'strawberry anemones' taking over my tank

[shista]

hi everyone, i have been away for a month and i had a friend of mine feed, waterchange, and top off my 44g tank (sold all fish, kept corals). Now that im back everything looks fine in the tank exept that some corals are closing because there are small 'strawberry anemones' all over the tank (look like aiptasia and mojano but are not). I am in the process of buying a bigger tank (75 or 90g) and was wondering if it would be a good idea to move my corals to that one, then make my 44 gal a FOWL, stock it wish fish, and hypo the tank. would that kill the strawberry anemone and ick on new fish?
I would use some sort of joes juice or something but these things are everywhere! under rocks on glass, they are almost see through

 

[shista]

bump?

 

[kiefers]

they appear to be little ball anemones. I have a few in my system and they don't bother anything. If they are close to corals they can stink them. If you can take some of the rock out you can scrape them with a knife and or tooth brush.

 

[1guydude]

wat if u used ur good rock when u do the swap....than dry out the other stuff... u could use it later, just a lil cycle or cleaning of the rock would be needed.
HTHs....or u could cook it all and start fresh.

 

[spanko]

They are beautiful. Enjoy the diversity.

 

[shista]

that is a picture i got from google. they look very alike but are more see through and i know they are in the family (corynactis). they are barely visible and close when the lights come on. They tend to get close to my corals and are killing them. i have tried scraping them before. when i pay attention to even the glass, i see little brown algaelike dots everywhere and some of them are getting big enough to create mouths and become these anemones.they dont look good and they are killing everything that does look good. i feel like i need to find something that eats them or eradicate the tank.

 

[1guydude]

sounds like aptasia a lot or even hydoids,,, or hyzoids or watever...
like i said, u could cook ur rock than start over...

 

[shista]

sounds good to me.. im thinking wen i get my new tank, i boil all rock that doesnt have coral on it and then use that to cycle the new tank. after cycle is done i will bring corals in new tank.