What is this LPS eating worm?? - Page 2

kingfisher62 · 03/30/2013, 05:05 PM

Hard to see. Is it the same thing that I had ? Was there sand tubes leading to your acan?

Jstn · 03/30/2013, 07:05 PM

Its hard to tell, but there is a path in my liverock, inside this crevise I have been noticing a build up of a sand like substance. Mind you I dont have live sand, I have black porous hawaii "sand". So the appearance of this white coarse sand leads me to believe its the outcastings of their burrowing. It was hard to get a picture, especially with an iphone, it had thin black rings on every sediment. I couldn't see the head, i feel lucky being able to grab what I did.

kingfisher62 · 03/30/2013, 07:51 PM

Sounds like what I had!

Jstn · 03/30/2013, 09:57 PM

Did you only have "one"? or did you find alot. I am concerned it can reproduce like bristles, cause i have quite a bit of them.

OrQidz · 03/30/2013, 10:15 PM

oh this is exactly what I had! Wow I'm lucky I was able to isolate the rock it was in and remove that rock. I haven't seen a recurrence since then. Hopefully they aren't as prolific as the bristleworms.

Jstn · 03/30/2013, 10:16 PM

I set my radion led fixture to 10% red only, sure enough I found the hole he lives in, I think i just got his tail, I can see a head with a few pinchers sticking out the hole.

Man is he ugly.

OrQidz · 03/30/2013, 10:27 PM

oh ick....the head is they key. Have you googled some pics? These things are horrifying!

kingfisher62 · 03/31/2013, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jstn

Did you only have "one"? or did you find alot. I am concerned it can reproduce like bristles, cause i have quite a bit of them.

I am not sure how these guys reproduce But I only had trouble with this one worm for 5 years .There was never multiple sightings at the same time or multiple sand tubes. It was bad enough having one , more than one would have been a nightmare.

Jstn · 03/31/2013, 06:37 PM

got him

the other night I just grabbed the tail. I found his lair hole last night, this morning I chipped a piece of rock and vola, no more worm in my tank.

kingfisher62 · 03/31/2013, 07:33 PM

Good job, you were lucky it was holding up in an accessible rock.

03/30/2013, 05:05 PM	#26
kingfisher62 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: massachusetts Posts: 4,972	Hard to see. Is it the same thing that I had ? Was there sand tubes leading to your acan? __________________ 55g Tank - 216W T5's Foxface, tomato clown, yellow tailed damsel, Starrie Blennie, LPS and softies 29G Biocube- 120W LED's 2 percular clown, Six line Wrasse , LPS and softies Current Tank Info: 55 gl. Reef tank ,29g biocube Reef

03/30/2013, 07:51 PM	#28
kingfisher62 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: massachusetts Posts: 4,972	Sounds like what I had! __________________ 55g Tank - 216W T5's Foxface, tomato clown, yellow tailed damsel, Starrie Blennie, LPS and softies 29G Biocube- 120W LED's 2 percular clown, Six line Wrasse , LPS and softies Current Tank Info: 55 gl. Reef tank ,29g biocube Reef

03/31/2013, 07:33 PM	#35
kingfisher62 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: massachusetts Posts: 4,972	Good job, you were lucky it was holding up in an accessible rock. __________________ 55g Tank - 216W T5's Foxface, tomato clown, yellow tailed damsel, Starrie Blennie, LPS and softies 29G Biocube- 120W LED's 2 percular clown, Six line Wrasse , LPS and softies Current Tank Info: 55 gl. Reef tank ,29g biocube Reef

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03/30/2013, 07:05 PM	#27
Jstn Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis Mn Posts: 622	Its hard to tell, but there is a path in my liverock, inside this crevise I have been noticing a build up of a sand like substance. Mind you I dont have live sand, I have black porous hawaii "sand". So the appearance of this white coarse sand leads me to believe its the outcastings of their burrowing. It was hard to get a picture, especially with an iphone, it had thin black rings on every sediment. I couldn't see the head, i feel lucky being able to grab what I did.

03/30/2013, 09:57 PM	#29
Jstn Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis Mn Posts: 622	Did you only have "one"? or did you find alot. I am concerned it can reproduce like bristles, cause i have quite a bit of them.

03/30/2013, 10:15 PM	#30
OrQidz Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 825	oh this is exactly what I had! Wow I'm lucky I was able to isolate the rock it was in and remove that rock. I haven't seen a recurrence since then. Hopefully they aren't as prolific as the bristleworms.

03/30/2013, 10:16 PM	#31
Jstn Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis Mn Posts: 622	I set my radion led fixture to 10% red only, sure enough I found the hole he lives in, I think i just got his tail, I can see a head with a few pinchers sticking out the hole. Man is he ugly.

03/30/2013, 10:27 PM	#32
OrQidz Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 825	oh ick....the head is they key. Have you googled some pics? These things are horrifying!

03/31/2013, 06:37 PM	#34
Jstn Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis Mn Posts: 622	got him the other night I just grabbed the tail. I found his lair hole last night, this morning I chipped a piece of rock and vola, no more worm in my tank.