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So I’m not sure if this crud is cyano or Dino’s, but my question I need help with is what are the hand like feelers that are mixed within the crap. I circled the things in one pic.

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So I’m not sure if this crud is cyano or Dino’s, but my question I need help with is what are the hand like feelers that are mixed within the crap. I circled the things in one pic.

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Can you post a photo in white light please? The two critters within the "crud" are possibly Aptasia or feather worm of some sort and unrelated.
 
What are hydroids? Never heard that term before lol

Hydroids are tiny jellyfish-like creatures. These in particular are in their Medusa stage. Typically they're seen on relatively new tanks, or perhaps they hitchhiked in from something or the other (live rock, frags, etc).

These are typically not of anything to have an emergency situation with, but they do need to be monitored closely such that they do sting surrounding inhabitants.

Hydroids feed off of particulate matter and nutrients so ensuring you have good husbandry and aren't an over feeder, I would recommend keeping up those good habits and keeping an eye on the hydroids.

If you were interested in removing them, then Fenbendazole is a known medication that would assist in that - but I would urge you to consider other approaches before reaching for the pill!

Best of luck to you!
 
Hydroids are tiny jellyfish-like creatures. These in particular are in their Medusa stage. Typically they're seen on relatively new tanks, or perhaps they hitchhiked in from something or the other (live rock, frags, etc).

These are typically not of anything to have an emergency situation with, but they do need to be monitored closely such that they do sting surrounding inhabitants.

Hydroids feed off of particulate matter and nutrients so ensuring you have good husbandry and aren't an over feeder, I would recommend keeping up those good habits and keeping an eye on the hydroids.

If you were interested in removing them, then Fenbendazole is a known medication that would assist in that - but I would urge you to consider other approaches before reaching for the pill!

Best of luck to you!
Yep just did some reading up on them. What a pain in my F***ING butt lol
 
Hydroids are tiny jellyfish-like creatures. These in particular are in their Medusa stage. Typically they're seen on relatively new tanks, or perhaps they hitchhiked in from something or the other (live rock, frags, etc).

These are typically not of anything to have an emergency situation with, but they do need to be monitored closely such that they do sting surrounding inhabitants.

Hydroids feed off of particulate matter and nutrients so ensuring you have good husbandry and aren't an over feeder, I would recommend keeping up those good habits and keeping an eye on the hydroids.

If you were interested in removing them, then Fenbendazole is a known medication that would assist in that - but I would urge you to consider other approaches before reaching for the pill!

Best of luck to you!
Weird though my tank isn’t new by any means. It’s a well established 1.5 old tank
 
Hydroids are tiny jellyfish-like creatures. These in particular are in their Medusa stage. Typically they're seen on relatively new tanks, or perhaps they hitchhiked in from something or the other (live rock, frags, etc).

These are typically not of anything to have an emergency situation with, but they do need to be monitored closely such that they do sting surrounding inhabitants.

Hydroids feed off of particulate matter and nutrients so ensuring you have good husbandry and aren't an over feeder, I would recommend keeping up those good habits and keeping an eye on the hydroids.

If you were interested in removing them, then Fenbendazole is a known medication that would assist in that - but I would urge you to consider other approaches before reaching for the pill!

Best of luck to you!
And yeah none of that fenbendazole for my tank. I have mushrooms and lots of paly and zoa’s that would probably die from that. Thanks for the heads up!
 
Without doing all that I’d try hitting them with thick kalkwasser paste or Aiptasia X

Start slow and get more aggressive if those methods don’t work. I’m betting they will though without having to boil your rock.
 
Yeah I figured lol. Luckily I caught it while there only a few. Looks like I’m boiling rocks tonight to get rid of unwanted pest. Ugh!
I would strongly advise against boiling your rocks, there are many reasons why that's a bad idea. There are easier ways to get rid of pests.
 
Without doing all that I’d try hitting them with thick kalkwasser paste or Aiptasia X

Start slow and get more aggressive if those methods don’t work. I’m betting they will though without having to boil your rock.
Would that work without it being Aiptasia though? I don’t want to risk any of my coral or fish if I can avoid it.
 
Boiling your rocks could send you to the hospital, Not something that should be done period. If you need to be so extreme you could douse them in peroxide (outside the tank) or even bleach or acid is better than boiling! I would use a lil Kalk paste as suggested, or do nothing as they aren’t going to ruin your tank or likely even bother anything
 

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