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03-11-2008, 07:11 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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|  what is this thing??????
ok, so i found this worm like thing with tiny legs coming out of it about an inch long and laying eggs like theres no tomorrow. what is it. the eggs are everywhere, and the babys are even more everywhere!!! they are all over mu puffer, it looks like ick, but it just showed up today and fast, only the puffer, tank, glass, and swimming around???? good or bad?? the only thing i added was the toadstool and finger leather, the tank they came from was clean and had alot of pods, are these pods???? GEDC0023 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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03-12-2008, 05:56 AM
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Weird. Can you get a better picture? I can't tell what I'm supposed to be looking at? | |
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03-12-2008, 07:51 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
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The thing under the sunction cup, the worm thing. The little white things a little further down I think are the eggs | |
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03-12-2008, 08:38 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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The worm thing looks like it MAY be a spaghetti worm but I'm not positive. Have you actually seen it laying the "eggs" or do you just assume that that's what they are?
Here's some pics of spaghetti worms to use as a reference:    | |
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03-12-2008, 09:46 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
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I dont think that what it is. The eggs are coming out of it (I think they are eggs..) and then there are a TON of little white things swimming around my tank. | |
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03-12-2008, 09:47 AM
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Ew....making me itchy  Could be eggs, could be poop. Hard to tell w/o a better picture I'm afraid  | |
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03-12-2008, 10:40 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
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The reason I think they are eggs is because the sudden increase in little white things swimming eeverywhere in my tank, and all of a sudden my star fish is really active I think its eating them and the Clowns are eating them too. Do you think I should pull the big worm out?? | |
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03-12-2008, 11:14 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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IMO if it cant be IDed Id toss it, or at least get it out and into a cup of tank water for the time being till it is given a proper ID, I tossed two small bristleworms that came in with my coral because I couldnt find anything with the coloration they had on the web...the fish should mow up the babies pretty quickly, my two clowns ate every pod on my glass(about 100 one day, none the next)
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03-12-2008, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Executivelevel  The reason I think they are eggs is because the sudden increase in little white things swimming eeverywhere in my tank, and all of a sudden my star fish is really active I think its eating them and the Clowns are eating them too. Do you think I should pull the big worm out?? | Can you describe the little white swimming things? | |
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03-12-2008, 12:09 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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they just look like little white specs flyin all over the place. the worm looks like it could be a very small spahgetti worm maybe. i dont know though. | |
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