Need help identifying

[New Wave]

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these are microscopic tiny red worms... im fairly confident they are contributing to the rapid demise of my reef... please help me find the identity.. and the cure!

 

[SmyrnaReefer]

i bet! good luck

 

[CAMAKAZY]

UHHHHHHHHH.... what are we looking at. Is this in a bucket or what. A little description would help.

 

[New Wave]

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im not sure what these are... but i dont think they are helping... please help me identify them

 

[New Wave]

this is 32x microscope... this is on the sps colonies... you dont see polyps because these are that small

 

[NeveSSL]

Mel, you may have better luck identifying them if you post in one of the other forums on RC. You would at least get a national audience.

Brandon

 

[zef004]

I agree with brandon. try the sps or chemistry forum. I like to know to.
Is this what bill called me about that you found something like that on your frag you got from me today.

 

[poolkeeper1]

Correct

Correct

I agree with brandon. try the sps or chemistry forum. I like to know to.
Is this what bill called me about that you found something like that on your frag you got from me today.

That was what he saw on the Frag Before he dipped it! It is the same stuff he has been trying to find out what they are in his tank. Dipping does remove them but the Damage they do is fatal to some colonies, And very quickly in less than a day from healthy to dead.
Bill

 

[poolkeeper1]

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html
Look down to the first group on the bottom right, This looks just like what they look like it's just they are so tiny you can not see them with the naked eye. The last one in the ribbon worms section.
Bill