Can anyone ID these (Brown Flowers)

Irakliy · 04/25/2020, 02:17 AM

Hi ! Need some help. This flowers grow fast on the rocks. How can I move them out (kill). may be some fish or .... can eat this flowers. Thanx

Deep Water · 04/25/2020, 02:45 AM

Can you get a brighter picture?Can’t really see what your pointing out.

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101010 · 04/25/2020, 04:17 AM

Looks like aiptasia, you can try it's natural predators like aiptasia eating filefish, copperband butterfly, peppermint shrimp, berghia nudibranch, etc. Alternatively you can also inject lemon juice, kalkwasser paste or commercial products like aiptasia x but IMO they are not as affective at the first method.

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Irakliy · 04/25/2020, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Deep Water

Can you get a brighter picture?Can’t really see what your pointing out.

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yes . Thanx

billdogg · 04/25/2020, 06:07 AM

clove polyps. One of the blights of the marine aquarium. IMHO, your best (easiest) method of getting rid of them will be to remove the rocks from the tank and let them sit outside in the sun for a week or so. Then scrub well to remove the dead material and reuse.

The Green frag in the 2nd picture looks like some sort of palythoa. They, too, can spread like crazy and can also potentially harm you on contact. Use caution with them. Consider isolating them on their own little island so that if (when) they begin to spread you can more easily control them.

Anemone · 04/25/2020, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by billdogg

The Green frag in the 2nd picture looks like some sort of palythoa.

Agreed. Do a search on "palytoxin" before you do anything with those.

Kevin

Deep Water · 04/26/2020, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by billdogg

clove polyps. One of the blights of the marine aquarium. IMHO, your best (easiest) method of getting rid of them will be to remove the rocks from the tank and let them sit outside in the sun for a week or so. Then scrub well to remove the dead material and reuse.

The Green frag in the 2nd picture looks like some sort of palythoa. They, too, can spread like crazy and can also potentially harm you on contact. Use caution with them. Consider isolating them on their own little island so that if (when) they begin to spread you can more easily control them.

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Mcgeezer · 04/27/2020, 05:48 PM

Those are definitely clove polyps...and they’ve taken foothold.

Sugar Magnolia · 04/27/2020, 07:34 PM

It's nearly impossible to get rid of clove polyps. You can try trading in your rock for some clean rock but in my time that really never happened. Your other option is to pull the rock out, dry it out and reintroduce it to your tank.

04/25/2020, 06:07 AM	#5
billdogg Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Grove City, Ohio Posts: 10,806	clove polyps. One of the blights of the marine aquarium. IMHO, your best (easiest) method of getting rid of them will be to remove the rocks from the tank and let them sit outside in the sun for a week or so. Then scrub well to remove the dead material and reuse. The Green frag in the 2nd picture looks like some sort of palythoa. They, too, can spread like crazy and can also potentially harm you on contact. Use caution with them. Consider isolating them on their own little island so that if (when) they begin to spread you can more easily control them. __________________ I'll try to be nice if you try to be smarter! I can't help that I grow older, but you can't make me grow up! Current Tank Info: 120 mixed reef with 40b sump, RO 150 skimmer, AI Sol Blue x 2, and a 60g Frag Tank with 100g rubbermaid sump. 2 x Kessil A360w lights, BM curve 5 skimmer

04/27/2020, 07:34 PM	#9
Sugar Magnolia Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Northern VA Posts: 17,691	It's nearly impossible to get rid of clove polyps. You can try trading in your rock for some clean rock but in my time that really never happened. Your other option is to pull the rock out, dry it out and reintroduce it to your tank. __________________ Adrienne The only thing to fear is fear itself....and spiders.

04/25/2020, 02:45 AM	#2
Deep Water Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 40	Can you get a brighter picture?Can’t really see what your pointing out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

04/25/2020, 04:17 AM	#3
101010 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 86	Looks like aiptasia, you can try it's natural predators like aiptasia eating filefish, copperband butterfly, peppermint shrimp, berghia nudibranch, etc. Alternatively you can also inject lemon juice, kalkwasser paste or commercial products like aiptasia x but IMO they are not as affective at the first method. Sent from my ASUS_X00TD using Tapatalk

04/27/2020, 05:48 PM	#8
Mcgeezer Reef gardener Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: DeLand, Florida Posts: 1,205	Those are definitely clove polyps...and they’ve taken foothold.