Bristle worm on seed rock

[Ashish Patel]

I set up my tank with all dry rock lastweek. Yesterday I took some seed rock from my cousins tank that I know has no aiptasia or bad algae. However, I ended up seeing a bristle worm on it and removed it. Cleaned the heck out of the rock and put in my refugium as precaution. later at night I found at least 4 bristle worms on the rock and endedup trashing it. I noticed a few aestria starfish and small bristle worms in the refugium mud and also removed. I am sure their are a few baby worms in the mud.

I plan on adding copepods and want these to be my main source of cleanup.

Should I put a trap and remove them? I know they are harmless but I rather have other forms of clean up crew. I mean I did go with all dry rock for a reason!

 

[moseley75]

Never trust a cousin or his/her live rock.

 

[Ashish Patel]

Never trust a cousin or his/her live rock.

I helped setup my cousins tank 5 years ago with all dry rock to avoid the pest I was battling at the time. My LR/system is 10 years old and the only reason I can't use my LR is because of these (filter feeding tube worms). Having battled and successfully ingratiating aiptasia I understand the importance of keeping pest at bay.. So I trashed the LR from the cousins tank and only seeded with a small piece of LR which had coraline algae. I guess I'll just try to remove them before they can reproduce and live with the results.

 

[moseley75]

No offense intended. Was just joking.

 

[Ashish Patel]

=)