Aliens taken over

[Goaway]

Sadly, dino's are pretty toxic.

 

[Waterbender]

Sadly, dino's are pretty toxic.

What makes it even worse is that I will be out of town for a couple of weeks and God knows what surprise I will find when I’m back

 

[Goaway]

That's when disaster always strikes. I would just manually remove what ever driods you can. I don't know how much they can spread in a week? Dino's can cover a tank in a night.

 

[Waterbender]

Dinos are pretty bad. But these buggers are even worse. My smooth skin acros are full of white marks. I initially thought these were AEFW bite marks but I dipped and inspected the corals and came to the conclusion that these are the stinging tentacles of the hydroids

 

[Goaway]

Time to get a scalpel and scrape them off of their base.

 

[Waterbender]

Time to get a scalpel and scrape them off of their base.

Do you think that kills the hydroids or they just land somewhere else?

 

[Goaway]

I would remove them out of water and scrape.

 

[Waterbender]

I would remove them out of water and scrape.

That’s a real pain. I brushed some plugs yesterday while inspecting only to find that I missed many of them. They can be very tiny and a lot of times very close to the coral base. But most of them are on the glass. Maybe I can siphon them out while scraping. Not sure if there is any other alternative, I’ve been doing some reading on reef2reef. There was a thread on using fenbendazole with mix Results.

 

[Goaway]

If you can use it and not injure the corals, go for it.

 

[Waterbender]

If you can use it and not injure the corals, go for it.

What I have in mind right now is the “no action” and “lazy” route. First, because I have only 2 days before I travel. Second, I read somewhere that these buggers feed off all sorts of phytoplankton and animals. Now since this is a fishless QT, I want to try to starve them.

 

[Goaway]

Your corals should be fine for awhile with no feedings going on. Hopefully these starve out.