Hope it’s not what I think it is Help ID

[zs_reef]

Hey, could somebody please ID this for a 100% what is growing next to my mushroom.
I appreciate all the help in advance.
Thank you

 

[cngh]

cloves...blue or brown. sorry to say.

 

[Brandon3152134]

Blue clove polyps? My xenia that's really unhappy looks just like that but couldn't give u a 100%. All my corals do really well but I added a frag of xenia and it just shrunk and started growing really weird.

 

[zs_reef]

Thank you guys with the help it seems it is. I just might remove the whole mushroom colony from the tank.

 

[Brandon3152134]

Why not just isolate them to an island if your worried about them spreading

 

[count krunk]

It doesn't spread like COVID haha. Isolate the rock and enjoy

 

[jeffrey750750]

If the rocks it on is too big just hammer and chisel it to make it smaller. Its what I would do

 

[cngh]

if they're cloves, they'll spread from an island. that's been my experience. it creeps along surfaces like a vine. cloves that look like that are in my in-laws' tank.

i did a major overhaul on that tank, scrubbed the rocks they were on. ended up going bare bottom. a couple months later, they've recovered and i can see them spreading and creeping along the bare bottom and bare back wall. so, it will leave the island and eventually make "landfall" on another rock or something.

if you don't want it, take it out. it might already be too late.

 

[zs_reef]

It is on a small island, but I’ve seen how they can overtake the whole tank and I rather enjoy my corals than this free “gift”

 

[Brandon3152134]

Send them to me lol I'd love them. Help cover my overflow box.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I happen to love Covid especially papaya version

 

[zs_reef]

Send them to me lol I'd love them. Help cover my overflow box.

If you in LA come pick it up

 

[Brandon3152134]

If you in LA come pick it up

I wish

 

[Billdogg]

Those will be easy to get rid of. Take the rock out of the tank and carefully scrape them off. Rinse in some tank water and then drip a little hydrogen peroxide onto the areas where the cloves were. Try not to get any on the mushrooms, but don't panic if you do. Shrooms are amazingly resilient and will recover. After the H2O2 has been on the areas for 30 seconds or so, rinse in a different bowl of tank water and return the rock to your tank. Keep an eye on it - over the next couple weeks some may start to regrow. If so, repeat.