Can anybody ID these creatures Very Weird

[krazekajin]

ID Please?
They don't move and they are multiplying. It is a colony of sorts with each one about the thickness of a human hair and about an eighth of an inch tall. They are pinkesh with fine tendrials.

 

[wax32]

Hydroids?

 

[devilboy]

Originally Posted by wax32
Hydroids?

yea thats what they look like too me...

 

[krazekajin]

I assume they aren't bad. Are they filter feeders, etc?

 

[wax32]

They are bad... they sting corals and you. But yes, they are filter feeders.

 

[krazekajin]

I don't want to question your call, but I did a search on the forums for hydroids and they look nothing like these. In fact there is a small feather duster growing in with them.

 

[wax32]

There are different kinds I think. But I'm by no means an expert. I know I see pictures of that exact critter a lot though. Search through some hitchhiker threads. The hydroid I had in my tank looked kinda similar to those and it stung the heck out of my zoanthids.

 

[krazekajin]

What's the best way to remove them, does any livestock eat them

 

[wax32]

I took the rock out it was on and broke it off with some needlenose pliers. Grabbed a nice sized chunk of the rock too in case it had any kind of roots.