digitate hydroids removal

[Jhead85]

Starting to get a lot of digitate hydroids in my tank..anyone know the best way to remove or rid of them thanks

[wangspeed]

Ugh. What an eyesore. I had them for months. Then I think at least my melanarus wrasse decided jellyfish taste good and decimated the population. He ate something that made him bellyache and spit up food for a few days and then died. Maybe he shouldn't have eaten them.

 

I see one in the sump or display every now and again, but the population seems to be self regulating now. Most of the advice I found basically said they would eventually starve themselves out.

 

 

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Warren

[Jhead85]

Every few days I'll suck the ones up that are on the sand bed but as for the ones in and on the rock don't know what to do..tried hot RODI water and it dident do much cus they keep spreading..I've read they go away for some and other said they had to strip the rock down witch I'm not trying to do..guess will see what happens

[gmerek2]

I had hydroids. I pulled them off the rock like pulling weeds. The ones I couldn't reach got kalk paste on them. Good luck

[zygote2k]

I had hydroids in a 400g tank and introduced 3 filefish to eat the aiptasia. apparently they ate the hydroids too....

[lutz123]

My experience has been that they seem to die back on their own in most cases.

[Jhead85]

Guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens..I've been feeding about half of what I usually been doing so will see what happens in a month or so with that..

[Jhead85]

Update for hydroids..not sure if getting a scorer blenny helped but I don't see but a few hear and there since I purchased him over a month ago....In my opinion he helped my hydroid problem disappear fyi