What on earth is this

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:44 am

one more for you to see how covered the glass is this morning

Dys · Post by **Dys** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:43 am

Do not worry about those... they mean you hav a very very healthy tank going on. If you really want to rid of them Madarin gobies are great and love all those.

Chris

ShagMan · Post by **ShagMan** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:57 am

That's what I was thinking, they'd make great food for a wrasse or goby of some sort

Snakeman · Post by **Snakeman** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:24 am

Are you sure that shrimp isn' t just sleeping?

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:40 am

Snakeman wrote:Are you sure that shrimp isn' t just sleeping?

If it is, she must be playing sleeping beauty, because the bigger one just carrier her off

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:37 pm

Thanks everyone. as long as those worm looking things aren't anything to be concerned, I'll try and relax, and find me a nice manderine

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:51 pm

I wish I had the problem of too many pods.. I hardly ever see any.

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:29 am

Thank you Eddie and Tiffany again for checking this crazy tank. They spotted some kind of crawling worm on our blennie, which appears to be some kind of fluke, he is out and read to treat. Eddie also ID 100s of these spots as being some sort of star shaped critter. I am sure this tank is going to teach me ALOT about critters.
Thanks again to all for your help.

tbmoore · Post by **tbmoore** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:59 pm

If you have critters all over you need to tear down the tank and give away all the stuff....( I will try and help you in the dispursment of these corals).....sorry for your problems ....I would suggest you bring the corals over this week end so you will not do them any more harm... I will find them a good home...

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:49 pm

One more ID to make. Surely someone knows what these are?

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:26 pm

Hydroids, they are like Jellyfish with legs.. you can kalk them... probably want to work on reducing the nutrient load if they get to epic porportions.

Jahdiel · Post by **Jahdiel** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:37 pm

Thanks Brandon. I will do some reading on it tomarrow and hope to kick this infestation. Not sure how to calk thousands of these tiny tiny things. Maybe the info will tell me. Other than my calcium testing 640

and Rich finding my alk way low, everything else looks awesome. Go figure. Thanks again.

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:47 pm

Been there , done that on the ca/alk balance more times than I should say

I'll do a little looking around and see if I can find any info on the hydroids, I do remember reading they can sting your corals and multiply pretty bad if you have high-nutrient water.. but sorry I don't know much else... I'm sure there has got to be more information on them and how to get rid of them, I'll post if I find something good.

Hope you get it straightened out

Post by **snoopdog** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:17 am

They normally only stay around for a few weeks.

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:12 am

Looks like there is something you can use to rid them .. It is Panacur - Active ingredient fenbendazole, which is used for deworming.

info:
http://www.syngnathid.org/ubbthreads/sh ... t=all&vc=1

Ok, that is no good "This is not safe for most inverts or Caulerpa. Any live coral that you may have needs to be removed."

Hopefully like Snoop said, they'll go away on their own.