Majano Propagation Tank

[Islandoftiki]

With the huge success that my competition pest tank has become, I've received a lot of requests for majano anemones. In particular, the stunning and beautiful green with red tip variety.

 

I don't have enough green/reds in my pest tank to share with everyone who has been interested since it's currently entered into a competition and I don't want to deplete the stock in that tank, I decided to set up my old 7.5 gallon Mr. Aqua cube as a breeding tank for majano anemones.

 

So, here's the stats:

 

Tank: 7.5 gallon Mr. Aqua cube.

Lighting: 26 watt Finnex fixture with 50/50 Daylight/Actinic bulb.

Filtration: Spare empty AC70 for water movement. No filter media used. 15 lbs live rock. Some chaeto floating loose in the tank.

Feeding: A variety of meaty sea foods.

Clean-up crew: A couple hermit crabs. A few snails.

 

 

The tank:

 

 

A generally un-exciting rockscape:

 

 

These are the initial stock of majanos:

 

 

Here are just a few of the special green/red ones:

 

 

And some brown ones of various varieties:

 

 

I'm feeding them pretty heavily in hopes of bringing the nitrates up a bit and encouraging them to split and grow. This is turning into a fun project, and I hope I can supply some of these wonderful anemones to folks who are creating their own pests tanks.

[ZachS]

I've seen a few of the green with red tips at tpa maybe ask garrett if he would give them to you?

[Islandoftiki]

Here's a time-lapse of the majanos eating frozen mysis shrimp. You'll also see some other interesting critters, digitate hydroids, lots of pods and a couple of hermit crabs.

 

[CuttleFishandCoral]

I like it. Very creative!

[Derbird]

Those are the luckiest mojano's on the earth

[Islandoftiki]

And those wacky digitate hydroids! Did you see them

Trying to weasel in on the majano's meal? Actually, those things are kinda interesting. They almost seem sentient.