What are these

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  1. antonym518

    antonym518 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    What are these living one my shroom and what eats them.
     

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  3. R34dawn

    R34dawn Ocellaris Clown

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    the 1st. pic you have a poker dot mushroom, below it some star pollyps and some feather worms, on the 2nd different kind of mushroom and some zoa's and a turbo snail
     
  4. antonym518

    antonym518 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    ha ha. But really what are those ring type worms? living on the shrooms
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    antonym518 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    actually its a asterea and daisy polyps
     
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    antonym518 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    deepbluesea Astrea Snail

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    those look like planaria flat worms to me and nothing eats them contrary to all you will hear there verry toxic even more than britny spears.you need some flatworm exit by salifert and be verry carefull to follow the directions it looks like you have a bad infestation,hope this helps.
     
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  9. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    Agreed, flatworms. Here are some ways to get rid of them;
    1. It is siad that a sixline wrasse will eat them, but the trick to that is you have to under feed it which is highly impossible unless he's the only fish in the tank.
    2. I have also used a small turkey baster and take them off one by one( I know )
    3. Salifert's Flat worm exit( I havent used that yet)
    4. Doing a FW dip for 1-5 min.s
    5. There might be a "old school" method, but I dont know of any. Might want to PM Tangster. Luna
     
  10. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    There is also some green bubble algae in the first picture. Can become a nuisance. Best to get it taken care of right away. Simply just a FYI.
     
  11. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    I can't see flatworms in either picture. Is this like one of those "Magic Eye" things because I can never see the darned sailboat in those things either :D
     
  12. antonym518

    antonym518 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    They are bad, six line doesn;t touch them. Maybe the turkey baster