Any ID on these critters ?
 

I have searched the web for umpteen hours ....

Flowers and Green Whiskers showed up about a week after adding the LR to the tank. It was cured for 3 months in the dark, but I understand how things can lay dormant forever ....
It's been maybe 3 weeks and they aren't spreading too fast, but I'd like to know what I'm dealing with :smile:

Some of the green "stems" have sprouted white "flowers" and one of my Astrea snails now has them for backpacking

There are 3 things I'm asking about;
-The Green Stems ( some with white flowers )
-The Green Flowers with White centers
-The White Flowers

Thanks for your help

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clove polys for the first and green zoanthids for the second... both are good , the cloves grow fast. both are very hardy and i bet can survive cycling.

the green stems are a type of macro...i would remove it if you could:) cheers

a tang would graze the macro easily enough:)

Great ! Thanks for that
I don't want to put any fish in yet as I still have some LR to install, but was hoping a Tang would munch this stuff

Hopefully I can get the LR in soon as I'd like to get started on stocking :smile:

I've been told that I should burn the macro ... this leads me to want to remove the rock and use my propane torch :twised:
I have tried tweezers on it and it comes back as I can't get the whole stem

Wadda ya think ?

Safe enough to wait a month or so before I get a Tang and hope the macro doesn't grow all over everything ?

yep leave it for now, and put the torch away lol

absolutely your tang will demolish it anyways. peroxide will also take it out but would make a nicer dinner for your fish:P

OK !!
Thanks both of you
I'll stop worrying about it for now, although I'll keep an eye on it

I'd sure like to get a Tang soon, but am still curing more LR :wink:

If you have the torch out burn the clove polyps too. They'll reach plague proportions in no time. I have the blue ones in my tank and there's no way to get rid of them.

I have these too, they're everywhere.

I used to think they were nice...they're friggen evil and damn near indestructable.

I have a Moorish Idol that made short work of them...then he moved on to the zoas. :neutral:

These comments have me thinkin' twice about leaving them in

God knows how long it'll be before I get a Tang through QT, + there's the new LR to think about as far as a cycle goes - me thinks I'll give peroxide a go and see what happens

I love my clove polyps. I do have them isolated on a rock of their own, however.

Good luck on the isolation, pretty soon you'll have a tank full of them.

Plus one - I agree they can be a nuisance. That said mine were all eaten by my old majestic angel.

Well, I did it
Not knowing how long it'll be until we have a Tang to eat the macro, I pulled the rock out and torched it :twised: kinda satisfying - sizzle sizzle
I got most of the cloves and figured I may as well hit the mushroom algae too
Now that I know how easy it is I'll keep an eye on things in case I want to do it again :smile:

I'll watch for NH3 for a few days

Is that the only thing he ate or did he take a liking to SPS or zoas too?