Brown Hydroid??

[JohnPiety]

Thanks ccampo!!! I'll do that. I was thinking even if I cook all the rock the coralline algae will reseed itself in time for the coralline algae on the hermit shells. Any do's and dont's when cooking rock. I was thinking of just boiling it in a turkey fryer for 10 or 20 minutes. Also can I put the rock right back in the tank after a thorough rinse. I'm thinking the tank will go through a mini cycle.

[Jim28fl]

I take it this is one of your first reef tanks.
There not really that bad from what i read but i have not dealt with them. I read a fresh water soak kills them. My opinion you just live with it and practice some more with this set up and remember this is a learning tank. And make sure and warn anyone you give any frags to you have them. I also see some angle fish eat them. Could be sort of fun free food. Its probably not worth a tear down n start over unless you totally bleach everything and boil it to be sure.. but everything will be dead. they could hitch hike on the snails n so forth i believe but not likely and just re seed the new set up. Also a good time to upgrade to a new bigger system if you so desire. if it a fish only cold let the paramaters get off a bit and it may kill them as well. You have more options with no corals in there i think. Good luck. If you decide to bake everything, soak the rocks real well to get the dead stuff out before you restart everything or you will have a mess. the amount of stuff i live rock its very high. the die off would be huge internally and be tons of nitrates n so forth. maybe totally new sand n dry rock is easiest. Quarintine fish n snails in the tank as a bare bottom no rocks set up for a month then add new sand n rocks could work as well. just be sure to add some sort of ceramic needs or something like a sponge to give bacteria a place to break down ammonia in the mean time.