Colonial Polyp?? id please

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it is definately not a colonial polyp. I tried several times to take a better picture with a faster shutter speed. To the naked eye, it looks very feathery and soft and sort of looks like a dandelion when it goes to seed (stem like with an upside umbrella looking top, except smaller.

I am guessing now it is not a type of coral, maybe a flower gorgonian.

 

Hydroid me thinks (pretty much positive at that). Definitly not any of the corals mentioned above and not a gorgonian. From that last description (that I just read after writting the last sentances) I feel it definilty is a hydroid.

 

I found a web site for Hydroids and yes, it is a hydroid.

Here is a link.....

Does anyone know how to control this. It is taking over my tank?

http://www.gotosnapshot.com/Tub_Hydroid/Tub_Hydroid_cat.html

 

Is it all over mulitple rocks that have other corals on it?
At one point I thought I had hydroids. But they didn't look like that. Seems to be a lot of variety with those things. They are known to canvas a tank pretty good.

 

Yah Matt, hydroids have many different shapes.

Jim, certain nudubranchs can help eat them. Unfortunatly, no one really imports those kind, so you kinda SOL on that. Typically, they're the "dread lock" looking nudis. No fish we can get really attackes them, nor do any inverts. You can manually remove them, and try to keep them at bay. You can also cover them with super glue or epoxy. Try manually removing them though, it's worked for me ion the past.