Unidentified hitch hiker
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Jib
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Looks like a hydroid to me.
Check out the hitchhiker guide.
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Check out the hitchhiker guide.
What is that!! A R2R guide to common new tank hitchhikers.
One of the greatest things about starting a reef tank is getting your live rock in and admiring all the diversity within it. The rock comes to life different creatures. This is a guide that I, along with a very well known critter identifier @KJ , have put together for the new reefer on what...
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Def hydroid. Can reproduce and become a problem. Get rid of it if you can.Howdy folks!
While at work my wife spotted a critter moving along the glass. Any help ID'ing and how to get rid of the free-loader is appreciated.
If that is a new tank, most likely they will go away on their own.
AdeptMrSniffles
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Thanks guys. Looked it up right after i posted and it def. appears to be a hydroid. I read in sunrise else's post that they long spine urchin that seemed to snack on them. Anyone else have luck with that method? I was intending on picking up a pincushion urchin son anyhow. Wondering if thatd have the same effect.
Medusa stage hydroids... 3 weeks into cycle. What should I do? Any CUC that will eat these or should
I'm 3 weeks into my cycle on my 90g. I don't have any fish in my tank as of yet either. I have hundreds of these things on my glass (and probably my rocks but I can't see them because they're clear). That's what they look like up close. I tried to take a pic but I had to blur the picture and...
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I had them for a while when my tank was new. They went away on their own within a week or less.
