Need help with id

mrniceguy · Dec 2, 2018

So been neglecting my tank due to family and work and holidays. Not happy about it but cant help it much. My tank and getting over taken of these little white dots.. I researched some and seem to be a filter worm. How do I go about getting rid of this. My second issue is I was rearranging coral and moved a rock and three worms fell out and one slipped back into a rock. That's my final straw. This is priority and christmas lights for the house gets bumped to second. Fiance isnt happy but owell lol. So what the easiest way to get rid of the critters. Thanks for your time

minus9 · Dec 2, 2018

(white dots) are Spirorbid worms, harmless. You could scrape them off the glass if they bother you? But they are filter feeders and usually show up in tanks. The other worms in the rocks could be bristleworms?

mrniceguy · Dec 2, 2018

minus9 said:
(white dots) are Spirorbid worms, harmless. You could scrape them off the glass if they bother you? But they are filter feeders and usually show up in tanks. The other worms in the rocks could be bristleworms?

Harmless or not is there a way to actually get rid of all of them. They are over taking over my rocks and some coral plugs. And what's the best way to get rid of the bristle worms.

DSC reef · Dec 2, 2018

All of what you want to get rid of are part of your good diversity. Their numbers will be determined by how much there is for them to eat.

fishyfishyfishy · Dec 2, 2018

A wrasse and some hermit crabs, and if you are feeding frozen foods or coral foods you are feeding them too. Perhaps switching to pellets for a bit. Be careful which wrasse you get some are aggressive and nip at coral.

Lovemyreef2015 · Dec 2, 2018

I agree with they are harmless to your tank. They are really good to have as part of your cuc. I would leave them be IMO.

mrniceguy · Dec 3, 2018

Sorry been at work for the past 12 hours. So are the bristle worms harmless as well.?? Wont be able to get another fish for a month or two due to tight funds for the holidays... and the sprirorbid worms due they normally over take the tank I understand they come into place in the small ecosystem but the are all over the rocks almost completely covering them