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04-21-2009, 07:03 AM
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My new weapon of choice against hydroids is a soldering iron. I remove the rock and apply heat. It gives off the most wonderfully satisfying sizzle as they boil and the best part is that I can just put the rock back in the tank because it only affects such a small targeted area (unless the hydroid patch is enormous).
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04-21-2009, 02:32 PM
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I have torched the rock and put it into the sump for a bit. I will keep an eye on it before putting it back into the DT. Thanks for the help.
Cheers Lawrence
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04-21-2009, 02:48 PM
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I had a bunch of this stuff on some of the liverock I acquired from a couple used tanks I bought to fast forward my 90 gallon...
I just used a butter knife and screwdriver to chisel it all of, it came off pretty easy, almost like they weaken the rock they live in or something....
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#5
04-21-2009, 04:04 PM
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Soldering iron!! What a great idea.
I've heard of people having some minor success epoxying over hydroids, but in my case, they just grew over the epoxy. Yay. Blowtorch, soldering iron ..if the rock is structural and can't be removed maybe boiling water in a syringe? (I've had some minor success zapping valonia and bryopsis with that trick)..
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#6
04-21-2009, 05:02 PM
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You have a good idea here justinl! This may work for anything you want to get rid of.....and be less harmful to the rock. I can see this working nice on a couple of Aptasia I need to destroy
 Thanks for the tip!!! Quote:
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#7
04-21-2009, 06:11 PM
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lol, why yes, it certainly was a stroke of pure genius on my part
 I haven't tried it on aiptasia though; hopefully when they retract back into the rocks it won't keep them from being boiled. Try it out and let us know if the buggers come back. Tony, I'm sure the soldering iron method would work under water... jk
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