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09/17/2003, 01:34 PM
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Yucky Nasty Worms!!!!!!
I am full of questions today wow. Here is another one!! I have some rocks in a hospital tank cuz they have nasty long flat white worms with a TON of med. sized legs. We tried to grab it with a twezzers when it was hagging out but it is too quick. I want to know what it is and how to get rid of it. I love my rocks and I don't want to get rid of them unless I have to. I would love to attack a picture but I can't get a good one. It looks like a flat white long milipead with a ton more legs. You guys have helped so much I just can't help not to ask questions =0) I sound like I shouldn't have a tank lol
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09/17/2003, 01:56 PM
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Let them be. They are just bristelworms. Will help your tank.
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09/17/2003, 02:15 PM
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DONT ATTACK THE PICTURE, its not going to help with those darned worms.
 
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09/17/2003, 04:27 PM
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I have another question about icky nasty worms! The spider ones do they live in the live rock. They are the pink ones with lots of legs right? do they come out and hang around so you can see them or do they hide? How do you get rid of those guys? I have my rock that I want to put into my 40 gal but I am too chicken because I don't want things to start kicking the bucket like they did in my 30 gal.
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09/17/2003, 04:33 PM
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Most of the nasty yucky stuff has a use in the aquarium. Mostly, they feed on the fish poop and break it down.
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09/17/2003, 04:34 PM
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Bristelworms come out usually at night to clean up the tank. They eat uneaten food, dead fish, dead snails, dead stuff or basically anything. You can get rid of them if you want by taking some mysis shrimp or other shrimp and putting an excess amount in. Then when they come out nab them with tweasers. They can be hard to catch and they can sting you.
I took out my LR with them in it and dipped it in a icewater bath and froze em out. Not recommended, but it worked. All my other life on the rock died but came back. My wife said I HAD to get rid of the worms.
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09/17/2003, 04:41 PM
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Someone once told me that spider worms attacked fish and killed them so that is why I am so hesitant to put the rocks back in my new tank!
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09/17/2003, 04:55 PM
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They attack and eat dead fish, poop and other detritus (what exactly is "other detritus" anyway... we've covred bodies and poop already in this example...)
Bristleworms are your friends, BUT should you still not want them then send them to me. I may have the only tank in the states without bristleworms that wants to have them. Grass is always greener I suppose...
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09/17/2003, 05:06 PM
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I once was on RC one late night and heard a person say they left their LR out for about 15mintues to eliminate the worms and hitchhikckers from going into his tank!
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09/17/2003, 07:35 PM
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Quote:
there you go, clear example!
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#13
09/17/2003, 11:10 PM
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They wont hurt anything.
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09/18/2003, 12:10 AM
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harmless i guess.... had a brown worm at the size of abt 4 inch... scared the hell outta me... managed to catch it and get rid of it thankfully... seems to me that my LR has lotsa "freebies" found a crab just the other day too.. LOL
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