White stringy critter

[jackalexander]

I have these white/brown stringy things on a couple of different rocks. It sort of looks like a feather duster but super super thin. Anyone have any suggestions?

sorry for the bad photo quality. It’s just hard to capture a good picture of these guys..

 

[Fishyfish22]

try to get a pic under whites

 

[jackalexander]

try to get a pic under whites

will do!

 

[jackalexander]

try to get a pic under whites

 

[king aiptasia]

type of hydroid

 

[Shmollica]

Digitate hydroids? You should be able to search that here and find threads about them.

 

[jackalexander]

type of hydroid

Thank you!

 

[jackalexander]

Digitate hydroids? You should be able to search that here and find threads about them.

anything to worry about?

 

[Shmollica]

anything to worry about?

I don’t know honestly...I had the star type of hydroid you see on the glass in a tank before and they seemed to go away over a month or so then never came back...I’d just search threads for other people’s experiences.

 

[jackalexander]

I don’t know honestly...I had the star type of hydroid you see on the glass in a tank before and they seemed to go away over a month or so then never came back...I’d just search threads for other people’s experiences.

I had the exact same thing and those suckers haven’t gone away yet.. I was told that practically every reef gets em so it’s not much to worry about but I just didn’t know about the digitate ones. thank you!

 

[king aiptasia]

anything to worry about?

Nothing to worry about and no they are not standard digitate (Zanclea) hydroids, i can't quite tell if they are a thecate or athecate species from the distance of the photo but most hydroids do not become an issue