Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.

[St.Pete_Reefer]

atomicenergy, it's a bristleworm. Good clean up crew.
St. Pete, doubtful. My goby sits on them sometimes LOL. Now if it's a eunicid, those can get very large and can eat fish when they're very large.

Mine is large I think so I will see if I can take a picture since he was out in the light! Which means he is hungry I'm assuming. Also might try to trap to take a good picture.

SG thanks ! :dance:

 

[adambgunter]

I have some white vine like things with small white deters on the en growing out of some live rock I bought any idea what they are?


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[SushiGirl]

Adam, from the description, sounds like a type of hydroid. I have them too.

StPete, even large bristleworms are fine, eunicids aren't though. I went "hunting" last night & pulled out a couple dozen bristleworms, a few 5+ inches. I overfeed so I have way too many. When I can catch 2 at a time with the tongs & they get bold, I thin them out. There are probably 7 large ones that live with my pistol & I caught 2 of them last night. When the pistol or me have to poke them out of the way so he can eat, it's time! LOL

 

[St.Pete_Reefer]

Adam, from the description, sounds like a type of hydroid. I have them too.

StPete, even large bristleworms are fine, eunicids aren't though. I went "hunting" last night & pulled out a couple dozen bristleworms, a few 5+ inches. I overfeed so I have way too many. When I can catch 2 at a time with the tongs & they get bold, I thin them out. There are probably 7 large ones that live with my pistol & I caught 2 of them last night. When the pistol or me have to poke them out of the way so he can eat, it's time! LOL

LOL. I'm going to buy another skunk cleaner to see if they can take care of my dirty work. So you going hunting at night for them eh?

 

[SushiGirl]

A skunk cleaner won't go after bristles. I started out hunting with the light on, they got bold on me LOL. I spent about an hour snagging them.

 

[St.Pete_Reefer]

A skunk cleaner won't go after bristles. I started out hunting with the light on, they got bold on me LOL. I spent about an hour snagging them.

Oh I was seeing a couple of videos on youtube of the skunks eating them. I figured this would be a quick way to cut down the population a little bit and add another cool skunk.

 

[dwolson2]

I have been trying to figure out what these are:
I think this is a form of aptasia, Its green though?!?

And I think these may be hydroids maybe?

How do I get rid of the green ones. The things I am calling hydroids aren't really spreading and I don't have isses with them, but the ones that look like aptasia are spreading fast. Also, I used to have the traditional brown aptasia and my peppermints took care of them, any reason they wouldn't go for the green ones?

 

[Mabyboi]

I have been trying to figure out what these are:
I think this is a form of aptasia, Its green though?!?

And I think these may be hydroids maybe?

How do I get rid of the green ones. The things I am calling hydroids aren't really spreading and I don't have isses with them, but the ones that look like aptasia are spreading fast. Also, I used to have the traditional brown aptasia and my peppermints took care of them, any reason they wouldn't go for the green ones?

Those are mojano's by the looks of it, I just got rid of a rock that had them. Pest anemones that will pop up all over and destroy coral

 

[dwolson2]

I have a few majanos, and they don't look like them. How do you get rid of them, any fish/creature that will eat them?

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

First picture majanos, pest anemones. Second picture colonial hydroids. Also a pest.

 

[Raeloni]

Flat worms?

Flat worms?

My tank has been up and running about 12 weeks now. 90 gal 40 gal sump, ref oct skimmer, small refuguim, heater, 6t5HO 8 lunar LEDS.

I was reading on here to see if anything I needed to worry about before I really start stocking my tank and I think I have flat worms. How do you get rid of them. is there anything that eats them or what should I do. I have ALOT

 

[Lyvric]

Few odd balls.

Few odd balls.

The first is a tubeless, clinging, spiderweb that doesn't move but has been spreading.

The second looks like a long, stringy piece off poo. It's delicate and squirts much like a feather duster to reproduce (but slightly stretchs out to do so)

 

[lmsmith]

I have lots of these tiny worm-like things. They don't seem to bug anything, but an ID would be awesome.

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Spotted this on a new coral.

I'm guessing some sort of feather duster, but I've never seen anything else like it. The fan has a holographic shine to it. It sort of glitters rainbow colors when you look at it from different angles. Really weird. Anyone know what it is?

 

[JustinFromAL]

I have lots of these tiny worm-like things. They don't seem to bug anything, but an ID would be awesome.

Spionid Worms, harmless but annoyingly hard to get rid of if you want too.

 

[lmsmith]

Spionid Worms, harmless but annoyingly hard to get rid of if you want too.

Oh, are they the ones that make those little hard coils that stick up off of LR?

 

[SushiGirl]

No, those are vermetid snails.

 

[nimicohgr]

Anybody able to ID these for me? I have thousands of them on my glass. They are almost too small to see with the naked eye and appear mainly as white dots, that's under 6x magnification.

 

[SushiGirl]

Hydroid jellyfish.

 

[Raeloni]

My tank has been up and running about 12 weeks now. 90 gal 40 gal sump, ref oct skimmer, small refuguim, heater, 6t5HO 8 lunar LEDS.

I was reading on here to see if anything I needed to worry about before I really start stocking my tank and I think I have flat worms. How do you get rid of them. is there anything that eats them or what should I do. I have ALOT

BUMP never got a response so I'll try again, any info would be greatly appreciated :fun4: