Sea Spider
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swimboy123
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swimboy123
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awesome thread
Help!!!
Help!!!
As I read this I'm getting a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.
3/4 of all my zoanthids have been closed for almost a month.I couldn't figure out why until I found one of the buggers while cleaning a filter sock.
I have so much rockwork and zoanthids,that I'd have to completely dismantle.
If I was able to quarentine(I don't see how I could),wouldn't these beasts still be living in the main tank?
There has to be something that can be done.
Help!!!
Help!!!
As I read this I'm getting a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.
3/4 of all my zoanthids have been closed for almost a month.I couldn't figure out why until I found one of the buggers while cleaning a filter sock.
I have so much rockwork and zoanthids,that I'd have to completely dismantle.
If I was able to quarentine(I don't see how I could),wouldn't these beasts still be living in the main tank?
There has to be something that can be done.
Help!!!
Fio,
I have also had these things. I probably still do because I have been fighting them for a couple of months and recently found some baby devils, no more adults though.
There are some good threads on wetwebmedia.com about them. In fact, I recently asked about them and Bob Fenner himself answered.
If you can get some of the colonies out easily, I have been doing FW dips and Coral dips (Lugols if you can find it). This seems to stun/kill them and then you can pick them off with tweezers and smush them.
From what I can gather, you have to QT them if you can and dip them about every week or so for a while ( a couple of months?) until you either don't see them anymore for a long period of time.
I also asked about a six line wrasse and was told by the Doctors site that they would eat the spiders. I bought one and put him in my QT. He is fat, fat, fat now and he doesn't get fed but once a day. I think he must be eating them because I haven't found anymore spiders.
I am by no means an expert and maybe someone else here can add or subtract to the above. Hope this helps some and good luck to us both!
I have also had these things. I probably still do because I have been fighting them for a couple of months and recently found some baby devils, no more adults though.
There are some good threads on wetwebmedia.com about them. In fact, I recently asked about them and Bob Fenner himself answered.
If you can get some of the colonies out easily, I have been doing FW dips and Coral dips (Lugols if you can find it). This seems to stun/kill them and then you can pick them off with tweezers and smush them.
From what I can gather, you have to QT them if you can and dip them about every week or so for a while ( a couple of months?) until you either don't see them anymore for a long period of time.
I also asked about a six line wrasse and was told by the Doctors site that they would eat the spiders. I bought one and put him in my QT. He is fat, fat, fat now and he doesn't get fed but once a day. I think he must be eating them because I haven't found anymore spiders.
I am by no means an expert and maybe someone else here can add or subtract to the above. Hope this helps some and good luck to us both!
hahnmeister
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9650043#post9650043 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Untamed12
Here's a decent shot of a sea spider found in my tank today....
That doesnt look like a 'Sea Spider'... it looks like a Spider Crab (Achaeus spinosus or some other Achaeus species)
... different all together. I have had some for a while that are model citizens... same compatibility as a peppermint shrimp really.
http://www.edge-of-reef.com/brachiuri/BRAAchaeusspinosusen.htm
martinphillip03
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Would an intercepter treatment kill these things
Marty
Marty
puresalt420
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Just add a couple of yellow or green wrasse and they will be gone within the week!
FOR SURE!
Wrasse live to eat them../
FOR SURE!
Wrasse live to eat them../
