Zoa Brown Hairs ?

[David J]

So I've been having some issues with my one Zoa colony closing up, I noticed 1-2 of these hairs when it first started but seems they have grown. Is it just brown algae or something else ? Also I would do you suggust I do
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[Brad Miller]

I'm thinking it could be the start of a hydroid or algae stem

 

[David J]

the picture never shows good cause I have to zoom but you can see a few of them. Should I just pluck them ?

 

[David J]

there is 1 in the middle you can see then 2-3 on the bottom end of the picture

 

[Brad Miller]

I've had algae grown like that from some frags I bought and they were so hard to pluck that they kept growing back...I finally cut the Zoa off and separated it

 

[David J]

I have some corals coming in tomorrow and I;ll pull it out, dip it and pull the hairs off for now.

 

[David J]

I also saw someone suggest a peroxide dip in another forum not sure how to do that.

 

[David J]

So odd thing, I woke up this am and checked and most of the hairs are gone. Can hermit crabs eat it ? theirs only a few left.

 

[David J]

Dipped it today in Peroxide for 1 minute. Not looking too good.

 

[David J]

they opened up today. Well most of them. No more algae worked good. It was green hair algae, when I dipped and then tried at first to tweaser them off then said screw it did the preoxide dip for 1 minute. They survived. 3% dip no water.