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View Poll Results: hydroids | |||
Never had them | 29 | 34.52% | |
Had them but don't anymore | 14 | 16.67% | |
Have them and don't care | 26 | 30.95% | |
Have them and am desperatly trying to remove them | 4 | 4.76% | |
Have them and am sort of trying to remove them | 11 | 13.10% | |
Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll |
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Hydroids
Do you have hydroids and how concerned are you about them? Any good ways to kill em?
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#2
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imo hydroids aren't really that bad as far as pests can go. i have em but im not in emergency mode to kill em off.
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#3
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Got a few patches. Tried kalk paste and really didn't work, so we've come to an agreement, I stop trying to kill them, they'll stop spreading. Truce been holding probably for more than a year.
Other than a chisel about the only other thing I can see working would be a little butune torch. |
#4
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anyone tryed to hit them with boiling water from a syring while the rock is still in the tank?
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#5
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I put putty all over them....then they were gone...and then stick a coral over the putty! I didn't have many but enough so I then covered the putty with a small mushroom colony after a week or so to make sure that they were all covered
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Sarah |
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what do they look like??
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#7
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They look like tiny little brown zoas. And they sting.
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#8
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Ah those things, I had some but they packed up and left a long time ago. It sounds like I got lucky on this problem.
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hydroidea is a diverse group. hydroids can look like a lot of things from tiny brown zoos, to clear glass like tubes, to fuzz, to single or spider-web like like connected colonies. ignoring of course each species' pelagic hydromedusa stage.
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I have 3 or 4 patches in my tank with the biggest patch being about the size of a nickel. I scramble them up with a fork and siphon the bits out every once in a while. I'm at the same place as Mark; I will quit trying to kill them as long as they don't spread.
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