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[Jonsey87]

Always hard to take a photo of things so small but if you zoom in, you can see little fuzzy things growing on the rock and some of my zoa's. Can someone please help identify them so I can get rid of them. They seem like they're suffocating my Keds reds.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Hydroids, sometimes harmless though if they're irritating your zoas then they are problematic. @EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal and @ISpeakForTheSeas may have good treatment options

 

[vetteguy53081]

Always hard to take a photo of things so small but if you zoom in, you can see little fuzzy things growing on the rock and some of my zoa's. Can someone please help identify them so I can get rid of them. They seem like they're suffocating my Keds reds.

These are colonial hydroids and will continue to colonize but you can cut them at their base in a container of tank water or direct flow towards them, not at them to prevent food from reaching them and they will soon starve

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Hydroids, sometimes harmless though if they're irritating your zoas then they are problematic. @EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal and @ISpeakForTheSeas may have good treatment options

My two cents on it at the moment:

These may help:

I've heard smothering the hydroids with kalk paste may work, but here are some other threads with suggestions that might be helpful:

Hydroids: a reference to some strategies

Like many of us, I have had problems on and off over the years with Hydroids. The ones that have always given me the most problems are the common ones that almost look like a smaller and darker version of the beginner coral called Yellow Polyps. But the colonial Hydroid is much smaller than...

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Hydroids - How do I eliminate- They have taken over my tank

So I have this stuff that has pretty much taken over my tank and I can't get rid of it. I'm looking for an ID and an eradication plan that is anything short of a total teardown.

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Fenbendazole dip for blue clove polyp/hydroids.

FYI So I had more than few blue clove and what i believe are hydroids pop up on a few frags and start spreading in the frag system. I didn't want to start out treating the whole system so I picked the most populated frags to treat. I mixed 1/4 gram of Fenbendazole with 1 cup of saltwater as a...

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Edit: A relevant link in post 7 of the link above:

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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[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Hydroids, sometimes harmless though if they're irritating your zoas then they are problematic. @EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal and @ISpeakForTheSeas may have good treatment options

Yeah, good luck... My solution when I find these is to remove them at all costs.