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03-22-2007, 07:51 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
Posts: 2,207
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Desperatley Need ID on Coral Killing Sticks
ive asked this question on many other threads & no one has given me an ID or sites with info on this creature.its annoying my corals & spreading at a rapid rate, i literally have thousands of these things.here is the best pic i can get of one. it shoots webs & covers corals when trying to ''fish'' for food.
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03-22-2007, 07:57 AM
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RiverRat
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 184
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Never thought about it but I had a big Zoa cover rock and when those dudes showed up on it the Zoa's slowley started diminishing. I would love to know what to do with them buggers.
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03-22-2007, 08:02 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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i know, its killed several of my corals.including a dendro i kept healthy for 6 months until these things started attacking it..& even my xenia's are annoyed by them, ive been killing them by the dozens every week, but they just keep coming back.
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03-22-2007, 08:09 AM
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RiverRat
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Pensacola, FL
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The problem is killing them. Since they live in the LR, im not sure just breaking there home and pulling there tenicles will do it. Luckly for me they are only on one liverock so I guess I could remove that rock from my tank. I am with you in not knowing how to take care of the problem when removing rock is not the option.
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03-22-2007, 08:18 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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SnAil'S ???? well i cant keep particulate matter to a minium, i have filter feeding corals, and alot of them. |
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03-22-2007, 08:20 AM
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RiverRat
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Pensacola, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
SnAil'S ???? well i cant keep particulate matter to a minium, i have filter feeding corals, and alot of them.
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Get out the Blow torch...  
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03-22-2007, 08:22 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
Posts: 2,207
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ok heres a site on them
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
interesting quote
''Figure 5. The feeding strands of a vermetid embedded in a coral in Yap. If vermetids
become abundant in a reef tank, the copious production of mucus strands may
irritate some corals. Generally, however, they are harmless.''
i know better than to belive there harmless..... |
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03-22-2007, 08:24 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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''Fortunately, some fishes such as Copperband butterfly fishes, seem to eat them, and some hermit crabs will eat them as well. Eating these worm snails may well be the only truly beneficial effect of hermit crabs in aquaria''
Quote from article... |
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03-22-2007, 08:25 AM
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RiverRat
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Pensacola, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
ok heres a site on them
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
interesting quote
''Figure 5. The feeding strands of a vermetid embedded in a coral in Yap. If vermetids
become abundant in a reef tank, the copious production of mucus strands may
irritate some corals. Generally, however, they are harmless.''
i know better than to belive there harmless..... |
I think what they mean is they are harmless if you dont have corals within reach of irritation!!! There has to be a way to kill them, there is always a way to rid something!
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03-22-2007, 08:26 AM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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i say thats what sickend my carnation coral......exact effects...& i have photographic evidence to support my claim..thanks for the info ''greenbean''
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03-22-2007, 08:31 AM
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Rogue Water is Trouble!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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I have em too...I think they have irritated and maybe killed some of my Zoa's...I thought they were generally harmless too.
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04-11-2007, 12:47 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,382
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a friend of mines tank is full of them! ... have you figured out how to kill them yet?
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04-11-2007, 04:14 PM
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Forever Reef
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: WV
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nope, i just keep breaking them. i got 1 rock thats probably got 70 of them or more on it..so i turned it upside down into the dirt so they will perish insted of them spreading & killing more corals.
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