hydroids???

jiffy · Feb 19, 2011

????

Alattner · Feb 19, 2011

i have no idea if those are or not but those things are pretty neat looking man

skinz78 · Feb 19, 2011

From what I have seen in the past I would say yes they are hydroids. I am pretty sure there are lots of variations of them out there.

dougers31 · Feb 19, 2011

Looks like hydroids to me, either way I'd try and get rid of'em cause it looks like your zoas hate them.

jiffy · Feb 19, 2011

how do you get rid of them? scrape them off?

MimicOcto8 · Feb 19, 2011

are hydroids bad? in my nano i see a good amount of them and they dont seem to bother anything...unless they arent hydroids

foxhuntr · Feb 19, 2011

those are called brown hydroids......bet rid of them as soon as you can...they are very evaisive......

skinz78 · Feb 19, 2011

I would try and Kalk paste them to rid them.

jiffy · Feb 19, 2011

dont have any kalk =/ so i just off that lil piece of rock they were sitting on.. =]

kingfisherfleshy · Feb 19, 2011

Does anything eat them?

foxhuntr · Feb 19, 2011

no .....nothing woll eat them and they are very hard to get rid of...they have a root base that is inside the rock....if you can cut the piece off that they are on...... as soon as you see them get rid of them....they spread very fast and drift on the current till they find a new place to grow...then you have 2 colony's of them.....i think complete darkness will kill them after awhile....good luck

dougers31 · Feb 19, 2011

Peppermint shrimp do any damage?

kingfisherfleshy · Feb 20, 2011

Man, that sucks...dip your corals people...heres hoping that has kept me protected.

Dave3112 · Feb 20, 2011

killing the light won't do a thing.I regularly run total darkenss for 3 days at a time in my tank and they are still there. I have them in my tank and they have been around for a while but they are starting to spread now so I will try some Kalk paste and see what happens. I don't think dipping will do anything to them either. From what I know they are rooted deep in the rocks.

pitbullguy · Feb 20, 2011

I have a blue sponge that eats it. It grows around and consumes it. I will try to find a picture I took a while back and post it. Kalk also works but is a little messy.