Help! Please

Hi my names Dave im from Barnsley and im new to marine fish keeping.I dont know if iv got this post in the right forum but im wondering if you can help me in identifying this thing in my tank, and how to get rid of them as i am told their a nuisence.

I have an aqua one 380 aquarium which i bought as a complete set up for marine from my local fish store.Iv had numerous fish and coral keep dying and i dont know why and i was wondering if this brown thing living in my live rock was causing the problem,im doing between 20 to 25% water change every fortnight and doing all the regular water checks and there all fine.

I have taken a couple of photos to try and help.I also have quite a few of these little furry worms in my live rock too are they harmful?







Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

 

Those are aipstasia they can kill you corals but not your fish you can kill them with peppermint shrimp, or aipstasia X or Joes Juice. did you cycle your tank? what are your parameters and what lights are you running

 

what are your params exactly? just to make sure. that looks like aiptasia , joes juice or aiptasia-x will work to kill it. or inject the stalk with bioling water and it will release so you can take it out that way. dont just rip it out. the aiptasia wouldnt be killing things, theres something else going on. when was the tank setup?

 

They answered your aiptasia question well so I'm only going to deal with the bristleworm. They are harmless (unless you accidentally touch one while you're not wearing gloves).

 

All I can say is wow that's a big guy ! Are you spot feeding it ?? Hehe

 

joe's juice and apasia-X work well. if you can get your hands on a small syrnge you can inject with plain old lemon juice....i've found it very effective. its worked for me everytime, just don't inject to much as it can play with you PH and other params. They will shrivel and retract into the LR or whatever they are attached to. never tried Divott's idea of boiling water but it sounds like a good 1 as it won't add any chemicals or anything just water....might have to try it next time i find some aptasia also peppermint shrimp are hit and miss some eat aptasia and some wont....if they will eat them it's usually before they get to the size yours are at. i doubt peppermints will help rid what you have but might help control future breakouts.

 

never knew that! what happens when you touch a bristle worm?? i was re-arranging some rock and i came very close to a fatty...what would have happened??

 

It would have stung you and hurt! MY LFS owner has red welts and scars on his hands from touching too many bristle worms. So be careful!

 

Lol when I change filters and whatnot I pick out pods and bristle worms by hand >,< and have never been stung >,< .. course I could just have super " man " hands ;P

 

thanks for the fast response guys.sorry if i sound stupid but by parameters do you mean tank dimensions and whats in it exactly? if so its

Dimensions Tank: 38 W x 46 H x 25 D cm
Water Capacity: 34 L
Lighting: 1 x 11W PL lamps - aqua one sun/blue 11 watt pl
Powerhead: 400 L/hr
Filtration: 1 x Carbon Cartridge with Filter Wool + 1 x Purigen
Fish: 1 x Kuda Sea Horse 1 x Spotted Mandarin 1 x Cleaner Shrimp 1 x Yellow Watchman Goby 3 x Hermet Crabs 1 x Turbo Snail

Dead Fish: - 2 x Sea Horses 1 x Banded Pipefish 1 x Green Mandarin 1 x Large blue Starfish 1 x Medium red Starfish 1 x Common Clown Fish 3 x Turbo Snails 3 x Hermit Crabs

Coral - 1 x Sun Coral 3 x Green Mushroom Assorted Colony Polyps

Dead Coral:- 1 x Finger Leather 1 x Xenia elongata 1 x Fan Tube

Please note these were not all in the tank at the same time, iv just bought new fish and coral when either has died.