Hydroids..any new methods to kill them?

[Sandman12]

I have a pretty serious hydroid infestation and my research doesn’t show any promising results to eradicate them.

Any words of advice or success stories out there???

 

[PedroYoung]

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[Backreefing]

Tuxedo urchin will eat them somewhat. I herd great things about a copper band butterfly. But I haven’t tryed yet .
A opposite reaction I noticed is, when I dosed phosphate. There numbers exploded. From a hundred tank wide to thousands.

 

[Backreefing]

Check out the explosion in numbers from phosphate doseing . The white pic is before the bluish pic is today .

 

[Sandman12]

Check out the explosion in numbers from phosphate doseing . The white pic is before the bluish pic is today .

Interesting, thanks for the reply!

 

[Cole.mormon]

You can get bubble bee snails

 

[Cole.mormon]

Bumble

 

[Cole.mormon]

They will eat ssile inverts

 

[Cole.mormon]

Sessile
For example hydroids, and vermetid snails

 

[Sandman12]

I got copper band butterfly and bumblebee snails. We’ll see if they do anything. After that I’m going to meds in a QT/treatment tank.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Ok can we get pics?

 

[Backreefing]

Yes sandman can you take a before pic and a after pic once your new animals do there work?

 

[Sandman12]

Yes sandman can you take a before pic and a after pic once your new animals do there work?

Will do!

 

[Sandman12]

Pics

 

[Crashnt24]

Hopefully those snails work. Keep us posted on the progress! I have a lot of hydroids like yours that I need to get rid of.

 

[Sandman12]

Hopefully those snails work. Keep us posted on the progress! I have a lot of hydroids like yours that I need to get rid of.

Fingers crossed but I don’t have my hopes up. I imagine I’ll have to set up a QT tank and treat with meds.

 

[stanlalee]

I have several patches from the 10 years I did no maintenance and stopped keeping corals but they have all stayed in small isolated 1-2" patches and never exploded or grow around corals. They've stayed this size for half a decade. I think I could manually remove them but the bumble bee snails sound fun. Ignore the half dead/alive birdsnest (the only coral dinos clung to when I had an outbreak).

 

[Waterbender]

Hi Stanlalee any luck with snails and CP?