What is this and how do I get rid of it?

[shareef]

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Is this brown hair algae? (Center of pic). I have snails and hermit crabs. They don't eat it. When I try to pluck them out, they retreat into the rock. How do I get rid of it?

Thanks for your help

-shareef

 

[DaveK]

I can not be 100% sure, but they look like Apista anemones, If so, kill them now.

 

[shareef]

How???

 

[whippetguy]

aiptasia X, Joe's juice, some use kalkwasser paste or boiling water injected in to them. Try to control them now or they will spread like weeds. I have one or two pop up in my tank every now and then and my tank is 15 months old. I use Aiptasia X. Some folks might suggest adding livestock that eats them, such as peppermint shrimp, copperband butterfly fish, berghia nudibranchs. Unfortunately the fish and shrimp are hit and miss and the nudibranchs will die after all the aiptasia is gone.

 

[shareef]

I have one growing right near my Zoa polyps. Will the Aiptasia X kill the Zoa too?

 

[Overlook Reef]

I have one growing right near my Zoa polyps. Will the Aiptasia X kill the Zoa too?

If you put too much in it may kill some of the polyps directly beside it.

if it is a small one, use a small amount in the syringe.

 

[FrostJoker]

you could also try putting super glue on top of them heard that works

 

[shareef]

Thanks everybody! I got Aiptasia-X today and blasted most of them. Some were pretty tricky, so I couldn't get them all, so I got a few peppermint shrimp for the rest of the cleanup and upkeep. I hope it works.