White worms?

[Jwheld]

These are all over my live rock. I believe they came from a frag. What are they? Invasive? Are there and fish, invertebrates, or clean up crew that will feed on them?

Snails and hermits don't touch them.

Tank has been up 9 months and these things have been around at least 4 months.

Thanks!

 

[thegrun]

There are thousands of different worms, even with a good picture it is very difficult to give accurate identification, IMHO without a picture identification is impossible.

 

[JUNBUG361]

There are thousands of different worms, even with a good picture it is very difficult to give accurate identification, IMHO without a picture identification is impossible.

Agree

 

[Jwheld]

Thanks. I cannot get a very close picture. But I'll look it up and try to identify myself, then question how to get rid of them.

 

[aznflyfisherman]

Are they actually crawling around? Maybe its small white feather dusters?

 

[Diana A]

If it's crawling then it's a worm. I took the photo into photoshop to reduce the size and it looks like Aiptasias

 

[Jwheld]

Are they actually crawling around? Maybe its small white feather dusters?

No, they are not crawling around. Possibly tiny feather dusters. The ends do frey out like a feather duster however they do not go in and out.

If they are tiny feather dusters, any idea how to get rid of them?

 

[AlSimmons]

They might be Hydroids.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhikers-guide/

 

[Jwheld]

They might be Hydroids.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhikers-guide/

That could be correct. They look like digitate hydroids, from that pit cute at least.

Any idea of a preparator for them to clean them up a little bit?