Possible Pest ID

[walterp1982]

I religiously dip my new corals, and I want clarification on what I'm 90% certain is a zoa spider.

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[porpoiseaquatics]

Based on those pics....that's what it looks like to me.

 

[ff337]

Look for nudibranchs too. Circular egg patterns on stalks.

 

[walterp1982]

Luckily caught it before it got into my system. For all the googlers out there, does Melafix kill zoa spiders? Yes.

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[jennm]

Looked a bit like a colonial hydroid to me.

Never seen/heard of a zoa spider before. What is it?

Edit: I let Google do the walking. Interesting. Never have seen or heard of those before but I found articles dating back 10 years.

Jenn

 

[walterp1982]

I've had the hydroids before, and this is one of the circumstances where the camera just couldn't convey what I was looking at as well as reality. I'm not 100% on the spider, but it did move, then die, and from what I remember on the hydroids they kind of just flap around.

 

[telsonman]

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