*** is this?

[dalilgriffith]

They are spreading. The one on the top is new as of last week.

They are tiny... REALLY TINY

That rock is like two inches at best to give you scale.

 

[traveller7]

Looking like hydrozoans, i.e. hydroids. Pest like in my experience and seems the wetwebmedia guys think so too:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/hyzoanidfaq.htm

A nice post on RC:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=11097956#post11097956

 

[dalilgriffith]

I have never been a stickler for sifting through peoples stuff. So bottom line, yeah or neah... Do i keep them?

 

[Caragol]

Destroy them. Cover them with kalk paste or remove the rock.

 

[traveller7]

Most folks take a screw driver and chip them out of the rock. Depending on what you are planning on keeping in your tank, it is likely better to remove them.

fwiw: many species are not above eating/killing larvae, baby seahorse, etc. It really depends on your long term tank plans.

And let's keep the word choice well above the family friendly line.

Thanks.

 

[Caragol]

They can quickly spread all over too and sting other corals and just look ugly in general.

 

[dalilgriffith]

What I am going to do is... boil the rock. Will that take care of them? or do they go dormant

 

[traveller7]

Should kill everything, but becareful of the fumes. There is at least one well documented emergency room event involving a reef keeper breathing the fumes of boiling live rock to kill pests.

Might want to fresh water bath the rock for a week or so instead.

 

[dalilgriffith]

Traveller, I like a challenge. I have a turkey fryer for this exact purpose!

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Just get some epoxy and cover them up, thats what I did. Its simple and it wont ruin your rock.

 

[dalilgriffith]

Aqua, i got them from your store lmao. I somehow blame this on you lol

Ill probably be in for some epoxy then.

 

[rkelman]

Looks like Aiptasia to me.

 

[ChrisKirkland]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13187947#post13187947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rkelman
Looks like Aiptasia to me.

+1 on that. Use some thick kalk paste or you can buy aptasia X by red sea it works great also.

 

[dalilgriffith]

No Aip... its not an anemone.

 

[Robin764]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13189383#post13189383 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dalilgriffith
No Aip... its not an anemone.

You must be looking at a different picture than we are...+2 on aiptasia. This is the same stuff my peppermint shrimp cleaned out for me, so unless I've been misinformed on what it looks like and what pepps eat, I have to go with aiptasia.

 

[Caragol]

If they look like this up close:

They are hydroids. They look like little brown feather dusters, and you think, OH! Cool hitchikers! Until a colony like this shows up:

 

[dalilgriffith]

Caragol got it.

The have a hard exoskeleton and such

 

[Robin764]

What is the fish above the foxface caragol? Very interesting, and not trying to steal from your thread dalilgriffith.

 

[Caragol]

I stole the pictures from another thread... That's not my tank You could send a pm to jgsensor though, it's his.