Good pest dip for possible hydroids?

[leveldrummer]

I have some small white filiment looking stuff growing on a candycane skeleton, and I also happen to be losing a couple polyps on this same coral at te moment, What dip would be best suited to remedy this and possibly kill any pests that might be in the coral? Im debating between the Coral Rx and Revive, would either of these be a better bet? or can any of you guys recommend something else?

 

[IAShane]

I use CoralRx for my dipping. For colonial hydroids, I've found that either pasting over them with epoxy and removing it later when they're dead or physically chiseling and removing the bit of rock with them on it works best.

 

[leveldrummer]

I use CoralRx for my dipping. For colonial hydroids, I've found that either pasting over them with epoxy and removing it later when they're dead or physically chiseling and removing the bit of rock with them on it works best.

Its not colonial hydroids, they are very small whitish/clear filaments with a polyp on the end. Im not even 100% sure they are hydroids or if thats what is bothering the corals. Just a guess.

They look like this (photo not mine)

 

[cft916]

Bump. Got one or two on some of my new frags. Curious on what to do

 

[MechEng99]

The seahorse keepers use Panacur, but I've never used it. You might want to look into that....

I can say that CoralRx and Revive won't do anything on them though.

 

[Triggercdog]

I use Bayer incesticde from home depot....kills all pests for me....just google it and follow the directions for dipping....works like a charm....

 

[MechEng99]

I use Bayer incesticde from home depot....kills all pests for me....just google it and follow the directions for dipping....works like a charm....

I use it on all my corals, and it's never killed hydroids.

 

[Steveb]

Here are the ones I had -- very difficult to get rid of once established... and nope coral-rx, bayer etc. wont touch them. I have heard of panacur to but I thought it would kill other coral (maybe it was something else though..) edit... it was Fenbendazole which panacur is a brand name of.

 

[bigswordy]

Ok so I have the same problem and is killing off my wwc laser lemon colony and am not happy about it has anybody successfully removed these things by removed I mean eradicated them? Gonna pull the rock and pluck as many as possible but will a FW dip kill them? Or anything else? H2o2? I'm plucking what I can today cranking up my wp40's and gonna blast off rocks and remove all detritus from sump tomorrow to try to reduce nutrients and make them starve and feeding is stopping till they're gone... Anything that anyone has done to rid the issue all help and ideas are appreciated!

 

[chrissreef]

Can you get a paint brush and mix 1 cup tank water, 6 caps hydrogen peroxide and remove the rock and brush this over them?

Fresh water and fire also worked well for me with daisy polyps

 

[cubiclewarrior]

Here are the ones I had -- very difficult to get rid of once established... and nope coral-rx, bayer etc. wont touch them. I have heard of panacur to but I thought it would kill other coral (maybe it was something else though..) edit... it was Fenbendazole which panacur is a brand name of.

Great photo! I have these exact same things now. I am making kalkpaste and covering them to see if that works. How did your battle with these go?

 

[Art13]

where they were affecting my coral i superglued over them, it was such an uphill battle though that i gave up with that. they got pretty well spread out in my tank, i was also overfeeding at this time. I turned down the feeding to maybe once every day or two and let them go. Roughly 3 months later they were all gone.

I believe the right term for these ones are digitate hydroids.

 

[Art13]

Also, i believe they are a form of jellyfish if i'm not mistaken and nothing i've read about yet will kill them, though i think i remember reading that mystery wrasse's will possibly eat them.