Aptasia or worse?

[catalystNfacade]

Are these aptasia or something worse? What should I do?

 

[lavoisier]

Not aptasia. Maybe a worm or possibly sponge. Let's see if someone more knowledgeable can chime in.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Hydroids

 

[catalystNfacade]

Here's a closer pic

 

[catalystNfacade]

Hydroids

So I should probably just get the snail and throw him away?

 

[MohrReefs]

Hydroids, I'm pretty sure they'll eventually go away on their own IIRC.

 

[PR_nano]

Agree with the Crabs. Looks like colonial hydroids

 

[vetteguy53081]

Colonial hydroids capable of stinging nearby coral. No predators to eat them but removal is a matter of starving them
Best starvation method is to direct water flow towards them, not at them to prevent food from reaching them. They will then thin out.
They favor brine shrimp

 

[MohrReefs]

Colonial hydroids capable of stinging nearby coral. No predators to eat them but removal is a matter of starving them
Best starvation method is to direct water flow towards them, not at them to prevent food from reaching them. They will then thin out.
They favor brine shrimp

Are you stalking me?! lol
Notated about removal, if anyone else asks ill tell them that.

 

[MohrReefs]

Wait is it on the snail or the rock?

 

[catalystNfacade]

Wait is it on the snail or the rock?

Snail

 

[MohrReefs]

Snail

Yeet the snail, or see if you can isolate it in a qt tank to starve the hydroids.

 

[catalystNfacade]

Yeet the snail, or see if you can isolate it in a qt tank to starve the hydroids.

Welp, shortly after making this post the snail crawled onto my Vortech pump and the hydroids were sucked in and then sprayed across the tank. Definitely not a solution but the initial problem, keep the snail or not, is no longer an issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯