Can anyone ID this?

[Amps Reef Life]

Trying to find out if this is a pest or what the heck it is. Just got the coral.

I see the acro crab but what are these feather things? Almost polpy like. Don't look like feather dusters.

 

[Danieltanay]

looks like yellow polyps to me

 

[deerhunter06]

what happens when you touch one?

 

[cloak]

Hydroids most likely.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker.shtml

 

[Amps Reef Life]

looks like yellow polyps to me

I was thinking the same.

what happens when you touch one?

When I touch them or rub on them. They close up but the whole polpy looking thing is completely out. They close up like when you touch zoas or polpys.

 

[Amps Reef Life]

Hydroids most likely.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker.shtml

Yup that's it. Hydroids - Colonial.

Looks like I need to remove them.

Thanks!!!!!!

 

[Salty1962]

If you don't remove them, they will spread like wild fire! JME.

 

[Amps Reef Life]

If you don't remove them, they will spread like wild fire! JME.

Thanks!!! Good to know. I thought they looked bad lol.

I ended up removing the coral from the little rock it was on. I tossed the rock. I didn't want to take any chances of introducing that into my tank.

 

[cloak]

If you ever come across more of these a small ball of epoxy can be used to smother them. It's basically like putting a piece of chewed up bubble gum over them. This will harden up and eventually become covered in coralline algae. You'll never even know the Hydroids were there. GL.

 

[Amps Reef Life]

If you ever come across more of these a small ball of epoxy can be used to smother them. It's basically like putting a piece of chewed up bubble gum over them. This will harden up and eventually become covered in coralline algae. You'll never even know the Hydroids were there. GL.

Great to know. Thank you Cloak.