New Rock, more hitch hikers..

[chrisnif]

Okay, got a big handful of chaeto and 5 pounds of "rubble" rock at my LFS today, awesome deal paying $4 for it all. Some of the bigger pieces of rubble were actually baseball size and were big enough for my DT being I'm only working with 5 gallons. To make a long story short I have a rock that is actually a dead coral skeleton looks like zoos but those are not hard so i dunno, round craters anyway mixed in there are about 4-5 of the tube snails that spit out the "co

ebs" I forget the name but I know from reading here that's what they are, I just cant remember (or find references) if i should remove them and if so how?

 

[cranberry]

Vermatid snail... you can crack them off or cover them with putty or squirt them with concentrated kalk or calcium.

 

[chrisnif]

Thanks Cranberry,
I found a little tiny aiptasia in my sump, which means I probably have a few more in there on the new rocks. I'm going to do some digging. If i get the infected rocks out how long will aiptasia live out of the water, or should i boil the rock? I am not too concerned about keeping the rock alive, it'll gte alive again quickly enough, I just want to make sure I dont have an aiptasia outbreak Maybe i should put my pepermint shrimp down there for a week or so?

 

[cranberry]

Totally put the pep down there. Don't boil your rock. You have many more years in this hobby and will run into many more appies. You can't boil rock everytime and it's really not that easy to reestablished well colonized rock like it had been before.
I had appies in one of more scorp tanks that I would zap because of the tank's inhabitants, so we got a bristletail filefish and he really took care of business.

 

[chrisnif]

For this one I got out the chisel and removed the offending piece of rock (and also took care of those V. snails). When i broke the rock out pops a little tiny thing that looked like a shrimp or some sort. Was about > < that big (the space) literally. When i put it back in the water it swam almost the way a mantis does, but it was gray and so tiny i doubt it was a mantis. I'll probably never see it again, but any idea what it might have been?