What’s this stringy stuff coming from the rocks?

[BVF]

Could someone please help ID this? There are several, all originating from the rocks, and extend an inch or two and contract. If I pull one, it just stretches out like a strand of cotton but doesn’t really detach. Not sure, but it might be annoying the zoas in left side of some of the shots. Thanks for your help.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Digitate hydroids

 

[BVF]

Digitate hydroids

Sure looks like it, unfortunately! Thanks.
Best to just pull them off with tweezers I guess?

 

[jgirardnrg]

Digitate hydroids... mine kind of died off. Had a ton of them in there and slowed feeding to once a day for a month and I don't see many (if any) anymore. Try feeding a bit less and see what happens. I had a ton in the 60 cube and they're a non-issue now.

 

[BVF]

Digitate hydroids... mine kind of died off. Had a ton of them in there and slowed feeding to once a day for a month and I don't see many (if any) anymore. Try feeding a bit less and see what happens. I had a ton in the 60 cube and they're a non-issue now.

Thank you. At first I didn’t even think they were living things, but the way they stretch and retract got me looking closer…then the zoa started not opening nearby and I figured something more was going on.

 

[jgirardnrg]

Thank you. At first I didn’t even think they were living things, but the way they stretch and retract got me looking closer…then the zoa started not opening nearby and I figured something more was going on.

You can pluck the irritants with tweezers. It'll help.

 

[BVF]

You can pluck the irritants with tweezers. It'll help.

Thanks, I did some plucking last night and got rid of quite a few. The zoa colony had some growing among the closed polyps that I was able to pull too. Hoping that Zoa will open better today.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Sure looks like it, unfortunately! Thanks.
Best to just pull them off with tweezers I guess?

I had a boxer shrimp that eats a similar specie, if tweezers doesn’t work might be whirth a try

 

[BVF]

I had a boxer shrimp that eats a similar specie, if tweezers doesn’t work might be whirth a try

Thanks, is that also known as a banded coral shrimp? I wouldn’t mind a shrimp but the ones with the super long legs/antane creep me out, so whatever those are would be a hard pass. These don’t look bad:

 

[sixty_reefer]

Thanks, is that also known as a banded coral shrimp? I wouldn’t mind a shrimp but the ones with the super long legs/antane creep me out, so whatever those are would be a hard pass. These don’t look bad:

Yes that’s the one, they love the zanclea hydroids that are very similar to the digitate