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Always hard to take a photo of things so small but if you zoom in, you can see little fuzzy things growing on the rock and some of my zoa's. Can someone please help identify them so I can get rid of them. They seem like they're suffocating my Keds reds.
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Always hard to take a photo of things so small but if you zoom in, you can see little fuzzy things growing on the rock and some of my zoa's. Can someone please help identify them so I can get rid of them. They seem like they're suffocating my Keds reds.
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These are colonial hydroids and will continue to colonize but you can cut them at their base in a container of tank water or direct flow towards them, not at them to prevent food from reaching them and they will soon starve
 

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Hydroids, sometimes harmless though if they're irritating your zoas then they are problematic. @EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal and @ISpeakForTheSeas may have good treatment options
My two cents on it at the moment:
These may help:
I've heard smothering the hydroids with kalk paste may work, but here are some other threads with suggestions that might be helpful:
Edit: A relevant link in post 7 of the link above:
 

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