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[Freenow54]

Please help me identify and advise #reefsquad

 

[steveschuerger]

What exactly are you asking about?

 

[williamCreery]

This?!!

 

[Freenow54]

What exactly are you asking about?

Don't know what to call it looks like a coral it has the purple ends on it looks like a feather duster

 

[Freenow54]

This?!!

yes

 

[williamCreery]

yes

It’s like all brown algae, only it’s very light brown, I have a clump the size of a golfball in my 350 rock scape and it’s always there. I’ve even scrubbed it off with a wire brush… it just grows back. Keep you nutrientes low and it will go away… I did have some on my glass before… gone forever.

Only thing is does it look like a coral?! In your eyes?!

 

[steveschuerger]

Maybe coral , don’t know type. Or cluster of feather dusters. I’d try for maybe a closer pic?

 

[The_Paradox]

Look like strung out Zoas to me.

 

[themcnertney]

hydroids?

 

[Freenow54]

It’s like all brown algae, only it’s very light brown, I have a clump the size of a golfball in my 350 rock scape and it’s always there. I’ve even scrubbed it off with a wire brush… it just grows back. Keep you nutrientes low and it will go away… I did have some on my glass before… gone forever.

Only thing is does it look like a coral?! In your eyes?!

Probably because my skimmer stopped working over a two weeks ago. Tried new impeller no good. Just received new one today. Hope your correct worried something BAD

 

[williamCreery]

Probably because my skimmer stopped working over a two weeks ago. Tried new impeller no good. Just received new one today. Hope your correct worried something BAD

It really looks like these zoas. Double check.

 

[Freenow54]

It’s like all brown algae, only it’s very light brown, I have a clump the size of a golfball in my 350 rock scape and it’s always there. I’ve even scrubbed it off with a wire brush… it just grows back. Keep you nutrientes low and it will go away… I did have some on my glass before… gone forever.

Only thing is does it look like a coral?! In your eyes?!

no I don't think its a coral not like anything else in the tank

 

[larreef]

Ugly brown palys

 

[Goaway]

Colonial hydroids most likely.

 

[Freenow54]

It really looks like these zoas. Double check.

IT IS NOT TELLOW. at least not now. It is an off darker green with little flower pots on the little branches . The whole thing is about an inch and a half round ball

 

[Freenow54]

Colonial hydroids most likely.

So is it something that needs immediate attention?

 

[Freenow54]

Ugly brown palys

Sorry do not know what that is does it need to be addressed?

 

[vetteguy53081]

This?!!

Either colonial hydroids or yellow polyp corals. Hard to tell on phone as they are distant in the pic

 

[Goaway]

So is it something that needs immediate attention?

Some people, not many. Like them. I would pull that rock, use tweezers at the base of the hydroids and remove them. They can spread like wild fire.

 

[Goaway]

In order to be sure they are hydroids and not palythoa, the hydroids will hide in their tube. Palythoa will close up like zoas