Polyp problems

[Harleyguy]

I got a polyp frag the last week and everything looked like it was going well, I started getting new “blooms� and I thought everything was going great. Then I noticed something on my frag, it looks like a tiny dandelion maybe 2mm head with a stalk about the width of a hair. These things seem to grow in clumps, and they seem to be growing in numbers fast in 3 days I would say that they have tripled in numbers. I know this is kind of vague but I would appreciate any help you can provide. I will try to take a picture of it tomorrow, but I don’t know how well they will turn out these things are tiny.

P.S. These things are only growing on this one frag.

Thanks

Shane

[rshimek]

Hi Shane,

I suspect you are seeing some hydroids. Here (http://web.archive.org/web/20020815020152/www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/aqfm/1999/mar/wb/default.asp) is an article with some basic information about them, and you will find some more information and images at my website here:

http://www.rshimek.com/rogue's_gallery.htm#"Nasty"%20Regular%20Hydroids

and here:

http://www.rshimek.com/odd_critters.htm#Hydrozoan%20Polyps%20or%20Hydroids