BLOODY MAJANOS

[Cujo#31]

So I have recently erradicated all the pain in the arse aptasia. Nuked the ones I could get to, then, desperate times call for desperate measures, I moved all my fish over to another tank and basicly starved my peppermints into cleaning out the rest of the aptasia.
Now I see a couple bloody majanos. I have heard you can just tweeze them off rocks u cant remove, and kalk paste, but a couple are too close to coral to risk, and rocks too big and nasty to pull out so I can scrape em off.
Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated.

[Aquattro]

Muriatic acid. Done.

[Cujo#31]

Sounds good. Please speak to me like I draw in crayon now. What the heck is muriatic acid? And does a trip to LFS answer the supply question?
Thanks Brad

[SteveCGY]

[quote=Cujo#31;889850]Sounds good. Please speak to me like I draw in crayon now. What the heck is muriatic acid? And does a trip to LFS answer the supply question?

It's hydrochloric acid and can be found in hard ware stores used as a cleaning item.

http://www.rona.ca/en/muriatic-acid

[Aquattro]

As Steve said, I get it at Canadian Tire. Open it outside, suck some into a syringe and inject into thing wanted dead. Works for aptaisia too. If you have a smaller tank, only do a half dozen at a time so you don't affect pH. Don't get it on your skin or in your eyes. Don't ever add water to acid. Opening in the house will cause it to react with humidity and give off gas. Don't open inside

[zephyr50]

Aiptaisa-X gets them too, but you have to really pour it on; being careful it doesn't leak to any other corals. Sometimes you "kill" the heads and then can pick off the stem with a tweezers. They are very resilient, as you know. Pests!

[Cujo#31]

Thanks guys....im all over that. U rock!!!

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

As Steve said, I get it at Canadian Tire. Open it outside, suck some into a syringe and inject into thing wanted dead. Works for aptaisia too. If you have a smaller tank, only do a half dozen at a time so you don't affect pH. Don't get it on your skin or in your eyes. Don't ever add water to acid. Opening in the house will cause it to react with humidity and give off gas. Don't open inside

I thought this would drastically affect PH levels? How much are you guys using per head for mojanoes?

[GoFish]

I actually bought a bottle of it yesterday from home hardware for $7 to clean and prep aluminum for paint, very nasty smell.
The label says you can add 200ml to 10,000 litres of water to affect PH by a certain number (can't remember) though I've read over the last year several experienced reefers don't even test or bother with PH anyway

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Snappy

I thought this would drastically affect PH levels? How much are you guys using per head for mojanoes?

When I first read about this, I worked out the math re: how much I could add to my tank before it affected pH, and the value was quite high. I don't recall exactly what it was, as that was 20 years ago, but I used it to kill a lot of aptaisia in my 150g (per session) without affecting pH (using a real time monitor).
I use probably 0.5ml or so per head.