hydroids? should I worry or not?

[Reef Wizard]

Hello all,

I think I have some sort of hydroid in my tank which the only thing that has been introduced in the last month has been Clean Chaeto from AlgaeBarn...

Should I worry about these?

They are mostly on the glass and backwall that I can see and there is ALOT lol.

Also my tank is like completely covered in green film algae Snails and more CUC on the way

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

From what I know, they can only sting, which really only becomes a problem with corals.

I believe as the tank matures, they will slowly go away, but you can scrape them off the glass, with a net around so they go directly into the net.

Don't worry about it, I have a few on my glass and have seen no issues so far.

 

[Reef Wizard]

From what I know, they can only sting, which really only becomes a problem with corals.

I believe as the tank matures, they will slowly go away, but you can scrape them off the glass, with a net around so they go directly into the net.

Don't worry about it, I have a few on my glass and have seen no issues so far.

Yeah I was just gonna scrape them off. I don't have any coral in the tank yet I have two frags in QT tank at the moment

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Yeah I was just gonna scrape them off. I don't have any coral in the tank yet I have two frags in QT tank at the moment

You should be fine.

I have 6 corals in my 15g with a decent amount on the glass, and like I said I have seen no issues.

I think it only becomes a issue with bigger species.

 

[BOYERZ]

Those are the cool ones, it's the colonial hydroids you worry about.

 

[Reef Wizard]

Those are the cool ones, it's the colonial hydroids you worry about.

Yeah they are pretty neat looking. So far my copperband doesn't seem to care to eat them. He's a worm guy anyway lol