Scooterman
Well-known member
Dood your green!!
I need to go get my eyes checked, I thought I just saw Dorthy!:shock:
I need to go get my eyes checked, I thought I just saw Dorthy!:shock:
What are these lil' buggers?
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Krish
RF STAFF
ROFL! And now you have one big pack!
That's my Dorothy
lol ooooops. I guess I need to be more aware of genders in the future...lol. Please accept my deepest apologies!!!!!
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
yeah but mine is gonna go away in a few weeks, how about yours :lol: :lol:?
Krish
RF STAFF
ROFL! It was funny! No worries man
People tell me all the time I have a girls name but never I am a girl So you go down in history as a first :lol:WooHoo...I got to be the first...wait...is that a good thing?
Krish
RF STAFF
Not really(LOL) but I hope you don't have this same problem when trying to pick up a date! :shock: :lol:
Rod Buehler
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They are the medusa stage of hydroids.
Rod, what can you tell me about them? Are they harmful? Do they come and go in phases? Does a large population of them tell me anything about my water parameters?
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
LMBO!!!! :lol: :lol:
Krish
RF STAFF
ROFL!!!! Yeah...I was like 120lbs when I took that pic a few years ago. Now I'm 158lbs so I've moved from algae boy to swamp thing
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
i still like the name sprout but swamp thing works too :lol:
Brenden said:
I thought it was the Jolly Green Giant
Rod Buehler
Well-known member
returnofsid said:
If you are seeing a large population of the hydroids in the medusa stage, it tellls me that the flow in your tank is very low. They usually get washed away quickly and end up in powerheads etc. Hydroids will thrive in water that is less than perfect, but can also live in very good water conditions IME. The medusa stage will come and go, but the actual hydroid colony will "be there"
I dont have a whole lot of experience with them in a reef tank. I used to have them badly in a grow out tank when I was breeding Banggai (96-97 I think). The grow out tank had no other circulation other than an open air bubbler. The medusa hydroids would sometimes get so thick it loked like the scene from finding nemo. The hydroids would thrive on the brine that I was feeding. The medusa hydroids would sting/kill the juvie banggai.
Sk8r
Well-known member
Jake, that thing that looks like a grain of rice with tentacles I'm pretty sure is a baby aiptasia.
I'm pretty sure these are not baby aiptasia....I do believe they are the hydroid. Looks exactly like every pic I've seen of them. I do however have quite a bit of flow in the tank. At the moment, I don't have any corals in there to worry about getting stung though. I'm in the middle of a hyposalinity and only have 1 fish in there. Guess I'll just watch the hydroid, do more research and figure out if I need to do anything about them before returning corals to the tank. One thing I'm really surprised about...I was under the impression that the hyposalinity was pretty agravating for everyone other than fish...ie..inverts and so on. I'm finding that the small sponges are growing like crazy, as are the featherdusters and I'm finding quite a few baby snails lately.
Hmmm, I sure hope mine don't. I moved some of the LR that had featherdusters into the 46 bowtank so I wouldn't kill them ALL off if it does happen.
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
hey that's awesome you got some feather dusters and baby snails
.I have a feeling they'll go away after a while since you got nothing in there yet.
About the feather dusters, some fishes eat them
.my six line ate all of mine i believe, i used to have a rock full of them and now they're all gone.
