hydroids how did i get them and how do i get rid of them?

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Wha is the best way to get rid of hydroids? i have a few different kinds the feather duster kind and the digitate. i understand getting them has something to do with nitrates and i know they are bad for seahorses, but how do you get rid of them?
 
Rob, shame you're in Austin these days, Matt discussed them tonight at the meeting. I take a razor blade and scrape them and their tubes up from the rock, but you can also superglue over their tubes, or even put a glop of putty over them. (I wouldn't recommend the last without turning off your skimmer, as it'll likely go nuts.)
 
shame you're in Austin these days said:
I agree but... on the other hand i really like it down here. im pretty close to all the major cities dfw, SA and Houston.

commandertekki was giving me info about using the lime but i only have 2 problems with that , 1 where do i get lime? and 2 it makes me nervous to squits stuff into my tank that can melt anything.

scott you pull your rockwork out of th tank for the superglue how long tdo you leave it out?

what kind of putty? i dont have a skimmer on the nanocube, (no room) and those fission skimmers SUCK better than my vacuum.
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Kroger's sells Mrs. Wage's pickling lime, but on a nano, you'd want to use a _very_ tiny amount.

We had hydroids on a rock in Lisa's nano, so it was easy to pull the rock and scrape it. What we couldn't get to, we just put a glop of superglue gel over and immediately put the rock back in the tank. I'd imagine that doing it in the tank might be messy, but not dangerous, unless a fish or crab happenned to stumble into it within the first 2-3 minutes until it set up.

The putty I mentioned is the Aquamend stuff used for mounting frags (get it at the LFS).
 
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