infestation!!!

[Donsoceanview]

I have 2 infestation problems in my 12gal Nano. Or maybe 1,
bristle worms. I have at least 3 dozen some large. The other I'm not sure , they look like grenish brown flakes and they get all over the rock sand and glass. I sucked some off into a bucket and noticed them crawling like worms. They don't seem to be hurting the corals but they continue to multiply. What can I do to rid the tank of both?

ASAP!! Please

With limited internet I was unable to post this, since then I have given the entire tank except fish a fresh water dip. An extrordinary amount of whatever this was sluffed off the rock and corals. Seems as though only minor damage was done to my xenias, all other coral sprang back well.

Got at least a dozen bristle worms out and have only seen 1 live one so far.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Your bristleworm population will explode if you are a heavy feeder. Try cutting back on your feedings. The other things sound like they may be flatworms. Sucking them out with some airline tubing will help cut down the population, but to completely rid the tank you'll probably need to do a Flatworm Exit treatment.

 

[wrott]

1) Bristleworms are good, their #s indicate the amount of detritus (and overfeeding) in the tank. They will fluctuate with this criterion.
2) Flatworms are not directly harmful, but they can smother and irritate corals. Again their #s are correlated to same criterion as above.
More WCs, less food, siphon as many worms out as you can w/ each WC.
I would not FW dip corals-- except zoas. You can FW dip fish for ectoparasites.

 

[Donsoceanview]

I do 5 gal w/c every other week, no carbon for over 2 months now. Only filtration is L/R rubble.
I went from just a maroon clown to 2 perculas and a clwon goby about a month ago. I have 2 anchor corals 2 salks each( came from splitting 4 stalk) br/pink zoos,br/ buttons green star and pink mushrooms. And a blasto I put in my 75 after the dip.

Thanks for advice won't dip any more corals, like I said looks like only corals adversely affected were the xenia, but I think they will bounce back as they are pulsating I'm not too worried if I lose some I have healthy ones in my 75 and the multiply like crazy.

BTW my wife has to feed them everyday or she'll go nuts, I'm gonna have to tell her not somuch food.

 

[xtm]

The bristleworms are not really a problem, in fact they are beneficial sand-dwellers that eat leftover foods. I wouldn't worry about them.

As for the flatworms, you can borrow a wrasse (maybe a sixline wrasse) and it will feed on the flatworms. Just keep the tank covered, wrasses are mostly jumpers.

 

[rando45]

no worries about the bristleworms as said a few times above, and FYI there is a product called flatworm exit that works pretty well if you are worried about them