Please ID this. Suffocating my Zoas.

[Tanggy]

Please help ID this. I've noticed it for a while now and it seems to be growing and suffocating my Zoas. It started as a little patch on the front of the rock and now it covers most of the rock and surrounds the Zoa colonies. What it is and how do I get rid of it? Thanks.

 

[j.falk]

The bubble tip anemone?

 

[WV Reefer]

Please help ID this. I've noticed it for a while now and it seems to be growing and suffocating my Zoas. It started as a little patch on the front of the rock and now it covers most of the rock and surrounds the Zoa colonies. What it is and how do I get rid of it? Thanks.

It’s really hard to tell much from that pic but it sounds like an aggressive sponge. If so, you can just cut and peel it off.

 

[motortrendz]

A better pic under white lights and maybe circle what your asking about...

 

[menglish]

I think it may be purple clove polyps.
take a pic under white light

 

[Tanggy]

The bubble tip anemone?

lol. No. I'll see if I can get a better picture.

 

[KJ]

Sponge.

 

[austenreefer]

This is like a where’s Waldo game

 

[Tanggy]

Sorry for the late pictures. I've gotten new photos and circled it. It looks like some sort of polyps. When the lights are out it seems to disappear. When the lights are on, it extends out and covers the rock and seems to be encroaching on to the Zoas next to it. What is this and how do I get rid of it. Thanks.

 

[resortez]

It would be easier to ID under white lights but they kind of look like blue clove polyps, some call them purple cloves. The only other thing that comes to mind are daisy polyps. Hopefully that helps.

 

[Tanggy]

It would be easier to ID under white lights but they kind of look like blue clove polyps, some call them purple cloves. The only other thing that comes to mind are daisy polyps. Hopefully that helps.

Thanks for your reply. It does look like some sort of clove polyps. I've did a search on how to remove them and it seems bleak. I guess there are a few options 1) tuxedo urchin 2) manual removal 3) Fenbendazole. The third option seems intriguing . Would Fenbendazole have any bad effect on my LPS (scolys, goniopora, torch and zoas)? thanks

 

[menglish]

Check this post out

Eliminating Blue Clove Polyps with Fenbendazole

A few years ago, I purchased a rock that had some beautiful Space Monster zoas on it. It also had some Blue Clove Polyp on it as well. I saw the BCP, I knew it was there, I really didn't worry about it at all because I had no idea what it could become. Fast forward....its now everywhere. Its...

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[Purplelobst92]

could be hydrozoas hard to tell though