ID help pls

[Segalplayer]

Saw this on the back wall and sucked it out with a pipette. Can someone please tel me what it is? I dip everything in coral rx and multiple times so I’m not sure what it is.

 

[kashman100]

Digitate hydroid

 

[Segalplayer]

Digitate hydroid

Are they bad? If so how should I get rid of it?
Lol I just looked them up and no wonder I touched a the Rock my scoly is on and my hand was stinging for like 30 min yikes.

Thanks btw!

 

[Segalplayer]

Probably gotten about three out with a pipette

 

[kashman100]

They will sting corals. Manual removal is only way I know. I think they come out more in the dark. I have had them for a while and they seem to have dwindled in numbers on there own

 

[Segalplayer]

They will sting corals. Manual removal is only way I know. I think they come out more in the dark. I have had them for a while and they seem to have dwindled in numbers on there own

Oh okay, I have been sucking them out, I saw one on my scoly mouth and tried to get him out but he went in the middle (not into the mouth but the flap above it. Thanks kashman100

 

[Segalplayer]

Saw one on the scoly that had gotten away, I shoulda taken a picture but

it was in the center of the flap tissue and where the pest traveled was sunken in. But was able to get it out with a pipette. Haven’t seen anymore yet, I have been in finals week studying so been next to the tank a lot At all times of the day, which worked out