Help With COLONIAL HYDROIDS !!!

[djtonton]

I think i have some colonial hydroids in my tank at work. I have quite a bit of brown tubes with hairs coming out of them. Looks a little bit like a feather duster? I dont have any pics at the moment ( will hopefully have some tomorrow). This is kind of what it looks like just not that big of feathers coming out of them.<br><br>

Anyone know how to remove these?

:rolleye1:

 

[1628mna]

man i hope these aernt bad because im getting alot of them in my tank

 

[ReefWidowed]

they are bad.....if it is limited to a single rick, I'd pull it and toss it outside until it is dead. You can also either chisel carefully under the droids and remove the section or some use a dremel. I've heard of people epoxying over it, or burning the snot out of them with kalk paste.

Good luck, it will feel like an uphill battle

 

[djtonton]

I was reading you can kill it with ice. Iam trying to find the forum i read that in

 

[djtonton]

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Here is the site!!

Quoted from the site:

A month ago I had about 2 litre of leftover RO water after a waterchange. I poured them it icecube trays and some plastic containers. When they froze, I pulled out the ice cubes out and i rubbed them onto the hydroid patches. I had to use like 4 or 5 ice cubes per patch. I would smush the hydriod patch with the icecube and the icecube melt pretty fast. If i had to redo this, I wouldn't even bother with icecube trays. Just get a big block of ice to do this. Work thoroughly but quickly, the cubes melt fast.



3 weeks later. All the patches that I smushed with the icecubes have gone away and haven't grown back

 

[GROWSZOAS]

Are these what grow in zoos a lot of the time?

 

[1628mna]

now that i know they are bad, what makes them so bad? this is the first time i have ever heard of these, are they a new thing that just starting to pop up on live rock?


thanx mike

 

[smmscott]

They are really mean to corals stinging and what not. That and they grow really quick.

 

[aznnutty]

i have some of those on one of my frags, so i'm going to try to remove all the zoas off the frag. whats the best super glue or what do you guys use to mount zoas? i used superglue gel before but it doesnt always stick days later