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salt addict 
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 Topic: Clam worms! bad?or not so much?
Posted: November 26 2013 at 10:43pm |
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Some thing has been eating my snails for years,and my clam died ,after a few years i spotted what looks to be a " clam worm" one night , its about four inches long, what should i do if anything? i read on the www that some people think there harmless scavangers that have got a bad rap, any thoughts?
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 5:39am |
Sounds like a polyclad flatworm, they prey on snails and clams. I had one that ate every snail in my tank, had to tear the tank half apart to catch it. Here is a pic  Did it look like this?
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 7:16am |
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Oh yeah, polyclad clam worms are horrid... I've found a few over the years. Yay for quarantine.
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 8:01am |
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...technical issues...
Edited by ReefdUp - November 27 2013 at 8:03am
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 6:01pm |
thats pretty ugly,but not what i saw in my tank, it look more like a millipede red on one end and then kinda a tan color with lots of legs, i found a pic on the wikipedia that looked almost exactly like it ,it called it a common clam worm
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 6:10pm |
I wouldn't trust what all you find on Wikipedia...or that that's what you have. Are you sure what you found wasn't just a large bristleworm (harmless scavenger)? I looked around for what you said was a "common clam worm" on Wikipedia, and from what I could find, most of those species aren't in typical coral-collecting areas. Here's a link to some of the oddball worms I've found in my tanks over the years (found many, many more than this): http://www.reefdup.com/2012/01/15/invertebrates-worms/
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 6:32pm |
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Its so hard to trust info on the net, thats why i decided to ask here,way better advice on utah reefs, thanks for the help, i appreciate it a bunch!
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Posted: November 27 2013 at 6:33pm |
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also check out my thread on leds, id love your thoughts on that also plzzz, if you get a second
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 8:00am |
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We are so fortunate to have Nikki in our club. She has a knack for dealing with pests.
Mahalo nui loa (Thank you very much)
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