what are these

[daugherty]

 

[bobby]

I'm guessing yellow colonial polyps.


GASP!!!! What happened to your lovely avatar?

 

[poolshark181]

they're a type of hydroid. they sting. screwed up my hand pretty bad. might even be able to see the pics of it in an old thread.

 

[poolshark181]

oh, also, they spread like wildfire.

 

[Bifferwine]

I also think hydroids. Kill them ASAP.

 

[poolshark181]

found it, yep, colonial hydroids.
https://www.livingreefs.com/forums/newbies-to-reefing/11918-coral-sting.html

 

[daugherty]

that is what i was wondering what is the best wy to kill them?

 

[yote]

Any way you can pull that rock out?
We've never had any luck killing them any other way at the LFS.

 

[daugherty]

ya know i have these little tube things all over my rock and never put 2 and 2 together there seems to be nothing in them but just this patch and another one. i am not shure if i can get this rock out or not.

 

[yote]

Heres something I just thought of.
Get a box of baking soda and bake it.That will give it a high PH.Then mix a couple of teaspoons full in a glass of RO/DI water.Then use a hyperdermic needle and shoot a few of the hydroids up.The combination of the baking soda buffer along with the high PH inside the animal may kill it.
Just a thought.

 

[daugherty]

do you think that kalk will work.

 

[yote]

Its worth a shot.

 

[Oscarsdad608]

Did you see what you did there Yote!

 

[yote]

Not untill you mentioned it:D

 

[lightcs4]

I'm guessing yellow colonial polyps.


GASP!!!! What happened to your lovely avatar?

I appreciate the change in avatar. It's not that I am too tightly wound, but I do have a hard time having my kids come in the room when they are bouncing. Plus, I just always associate Daughtery with his current avatar.

 

[daugherty]

Heres something I just thought of.
Get a box of baking soda and bake it.That will give it a high PH.Then mix a couple of teaspoons full in a glass of RO/DI water.Then use a hyperdermic needle and shoot a few of the hydroids up.The combination of the baking soda buffer along with the high PH inside the animal may kill it.
Just a thought.

i made a thick baking soda soultion and all it did was made them close up for a couple hours some of them have not opened back up yet but many of them did. so i guess that works some times on some of them.

 

[yote]

Didnt know if it work on hydroids or not since I've not had that fight yet.
Works like a charm on aiptasia though.

 

[daugherty]

well i went after them again tonight i went to the local farm store and got some needles for cows and went home and mixed up some kalk and stuck the damb things it feels like they have a meaty center and when i injected them most of the solution stayed inside them it seemed so i hope i got them it has been about 45 min to an hour and they have not came back out yet. here is my hydroid battle kit

 

[yote]

DANG JAMES
You shot em with a 22ga needle?Just the needle alone should have killed them:D

 

[Bifferwine]

Apparently, he means business.