Hydroids on zoas

[enforcer8621]

I've got some hydroids on my Zoa frag. I've peroxide dipped them once for 2 minutes at 50/50 and for 15 minutes with seachem dip. They are back again. Any tips?

 

[A. Grandis]

Remove them with tweezers from their bases!
Depending on the species of hydroids they will be gone for a while, but hey could come back latter, though.

My system has 2 species of hydroids, but with he tweezers I keep them under control.

Try to search for hydroids in the zoa forum. There was another thread with some more tips...

Good luck!

Grandis.

 

[enforcer8621]

Thanks!

 

[A. Grandis]

No problem.
More here:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2391928&highlight=grandis+hydroids

Grandis.

 

[Da Maui life]

A thread to look into? http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2168261

 

[Jeremy81]

What are hydroids?

 

[impur]

I used a product called Hydroxs to get rid of my very bad hydroid problem. I had the white kind with the polyp at the end, looks kinda like a feather duster. I setup 2 tanks to deal with them. Hydroxs is meant to be used as a whole tank treatment prior to adding livestock like seahorses. I used it as a dip at twice the suggested dose for a few hours at a time. It took about 4 dips as well as manual removal to get rid of them. I'm so glad I found this product as I was ready to throw in the towel and get out of the hobby I had them so bad.

If you are interested contact Carol Keen at Fish to the nth
http://www.fishtothenth.com/Hydroxs.htm

 

[rickzter]

i had hydroids before, some brown ones, never caused me any problems and back then, i was happy to get any hitchhiker! before i knew better of course.