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how do i kill it found this stuff on a zoos frag tryed picking it off just comes back so what kills it?
 

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i have a bunch on certain frags, but mine are a diff. type some are lethal
 
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been this way for about 1 year now i just keep picking them off but i want a way to get rid of them and know what the heck they are? are they hydroids?
i have a bunch on certain frags, but mine are a diff. type some are lethal
 

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These are hydroids that look similar to you creature id..if yours look like this they are most likely hydroids

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My hydroids look like these

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Yea they look like hydroids to me as well....Maybe try super glueing them over maybe? I have done that with aiptasia and it has worked, kalk paste might burn the polyps so you don't want to do that. Or you could try a dip in Coral RX, not sure since I have not used it before....
 

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Ive done the glue..it works but hydroids(microscopic ones) travel in the water and end up on LR as now i have small colony popping up on my rock
 
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they only been in my tank for about 5 days should i crazy glue them?
Ive done the glue..it works but hydroids(microscopic ones) travel in the water and end up on LR as now i have small colony popping up on my rock
 

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I would glue what i could without harming the zoas to slow down their reproduction... mine dont harm anything but they look horrible nd like i said earlier they grow every where
 

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Brown Hydroids or Myrionema amboinense is right, the link to the right is one of the best article I have seen.
I had some in a 10 gallon Nano that I had, spread like wildfire and were almost impossible to get rid of. I
finally had to take the rocks out of the tank that had them on and belched them which was the only way to
kill them.
 

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