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Posted: July 29 2008 at 4:57pm |
Hello everyone I am new to the forum and have to say I am very impressed and I plan on joining the Wasatch Marine Society! Anyway I am rather new to hobby and I have a 30 gallon tank with a goby, clown fish, and bleny and three or four corals. I bought the tank six months ago and it had been established for three years. I have noticed a little bug type thing popping up everywhere that resembles what a dog leaves on the neighboors lawn. It is reddish brown and they are everywhere. Any hints on what it could be?
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 5:01pm |
Bristleworm or flatworms is my best guess without a picture.  
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 5:14pm |
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I will take a pic tonight of it.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 5:15pm |
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It literally looks like a pile of dog poop with a point sticking up and it attached to rock, filters and snails.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 5:18pm |
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Sounds like flatworms to me.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 5:59pm |
I know exactly what you are talking about... and I have no idea what they are. But I'm sure they are good. I get them in my tanks until I add fish. Large fish seem to wipe them out. I'll see if I can get a pic of any in my tank.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 6:08pm |
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So, it really looks like Dog S*$T?!
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 6:50pm |
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yeah looks just like it. I stopped by fish 4 u and they told me it was indeed flatworms.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 6:59pm |
its prob a small feather duster i have them in my tank and thats what they look like. if i was at home i could get a pic for you but alas i am at work :P
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 7:18pm |
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I was thinking a feather duster as well.Flat worms look like coral line specs or small specks of algae. A pic would help allot
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 7:36pm |
From what you said, I believe it is a snail.
Touch it with something and discover if it is a hard rough spiral that rises in a short vertical end. If so, that is the calcium tube home of a Vermitid Snail. Watch for it during feeding time. It sends up a mucous net to catch food and then pulls it back to it's mouth. Small ones can proliferate and large ones are fun to watch. The larger variety can be the diameter of a pencil.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 7:52pm |
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That's what I was thinking Mark.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 8:01pm |
Mark,
I think you nailed it. When I fed my fish they did have mucas type of catcher so is it a bad thing to have these in the tank?
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 9:32pm |
 utahquailguy wrote:
Mark,
I think you nailed it. When I fed my fish they did have mucas type of catcher so is it a bad thing to have these in the tank?
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No! They are good at cleaning up the detritis left floating after the fish are finished eating.
When it comes to little critters in the tank there are very few that most advanced aquarists believe to be bad. A few of the bad would be red bugs that live on SPS, Red Planaria flatworms (they tend to proliferate into plague proportions), pest amenmonies such as Aptasia and Manjanos, and probably a few others.
99% of the "small" life in your tank is not only good, but a sign of a healthy tank.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 9:49pm |
Thanks Will I wont worry about them anymore.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 10:01pm |
I agree with Mark. It sounds like a vermetid.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 10:07pm |
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 10:11pm |
Adam Blundell wrote:
I know exactly what you are talking about... and I have no idea what they are.
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"So, Just right in half? I have a very large one, Like 4" that I would like to frag, as well as a few smaller ones"
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 10:24pm |
Here is an article from ReefKeeping.com about Vermetids: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php-Rocks
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 10:36pm |
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Heys guys, In that pic i posted, What can you tell me about that goby, except that it is a highfin goby?
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