hydroids

[poknsnok]

I noticed some cute looking brown/yellow polyps growing on some live rock a couple months ago and thought nothing of it til I saw them on another piece yesterday. did some searching and they are hydroids. not good from what I gather. what is the best way to get rid of them or control them.??

 

[Lunchbucket]

get them out NOW before they spread to all your rock, your glass, and your sand

Lunchbucket

 

[poknsnok]

how?? they dont seem to be spreading too fast... im afraid to manually remove for fear of spreading. I may remone the rock and cut off. what have you done?

 

[PUGroyale]

These are little patches of small tubes with little brown polyps correct? I have a few little patches... they don't seem to spread much at all. I think they're ugly though... perhaps I'll kill them :hammer:

 

[Jeffie]

Listen to what Lunch said- They have the ability to spread easily and devistate your tank if you don't rid them.

 

[Eve]

Listen to Lunchbucket and Jeffe or every rock in your tank will look like this

 

[poknsnok]

ok.. ill do whatever needs to be done... like I said before.. HOW???

 

[poknsnok]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7778892#post7778892 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PUGroyale
These are little patches of small tubes with little brown polyps correct? I have a few little patches... they don't seem to spread much at all. I think they're ugly though... perhaps I'll kill them :hammer:

thats exactly what they look like. anyone care to say how to get rid of them??.

 

[poknsnok]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7778992#post7778992 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jeffie
Listen to what Lunch said- They have the ability to spread easily and devistate your tank if you don't rid them.

Jeffie. what is the best way to get rid of them?

 

[PUGroyale]

well I just took out a couple patches :uzi: took the rock out and grabbed the tubes/mat with tweezers and ripped... seemed to get most of it.

 

[easttn]

Set the rock in the sun for a week or two. It will kill everything, but it will be easier to grow new stuff on the rock than eliminate the droids later.

 

[Ciarán]

Well the small polypoid things i had on my rock were so small that i couldnt distinguish whether they were hydroids or aiptasia so what i did was, i got a chizel and a dremel and basically removed the whole chunk where the little colony of 4-5 polyps had set up shop. I took about half an inch under them and basically scalped the section of LR free of polyps. I couldn't categorically identify what they were but i knew they were aiptasia or hydroids and i wasnt taking a chance with either.

 

[Lunchbucket]

what about a blow torch to fry them? that should kill them. like a little butane torch.

Lunchbucket