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Hi all - this is my first reef tank so I'm sure these are easy ones....I just don't trust my own identification and want to make sure I'm OK or act if I'm not.

 

here are a few things that just came in on some live rock I used to cycle the tank with. Please let me know if there is something I should remove or be concerned with....I was also wanting to get a Peppermint shrimp...maybe that would help?

 

 

This one comes in and out of a long tube.

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Not sure about this one.

 

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I think are some small feather dusters?

 

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Ah - yeah, I was worried about Aptasia. I'll remove that rock. As for the hydroids - are those a menace or just something that will be OK in the tank?

 

And will a peppermint shrimp handle those by themselves? I like the look of hte peppermints but already have a large cleaner shrimp in there - not sure if they will get along.

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Yep, apitasia and colonial hydroids as markalot said.

 

If you can take the rock out with the aiptasia, burn it to a crisp with a micro-torch or one of those wind proof BBQ lighters. That's the only recommendation I know of that works 100% of the time and doesn't cause it to multiply down the road. Careful not to breathe the fumes that come off of it when it burns, who knows what all might be in that smoke.

 

I've had colonial hydroids like that before and they never did much, eventually died off. I've seen bad infestations of them, too. I'm sure they'd die if you burned them as well.

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Whatever you do, don't do the old lemon juice trick. Yes, the aiptasia will dissolve into nothing and you'll think, Oh great, I solved the problem. Two weeks later, there will be 20 baby aiptasia around where the one was that you nuked with lemon juice. I know this from experience. Had to throw that rock out.

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Yeah not sure why those first pics showed up so small....

 

Thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to get a butane lighter today and we'll see what happens.

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Actually - on second thought - one of the little aptasia is resting right at the base of a really nice/big purple sponge that came in on the rock. I don't want to burn the sponge. Is there another recommended removal technique?

 

OR - should I just get a peppermint shrimp? I'm fine with that option. Just have the cleaner shrimp in there already and wanted to make sure they're nice to each other.

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I've had both shrimps in a Biocube 14 and they were fine. Really did a number on the aiptasia too!! It eventually died, and a little while after I got aiptasia back. Used the lighter trick for those and it worked perfectly.

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