there's a hydra looking thing in my tank!

[bickachu]

This little guy popped up in my tank recently, and I'm not sure what it is. There are a few actually, red, green, and orange so far. I first noticed one when I found it stuckto the front of the tank. After looking a bit more I noticed the others, Will they harm anything? How could I control them if need be? The pictures are the best I could get for the moment. They look something like mini anemones, with very thin, long tenacles coming from a very small main body. These little goobers are only about an inch from tip to tip.

Green Hydra Thingy

Red Hydra Thingy

 

[1979camaro]

pictures are too fuzzy to get a good ID...probably not harmful though would be my guess...i have little things like your description in my tank as well and it hasnt been a problem

 

[dbacksrat]

could be anything
yesterday i discovered two aiptasia--and i went after em with a scalpel...very stress relieving, even though i didn't get them from the "root"

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Well i hope you didn't help propagation . They are spreading soo fast. Oh and BTW everyone, joe's juice never killed anything until last week when i found an aiptasia near a tiny feather duster. When i killed the anemone, my duster died instantly.

 

[wayne]

Well the red could be anything, but the green looks to me like the legs of a brittle star tucked away in there. If you look close up they look green and black striped_

Chopping aiptasia is the best way to get them to grow with a vengeance. Joes Juice worked very nicely for me.....

 

[S.Reef]

Same here.

 

[dbacksrat]

my aiptasia are growing in the base of my leather coral--will joe's juice do harm to the leather?

 

[S.Reef]

I dont think so...as long as you dont go hog wild on the stuff...if they did harmcorals in mass quantities, then there wouldnt be any joes juice on the market.

 

[dbacksrat]

ahh--good point

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i was wrong..the duster is alive and well.

 

[S.Reef]

good to hear.