I noticed some type of tube worm attached to my Tooth Coral, expelling a mucus and it was catching some particles from the water. The mucus was acting like a web and the worm would then consume the mucus web it released. It doesnt seem harmful as it's appears to be feeding only on the floating particulate in the water. Does anyone know what kind of worm it is? Or if it's even a worm. Is it harmful? I will try to get pictures of it tonight but it is rather small.
Strange Worm??
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Sounds like a vermentid snail. They shoot out a mucus web to capture food and then the pull back in the web to eat what they have caught. They are typically nothing to worry about, but will spread, and irritate some corals with their web. Manual removal can be difficult, but you can squirt some super glue gel into the opening of its home and it will starve/suffocate.Addikted2Cichlids;5020647; said:
Sounds good, will any super glue work or are some tank safe? It looks cool just the one but I don't want a couple hundred with webs all over my tank. I think I will kill it.
I dont know that they multiply very quickly... I guess it depends on how heavy the tank is fed.
Any super glue works, just get super glue gel and turn your powerheads off while you are applying it. The regular liquidy super glue just makes a nasty mess.
Any super glue works, just get super glue gel and turn your powerheads off while you are applying it. The regular liquidy super glue just makes a nasty mess.
Ok thanks, I only feed once a day and not heavy at all.. I will be "sealing" it's fate soon. Last night I saw is releasing either poop or eggs, not sure which. So it needs to die as I don't want these things everywhere..
I saw one at an LFS the other day where it decided to plant itself smack in the middle of a giant monti cap. Thought it looked kind of neat, and the owner didnt seem too bent on doing anything about it.
But, as a zoa owner and fan, I would be real quick to get them out if I had any to deal with.
But, as a zoa owner and fan, I would be real quick to get them out if I had any to deal with.
Yeah fortunately this one is on a dead section of the coral, But I would hate if they started spreading and growing on my corals. Except for my Xenia, maybe it would slow it down from growing so much. That stuff is like a weed..
xenia needs to be put on an island otherwise your tank is as good as gone to it...although I have heard that CC stars will eat xenia, so you might give that a try. Nothing stops them from eating other corals as well however.
Yeah, I currently have the Xenia that I bought still attached to the original piece of rock, It has tripled in size and also a big piece transfered to another piece of rock in my tank. So now I have to seperate groups of it in my tank. I'm going to take back the original piece I bought and either give it away or see if my LFS will trade.. The piece that jumped has grown huge, but it's at the highest point in the tank so it has no where to go now. It will only grow outward now, which I wil be able to trim back.. It's amazing how fast it will attach itself to other things though..