Strange Critters Killing My Ricordea Florida!

[caca]

Hey guys-- I'm new here and in need of desperate help.
I've got several Ricordea Floridas, and last week I lost one of my orange rics rather quickly. Shrank up, began producing brown slime, and bam it was dissolved in no time. Well now another one of my orange rics is doing the same thing.

SO, I decided to act and do an Iodide dip, since I cannot find pure Iodine and do not have a local fish shop and needed to act fast, I figured it was better than nothing! Anyways, I take some tank water, add the iodide then add my coral.

Within seconds, these TINY red worms are exiting my coral. They are the diameter of a hair, and only a few millimeters in length. Any clue what they are? I have searched high and low and have had no luck.. I'm afraid they will get my other rics, and I'm already sick over losing one and seeing this one decline.

Thanks guys....

 

[mikenam]

http://www.melevsreef.com/aefw.html


this?

nvm they only affect sps

 

[caca]

Hey it was worth a shot! Thanks!

 

[sfboarders]

Might be acoel or planaria flatworms.

http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html

 

[caca]

Thanks... that may be it. I know what I'll be doing today.
Would they harm corals?

 

[JMCAquarium]

you sure they were red and not white ? The iodine may had made them look white.

Either way once you get Brown slime you need to physically get your other shrooms out if not a long way away for the infested site take it completely out of the tank and into a new one. The brown slime will spread to even the healthiest ric and kill it off. The slime is just the remains of the dead but for some reason it really kills off healthy rics fast.

Also be careful witht he dips shrooms don't like iodine much.