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04/20/2012, 05:46 PM
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HELP, is this aiptasia?
Today I was looking at my tank and I saw this thing on my rocks, is this aiptasia??? And I saw a worm on the glass and if you look closer they have little strings on the body and they're buried on the sand and leave the strings outside, is this a plague ?? Help plz
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04/20/2012, 09:29 PM
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Doesn't look like aiptasia color-wise. Maybe some other kind of anemone.
The worm looks like a spaghetti or hair worm.
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04/20/2012, 09:30 PM
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First 2 pics I think are called Orange ball polyps they're good hitchhikers but don't typically live that long in a cycling tank, the last pic I think may be a medusa or spaghetti worm, hard to tell.
All of them are good to have if they make it through the cycle.
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04/20/2012, 10:22 PM
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It's hard to say from the pics. It's possible.
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04/21/2012, 12:10 AM
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Thanks for the help, I'm not really cycling the tank. I already have it for like 8 months and I put a peppermint shrimp thinking that little anemones are aiptasia but he didn't touch it, and respect to the worms is there any form to eliminate it(I know they are goods for the tank) but I have too much of thems.
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04/21/2012, 04:27 AM
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a) That's not aiptasia. It's hard to say what it is, but it looks like a young curly cue or corkscrew anemone. It shouldn't be a problem.
b) Could be a spaghetti worm, but mine don't look like that. c) Consider some kind of wrasse. I have a coris wrasse in my DT and it eats all kinds of stuff it finds in the sand. I still have sapghetti worms in the refugium and nem tank, but not in the DT. Good luck.
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04/21/2012, 07:41 AM
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thought coris wrasse isnt reef safe?
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