Digitate hydroids

[Hunterhype13]

I have got digitate hydroids I first noticed a month or 2 back and would try to sparkle over them but out of no where glove had a bloom of them all over the place I’ve heard that by raising the water temp past 92 you can kill them with heat I’ve only recently Kept my tank around 82 degrees due to not having a thermometer to tell the temp barley had the heater on and my tank stayed over 90 degrees for over a year but I finally figured out and lowered the heater all the way down and it keeps at 82 degrees but I wanted to know if it would be safe to slowly raise the temp back up past 90 to try and kill these dang hydroids my corals are doing fabulous I see some hydroids touching my mushrooms but they don’t seem to bother them all I have are softies gap mushrooms a Kenya tree a green leather tree and some pulsing Xenia along with two clowns and a yellow tang with some inverts urchin snails and hermits would i be safe to slowly bring the heat up to kill these hydroids?

 

[Hunterhype13]

Ok thanks everyone lots of help

 

[Crabs McJones]

Your threads only been live for an hour and it's a monday morning. People are getting to work or still sleeping in if they're off work.
If you have corals in the tank I would not raise the temp up that high. You can try one of two things, you can feed less so the hydroids don't consume as much and reproduce, otherwise there is this thread that a member has used fendendazole to get rid of them.

Here it is! Fenbendazole use against hydroids

Hi all! Well after getting a lot of questions about the use of fenbendazol I figured I would write this up. This is for informational purposes and I will not be held liable for improper use. Fenbendazol must be used exactly as I instruct or run the risk of a tank crash. Now lets get to it! So...

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[BonaireZ]

I have got digitate hydroids I first noticed a month or 2 back and would try to sparkle over

I have been covering my digitate hydroids with reef epoxy (JB Weld Water Weld) in hopes that I will be able to incapacitate and starve them. Eventually when do some more aquascaping with new corals, I'll attach them to those areas. Meanwhile, I have cut back on reefroids, and have been generally lowering the nutrient load. So what happens between a torchy and a digitate hydroid? Torchy wins and eats the hydroid. I attached a picture but I couldn't get it well focused.