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thanks for the advice. I am a newbie and do not have the tool to cut the plug, but i did use scissor to cut off all the "wires".. not sure if it works...Looks like an invasive tube snail cluster. They come in many sizes and those have needle-like tubes that stab and bleed you when you bump into them, ime.
Remove the coral from the plug, glue them onto another fresh rock or plug and toss those, imo.
While may be tube worms, which you can scrape off in a small container of tank water, pics best under white lighting with coral submergedjust got some new corals today and one of them has these wire-like stuffs. Are these worms or something?
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cutting the tube in have or just the tops wont do it. You have to crush them entirely, including the base or super glue over the openings of each tube to make sure they are dead. If you dont get them they will multiply all over and give you a much worse problem as these look to be the colonial and fast spreading type of vermetid.thanks for the advice. I am a newbie and do not have the tool to cut the plug, but i did use scissor to cut off all the "wires".. not sure if it works...
As mentioned earlier, Take a paring knife and scrape off the remainder. It takes less than a minute and worth itthanks for the advice. I am a newbie and do not have the tool to cut the plug, but i did use scissor to cut off all the "wires".. not sure if it works...
I took advice...removed the rock from the plug and found an aiptasia hiding there too. Lucky me.As mentioned earlier, Take a paring knife and scrape off the remainder. It takes less than a minute and worth it
I got it from online source `https://reefloungecoral.com/`. This is the first time I ordered corals from online. and surprisingly, not only it has the vermetid snails but also aiptasia. I used my finger nail to break out the little rock which has the tubes imbedded. It looks clean right now. But not 100% sure if I got all of them.cutting the tube in have or just the tops wont do it. You have to crush them entirely, including the base or super glue over the openings of each tube to make sure they are dead. If you dont get them they will multiply all over and give you a much worse problem as these look to be the colonial and fast spreading type of vermetid.
If not (and I know it sucks to do) but just chuck the frag plug entirely. This will depend on the zoa frag cost but most around me go for $10-$30 for a frag plug with multiple polyps. Did you get this from lfs or and online source?
I highly doubt that they will do any refund since they did not even reply my email from yesterday when I asked for that tube thing.I would write them a message asking what happened and if they would even give some money back because of the pests. In no way should an online coral shop be selling anything with that much vermetids or aiptasia on it. It shows that they both are running pretty pesk ridden tanks as well as not checking the frags before they send them out. Something like this can be expected of coral shops that just import corals, chop them up and sell them out (many lfs will do this) but not high end coral retailers
do not order online...