Hydroids and Copepods

[leviburns89]

So after a very lengthy search on wth this was, I've learned that they are hydroids. From what I've read, they are a type of jellyfish? And can sting corals.

But most people say they will show up in new tanks, bloom, and then vanish out of nowhere.

I have probably 50+ on the backglass, and only a few on the front glass.

From what I've read, it's nothing to be alarmed about.

I've also noticed that I have a very nice colony of copepods breeding, and this is something I want to maintain.

So if I chose to scrape the glass to get rid of the hydroids, wouldn't I be putting these copepod babies at risk?

All of the white specs are cope babies, I thought they were just insignificant specs, but once I watched them, they move around, and have almost microscopic legs.


Is what I've stated truth? Or am I mislabeling things?

 

[leviburns89]

C'mon Cstrickland, Heathlinder, Sk8r, I know yall have some super helpful insight on this one

 

[CStrickland]

lol, not really. I'm not a big pod fan so idk if you'd hurt them, I kinda doubt it.

This type of hydroid has a few stages in its life. The little snowflake things are actually shot out of a stalk in the rock somewhere. They grab something like the glass or whatever until they get a little bigger and then they swim around like a jellyfish does, sort of pumping themselves forward. So I don't think just scraping them off the glass is going to do anything. But if you don't like looking at them, go for it.

There's other kinds of hydroids that grow big cluster stalks (colonial) or large stingy fingers (digitate), that's more of an issue than these. And yeah, they'll go away on their own soon. It's a fun stage while it lasts.

 

[leviburns89]

Ok cool,

Thanks!

 

[heathlindner25]

Sorry brother I've never had to really deal with these creatures.
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