Sea spiders and LTA

baileyblue

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My LTA has sea spiders all over it! I first noticed them on the underside of the disc and now they have moved on to the tentacles. There are probable 30 or 40 of them in total all over the anemone.

Its trying to move around and only expanding to about half its normal size and I'm pretty sure its gonna die. Has anyone had any experience with these? Is there a treatment? I have a very nice Gigantea in the same tank. Do I need to worry about them spreading?

I can't take very good pictures because they're so small, but this is exactly what they look like:

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Please help!
 
Wow, that is gnarly.
I haven't seen this before myself, wish I could give some advice.
I wonder what their natural predators might be?
I'm officially creeped out, I hate spiders as it is, now I'm going to be staring at my LTA.
Keep us posted on outcome.
 
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