Is this aipastia?

[underwaterdan]

I saw these little guys popping out unearth my coral today. There coming out of white tubes. Easy enough for me to get rid of by taking the coral out and dipping it?

 

[143MPCo]

white tubes

sounds more like tube worms to me, can you post a pic?

 

[underwaterdan]

Sorry I meant to add this picture

 

[twilliard]

Feather dusters. Keepers!

 

[twilliard]

This is aiptasia

 

[143MPCo]

Agreed, tube worms!

 

[underwaterdan]

Whew. Thanks guys

 

[twilliard]

Whew. Thanks guys

Any day thats what we do!

 

[markak]

The one to the right of the duster might be apstasia ?

 

[underwaterdan]

The one to the right of the duster might be apstasia ?

It has the same white tube it's growing out of.

 

[markak]

ok can't see that in the pic. Those are good.

 

[underwaterdan]

Probably a weird question. But any clue where those would come from? I've had that coral for about 4 or 5 months and never seen those before.

 

[markak]

Hmm, don't know, sometimes hitch hikers don't show up for months.

 

[underwaterdan]

Odd I guess when I first started I wasn't doing my dipping correctly. I wouldn't have thought a hitchhiker would have made it through. Thanks again for all the help.

 

[Lenny_S]

Sure they aren't hydroids?

 

[underwaterdan]

Sure they aren't hydroids?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are tube worms, after looking it up . The tube is white and they are light in color.