and many different butterfly fish 4" maroon clown and several other fish, 50 gal sump, 40 gal mixed reef/fish mostly softies and LPS. Current Tank Info: 40b 750 gph 45 lbs lr, 2"-3" sand, 165w full spectrum dimable LED, 20 gal sump/refugium 30 lbs lr, Bak Pak 2 skimmer, 4" sock temp 79-80, sg 1.026, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 <10, ph 8.2, calc 400, mag 1300

02/04/2016, 01:37 PM	#15
Reef Frog Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Maryland Posts: 3,121	Well, you may have me there. Let me look around the tank and see what I can find!

02/04/2016, 02:09 PM	#16
jbm421 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 168	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.

02/04/2016, 03:39 PM	#17
chilli_reef Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Chillicothe Ohio Posts: 468	I had one years ago about four inches tall and three wide come in on a polyp rock __________________ "But did you die !" Current Tank Info: 75g nondrilled reef.

02/04/2016, 06:34 PM	#18
DiscusHeckel Acropora Gardener Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 2,780	Here is my aiptasia scrubber: __________________ Featured Tank OCT 2016 \| "Reef Hobbyist Magazine" TOTM OCT 2016 \| "Ultimate Reef", UK FB \| "/troutsReefTank/" 65G SPS Reef- ATI 8 X 39W PM; TM [Bacto-Balance A-; Reef Actif; Nitribiotic; Iodine]

02/04/2016, 10:03 PM	#20
hogfanreefer Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 2,117	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. __________________ DSA 155,Custom Trigger 42" sump/refugium, MP40 X2, MP 10 X 2, AI Hydra 52 X3, Apex controller, Tunze ATO Current Tank Info: DSA 155 gallon, mixed reef, SPS and wrasse dominant

02/04/2016, 11:47 PM	#21
Gmerek2 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 122	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!

02/05/2016, 10:26 AM	#23
smedlin Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: South of Houston, Texas Posts: 339	This entire thread is making Baby Jesus cry... yes... he's crying. __________________ 150G - 14 years old. In process of modernizing it. Read about my sad attempt here http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2490690

11/12/2016, 11:40 AM	#24
Gmerek2 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 122	Someone take a nice macro shot of a healthy one please.