aquarium125g
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hello, i a 125 gallon tank with an 20 gallon algae filter and after 5 months of having it this little worws and small things appear, does any one knows what this is? is it good? or bad?
thanks
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What Are This Things
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aquarium125g
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hi
thank for the reply, the worm is kinda flat, pink and has hair on the sides,i have hundreds of them in my algae filter tank, but i dont know if i should remove them?
thank for the reply, the worm is kinda flat, pink and has hair on the sides,i have hundreds of them in my algae filter tank, but i dont know if i should remove them?
aquarium125g
Member
thanks guys am kind of new to this, i had my aquarium for over a year now, its a fish only tank but i want to make it a reef and i was worry that does worms will be problem, thanks again.
texasmetal
Active Member
It's the brown ones with red "hair" you have to worry about. They'll eat zoa's and other softies.
forcrz6
Member
Originally Posted by Shyfish
http:///forum/post/2947829
Hi,
It is hard to see but it looks like a bristleworm, a harmless usful scavenger
Quoted for truth.
I have these. It comes from over feeding or to many nutrients.
I have caught my Cleaner shrimp chomping on 1 of these, so I can't say for sure if he is trying to get rid of them, or if it died. But they do clean out the live rock pretty well.
they are ugly but serve a good purpose.
http:///forum/post/2947829
Hi,
It is hard to see but it looks like a bristleworm, a harmless usful scavenger
Quoted for truth.
I have these. It comes from over feeding or to many nutrients.
I have caught my Cleaner shrimp chomping on 1 of these, so I can't say for sure if he is trying to get rid of them, or if it died. But they do clean out the live rock pretty well.
they are ugly but serve a good purpose.
naclh2o nut
Member
When should they start showing up? Do they show up in all tanks? Read alot about them but still not sure if and when to start freaking the kids out.
forcrz6
Member
Originally Posted by NaClH2O Nut
http:///forum/post/2948478
When should they start showing up? Do they show up in all tanks? Read alot about them but still not sure if and when to start freaking the kids out.
Hard to say when they show/showed up. I truly believe it is from the Rock I got. I did not want to pay the big$ for the rock so I went 2nd rate. But hey who knows. I just pluck them out once in a while wit a pear of plastic grabbers I have.
http:///forum/post/2948478
When should they start showing up? Do they show up in all tanks? Read alot about them but still not sure if and when to start freaking the kids out.
Hard to say when they show/showed up. I truly believe it is from the Rock I got. I did not want to pay the big$ for the rock so I went 2nd rate. But hey who knows. I just pluck them out once in a while wit a pear of plastic grabbers I have.
texasmetal
Active Member
Originally Posted by forcrz6
http:///forum/post/2948489
Hard to say when they show/showed up. I truly believe it is from the Rock I got. I did not want to pay the big$ for the rock so I went 2nd rate. But hey who knows. I just pluck them out once in a while wit a pear of plastic grabbers I have.
Any good live rock is going to come with all kinds of organisms, including bristleworms.
http:///forum/post/2948489
Hard to say when they show/showed up. I truly believe it is from the Rock I got. I did not want to pay the big$ for the rock so I went 2nd rate. But hey who knows. I just pluck them out once in a while wit a pear of plastic grabbers I have.
Any good live rock is going to come with all kinds of organisms, including bristleworms.
snakeblitz33
Well-Known Member
I feel like bristle worms are very good scavangers, so be happy yah have em'!