Aiptasia or hydroids? Please be team aip...

[ScottR]

I just found these on my old LR. Recently added some corals with aiptasia and destroyed them immediately. However, I found these new pop ups. I can’t say they look like aiptasia. Perhaps hydroids. No idea in this early stage.

If anyone says feather dusters.... ;Yawn

 

[ScottR]

Of course I forgot pics.

 

[WV Reefer]

Of course I forgot pics.

They look more like hydroids than aiptasia.

 

[ScottR]

They look more like hydroids than aiptasia.

That’s what I feared. Never thought I’d ever get them. But here I am. At least rock is removable but corals are glued to it

 

[WV Reefer]

That’s what I feared. Never thought I’d ever get them. But here I am. At least rock is removable but corals are glued to it

They are not that big of a deal. I’ve had multiple kinds. Cut off their food supply and pluck them out if they are bothering a neighboring coral.

 

[Lingwendil]

Hydroids for sure. I've never found them to be a problem in all honesty, and never had them become an infestation either.