pest control

HI Guys, I have been scouring the web, asking LFS owners and everyone about getting Bumblebee Snails in Australia and i cannot find them any where. Is anyone on here that knows where we can get them from being in AUS? Many thanks

Hello I’ve been wanting a dwarf seahorse tank for about a year now but I’ve been having trouble with pests, specifically these small jellyfish and anemones, even taking down my last tank and starting over again because of them though I’ve already delt with the anemones, the jellyfish occupation...

Found these worms in high concentrations in my coral tanks - not sure what they could be and need an ID! Thanks! Not sure if it’s a type of flatworm? Finding them on tank sides and other surfaces but they don’t seem to be on the corals. They move quickly as well - hopefully the attached video...

i have an 80 gallon (90cm x 60cm x 60cm) with a flasher wrasse, royal gramma, algae blenny and kliens butterfly. i will be returning the butterfly as it has been nipping at my sps. is there a magical fish that will eat aptasia, flatworms and nudibrachs? i don’t really want a halichoeres (sp?)...

Hello, Ive been reading forum discussions here on Reef2reef and some other forums for many years, and something that always cross my mind is when i read posts about Cleaner shrimps and how they are not effective and only there for us to watch on and entertain us, which i totally dissagree with...

I am upgrading to a new tank and know the tank was broke down due to a vermetid snail infestation that got way out of hand… I’ve removed all remnants but and will take a scrub brush to overflow, but I’m sure there are some remnants in the hard tubing that is glued and irreplaceable. is there...

Hello everyone, I hope this message finds you well. Attached is an image (as close up as I could get of a new arthropod in my system. I believe it is an unwanted sea spider. I have only noticed them on glass and back panel of my AIO system. There are a few dozen at this point and i only...

I’ve had a heavy digitate hydroids infestation for about a year now. Seemed to be the more ‘mild’ kind as only one type of zoa seemed a little bothered by contact. I cut back on feeding, stopped broadcast feeding, added Halloween hermits, but saw no population reductions. 3 days ago, I was at...

I've got an asterina problem that are munching on my zoas. If you are in Palm Beach county and you have a single Harlequin shrimp I can "rent" out for a few months, that'd be great. I'd buy it upfront and return it back to you in a few months for a small refund, or find a new buyer if you do...

Here is A Very Inefficient Method of Treating Aiptaisa I discovered a few weeks ago on accident… for anyone who is curious: 1. Submerge infested rock within sand 2. Wait for Aiptasia to detach from submerged rock and crawl towards the surface of the sandbed 3. Scoop up the Aiptasia As this...

Hello Reefers, I was away for the first time for a little over a week from my tank and I have come home to some challenges. My tank has been overrun with hair algae and from what I think is Aiptaisa. If it's not please let me know and what are the remedies that have worked for you? I think it's...

Wassup Reefers, Cleaning my sump today and found this little thing on my skimmer. I have only seen one once before in my tank a hand full of months ago and it was between a frag shelf and the glass. (which I got rid of) It looks almost like a vein or root that definitely gets larger over time...

What are your thoughts on purging mobile pests from live rock with hypersaline water? Explanation from KP Aquatics: "(Optional Step) Undesired critters (we really don’t like the word unwanted pests as every creature has a purpose in life) can be removed by submerging the live rock into a...

I was given someone’s setup to take care of consisting of a couple live rocks, 2 clowns and a frogspawn coral, I noticed a good handful of small aptasia on one of the rocks so have removed it and boiled it and it’s currently sat out in the sun so hoping it’s done the trick! I do appreciate it...

Hey guys, I’m quite new to corals in general and was given these frags by a friend, they’ve been fine for the first 2-3 weeks. However, I have just noticed these long threads about half an inch with a white ball on the end of them. I have tried to take some photos, I hope they are clear enough...

I got some secondhand corals and I’m trying to clean them up. Are the white tubes anything to worry about? I know the brown tubes are feather worms. Backstory: Yesterday I bought a tank and I didn’t realize it still had fish and corals in it. The tank was nasty and very under maintained. I...

Alright, hopefully the video provided a bit of a light-hearted intro to a not-so-light-hearted topic of discussion....Dinoflagellates!! I know this topic has been beaten to death, however since I gather that it is probably the #1 discouragement and source of abuse for those unlucky souls who...

Losing sleep sucks, especially if your tank causes it. You look into your reef tank, your worse fear is....? For me, it’s when I am 2 weeks without seeing a montipora eating nudibranch just eating away in my QT. ::gets out dip bucket and picks clean 10 frags::

Hello Everyone-- I'm hoping I can get some help in identifying and getting rid of an annoying pest in my tank. I think these are dinos but would like to confirm. Been battling this for a year now. First it started out as snot on my rockwork but that's now cleared up after significant effort...

Hey guys, I’ve had these small zoas for a couple of weeks in my new tank. They’ve been dipped with “the dip” by fauna marin and then inserted in the aquarium. After a day, they started thriving and some polyps doubled already in size. However, its been a few days since many polyps haven’t...

I was topping off my tank and noticed these little white specs crawling all over the glass. Not sure if they are good or bad, please help identify and share treatment plans if needed. Would be much appreciated thank you!

One last question. I had a couple of things growing on my euphyllia coral stems. Also some fishing line sized worm looking pests on my live rock that I took a polyp off of. Are these pests to be worried about? Thoughts? I really need some input, thanks!

So I just got some frags today from a seller who has flatworms. Excellent guy, he dipped the frags for me and did a flatworm XIT dip along with his regular coral dip while we talked. I further inspected the frags before adding them to the tank and couldn’t see anything on them (they’re small zoa...

I added a small frag of encrusting Green Star Polyps and gave it its own rock island. Fast forward a year, and it's grown so much that it stretched over the sand and finally found my main rock work. I was too slow in stopping it, and it's now growing up towards my other corals. Last night I...

I was wondering what people with bare bottom tanks do for pest control since Halichores wrasses are out of the question. I know you can use Lined Wrasses but I don’t want that much aggression.