Help ID these creatures Please. W/Photo

[ezrec]

ChiiBear - That picture is from your skimmer, right? Otherwise, you should probably start selling your excess plankton from your pea-soup tank to a local club!

 

[ChiiBear]

No, it's my refugium with lots of cheato in the background, water is actually pretty crysal clear.

 

[hugodboss]

I cant get a clear enough picture but i was told to get a flashlight at night and i would see all kinds of critters and i did...i was ok with worms and dusters but i found a weired creature it looked like a small roach but white...does anyone have any ideas or know if there is any material on what lives in live rock? thanks in advance.

 

[greenbean36191]

Your white roach was probably one of the many types of "pod" that shows up in almost every aquarium. Yours was probably either an amphipod or isopod, both of which are harmless in most cases.

 

[Qckwzrd]

You'll get different view points about flatworms being harmless. There is a product called flat worm exit which kills flatworms. But when killed they release a toxin. The type of flatworms you have can reproduce very fast. For everyone you see there are five you don't. They can cover the corals and prevent them from getting light. I've had them in my old nano and they didn't do any harm. I just siphoned them out when I did water changes. I got them from a LFS when I purchased a coral. I went back a few months later and the tank I got the coral from was covered with flatworms. I gues the debate about flatworms are the same about the debate with bristleworms.

 

[ChiiBear]

Will six line wrasse eat them?

 

[ChiiBear]

Bump

 

[ezrec]

No, but time will. All my poor little flatworms vanished after about a month, no changes.

And try using some Algone (or barley straw pellets in a mesh bag) for a few weeks to fix your algea issue!

 

[mksalt]

They will continue to multiply. I tried to ignore mine but more kept showing up every day. Bought a six line wrasse and he had the problem under control in a week. He was real fat for a while. Today he continues to pick at the rock at things I can't see and eats any prepared food I throw in the tank.