Treating hydorids without nuking soft corals

[DrewBR]

Hey everyone,

My gold hammer coral just had a polyp bailout and as I looked closely at it I saw this little hair like filaments all over the skeleton. I talked to a couple local reefers and we seem to agree on ti being some sort of hydroid. Is it possible to treat it without fenbendazole? I'm quite proud of my mush garden and would hate to nuke it.

Any ideas or maybe a more precise ID?

 

[Spare time]

I think those are spionid worms

 

[Aqua Man]

Does not look like hydroids to me. Also never heard of polyp bailout because of hydroids.

 

[Aqua Man]

The hair I can faintly see. Could be sprouts of GHA?

 

[DrewBR]

The hair I can faintly see. Could be sprouts of GHA?

I don't think it's GHA. There are tiny holes at the base of each pair of "hairs".

 

[DrewBR]

Dipped the coral in ReVive and observed several small flatworms coming out of it. I'm not sure how they were introduced in the system. Last addition was several months ago and I always dip. Might have been in the aquarium for quite a while.

 

[EuphylliaAddict]

Dipped the coral in ReVive and observed several small flatworms coming out of it. I'm not sure how they were introduced in the system. Last addition was several months ago and I always dip. Might have been in the aquarium for quite a while.

I believe I have flatworms of some kind also, I plan on getting more wrasses to help. So far I only have a lunar and 6line.

 

[Spare time]

Dipped the coral in ReVive and observed several small flatworms coming out of it. I'm not sure how they were introduced in the system. Last addition was several months ago and I always dip. Might have been in the aquarium for quite a while.

The eggs can survive the dips.

 

[king aiptasia]

Hey everyone,

My gold hammer coral just had a polyp bailout and as I looked closely at it I saw this little hair like filaments all over the skeleton. I talked to a couple local reefers and we seem to agree on ti being some sort of hydroid. Is it possible to treat it without fenbendazole? I'm quite proud of my mush garden and would hate to nuke it.

Any ideas or maybe a more precise ID?

these are spionid worms, harmless and like the company of corals

Dipped the coral in ReVive and observed several small flatworms coming out of it. I'm not sure how they were introduced in the system. Last addition was several months ago and I always dip. Might have been in the aquarium for quite a while.

makes sense it was something else hurting the coral