Colonial athecate hydroids - problem ???

K' Family Reef · 10/23/2007, 09:25 AM

i just identified some of these on a couple pieces of LR rubble in the fuge - have had them for some time

do these pose any potential problems in the system?
do they spread

here is the best pic i have been able to find (on the link below)

should i toss the LR piece or do i not need to worry about them becoming a pest?

thanks

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...nidarians.html

GoingPostal · 10/23/2007, 09:36 AM

They can be next to impossible to remove, I would take out any rocks with them and bake them. You can try tweezing them off or putting a think kalk paste on them but they are very difficult to kill and will sting corals to death.

K' Family Reef · 10/23/2007, 09:52 AM

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Originally posted by GoingPostal
They can be next to impossible to remove, I would take out any rocks with them and bake them. You can try tweezing them off or putting a think kalk paste on them but they are very difficult to kill and will sting corals to death.

GoingPostal - thanks for the reply - do they spread and in what manner do you know?

could easily throw out the lr rubble pieces - one has some nice looking orange zoanthids on it but if these hydroids spread say like aiptasia (or to those proportions) then the whole LR piece can go to the trash - already dealing w/ aiptasia and just bleached some LR bec of majanos.

S_Stoney_S · 10/23/2007, 11:17 AM

joes juice them, mine were small however no bigger than 1/4" high but a biggish patch. Cleared them up fairly well, still watching for survivours though.

K' Family Reef · 10/23/2007, 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by S_Stoney_S
joes juice them, mine were small however no bigger than 1/4" high but a biggish patch. Cleared them up fairly well, still watching for survivours though.

hey Stoney thanks!

did you find they spread around to other rocks?

regards

jesslovesfish · 10/23/2007, 12:47 PM

I had to remove the part of the rock mine were on - haven't had a problem since, but no "squirting" methods worked.

10/23/2007, 09:25 AM	#1
K' Family Reef Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,966	Colonial athecate hydroids - problem ??? i just identified some of these on a couple pieces of LR rubble in the fuge - have had them for some time do these pose any potential problems in the system? do they spread here is the best pic i have been able to find (on the link below) should i toss the LR piece or do i not need to worry about them becoming a pest? thanks http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...nidarians.html

10/23/2007, 09:36 AM	#2
GoingPostal Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,517	They can be next to impossible to remove, I would take out any rocks with them and bake them. You can try tweezing them off or putting a think kalk paste on them but they are very difficult to kill and will sting corals to death. __________________ Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. *Jack Handey

10/23/2007, 11:17 AM	#4
S_Stoney_S Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Guildford, UK Posts: 150	joes juice them, mine were small however no bigger than 1/4" high but a biggish patch. Cleared them up fairly well, still watching for survivours though.

10/23/2007, 12:47 PM	#6
jesslovesfish Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 34	I had to remove the part of the rock mine were on - haven't had a problem since, but no "squirting" methods worked.