Anyone Know What These Little Tubes Are?

[Themaddhatter]

They're all over the rockwork and spreading.

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[heath]

no idea but, I will be watching, I have them too..they eventually turn hard...

 

[Nighthawk26]

The beginning of the end. Tear it all down, say a prayer, and start again.

Kidding! I have no clue, but also following. I have something SIMILAR, but I don't think the same on just 1 rock I will likely start a similar post once I have paid closer attention to it to offer a little more background on it.

 

[Shooter000]

Vermetidea( vermetid snails)

 

[Shooter000]

They create a mucous web that they send into the water coloumn, get enough of them and they with start to harm Stoney corals

 

[chrisstevens]

i have them all over my tank, they are vermetid snails, they are a PITA.

 

[Shooter000]

Only way to get rid of them is to cook the rock and start over...

 

[Sewerat]

What temperature and time frame does it take to cook vermeil snails? What size fork do I use? Garlic butter glaze?


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[MrHermit85]

I have them too. Looks pretty bad after a water change as sand gets stuck in their webs and it looks like Halloween lol. Haven't noticed it bothering anything yet. I only have a few sps though.

 

[Shooter000]

Best way to get rid of them is fill there tube with super glue, or when they are out producing there web, take your bone cutters and cut as far down and as fast as you can

 

[AdInfinitum]

My Copperband wiped them out of my tank.

 

[zoomster]

I have them as well. Never bothered anything in my tank.
But just in case, since I am really getting into the world of SPS now, I should get a CBB as future insurance?

 

[ThePaliga]

+1 vermetid snails... Had a bunch of them, but then I got a yellow coris wrasse and he munched them all up!

 

[Themaddhatter]

I pretty much found out the same. They're filter feeders and use the mucous to grab food and pull it back. Apparently Coris wrasse, copperbands, and even racoon butterflyfish will eat them. Also emerald crabs but apparently they'll develop a real taste for meat after they're done with these guys.
I have a melanarus wrasse already, so I'm not sure if the Coris will work.

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[mmatt]

I think those are actually feather dusters. The little white tubes. Not vermetid snail. These are vermetid snail. If

http://thefragtank.ca/community/threads/i-found-this-guy-under-my-frog-spawn.17325/

 

[MiniMoose]

I just snap them off when they get too long lol but I think my file fish eats them he definitely doesn't eat aiptaisa copperband hunting lol

 

[reef keeper]

Feed a bit less. Snap the tubes or crush them. I had those pretty bad. They got killed off by wrasse. They will irritate your coral eventually. Can also jam a pink or needle in there too. Get rid of em.

 

[scubasteve]

my seahorse tank is full of them but next to none in my reef tank. guess those emeralds do like then since i have no butterfly or wrasses.