losing my kenya tree corals

[shobby]

Something seems to be eating my tree corals. Nothing has seemed to change but something is eating the tops off of some of the corals. Have the same fish as always have been there, 1 clown, 1 hipa tang, 2 watchmen gobies and a pygmy angel. I had two feather duster that were fine one week and were totally destroyed the next. I have noticed several bristle worms lately, and I have quite a few star fish, the hitch hiker ones with the funky bodies, no set number of arms. What could be going on, what is getting at them. Help please......

 

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Originally Posted by shobby http:///forum/thread/384965/losing-my-kenya-tree-corals#post_3374160
Something seems to be eating my tree corals. Nothing has seemed to change but something is eating the tops off of some of the corals. Have the same fish as always have been there, 1 clown, 1 hipa tang, 2 watchmen gobies and a pygmy angel. I had two feather duster that were fine one week and were totally destroyed the next. I have noticed several bristle worms lately, and I have quite a few star fish, the hitch hiker ones with the funky bodies, no set number of arms. What could be going on, what is getting at them. Help please......

A bobbit worm may have matured enough to eat your corals. If you have moonlights, watch the tank and see where in the rocks it lives and remove that rock and dig him out..wear gloves, they are in the bristle worm family and I think they sting. Keep it in one piece or you will have more than 1 worm.
They look like centepedes but real long and thin.

 

[shobby]

what color are they compared to a bristle worm? Does an arrow crab eat them also?
Shelley

 

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Originally Posted by shobby http:///forum/thread/384965/losing-my-kenya-tree-corals#post_3374168
what color are they compared to a bristle worm? Does an arrow crab eat them also?
Shelley

They are grey and look like a centepede (see the picture?). A bristle worm is two toned in color. When I say in the family I mean they sting if you touch them. I'm sorry but I don't know anything about arrow crabs.

 

[shobby]

Alright, I do have one that appears to look like that, comes out a little bit from the rock and looks just like that, the others I have seen are grey and red tipped. If I have the bobbit worm, how do I get rid of it?
I did notice that the hipa tang moved to another area this morning, always slept behind the shrooms and this morning was completely on the other side of the aquarium, and the worm does reside on the side where the hipa usually sleeps. What now... Help please...
Shelley