Worms attacking zoas!!! Help!!!

[ram man]

hi, it turns out the snail was not the only one harrasing my zoas! there are these worms that come out of the live rock and wave around, these seam to be irritating my zoanthids, how do i get rid of them? there are tons in my mantis tank and there are a few in my ten gallon! there is no way i could get something to eat them because of the mantis? how do i get rid of them?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

take a pic please. I have mini tubeworms making colonies everywhere and they bother my zoanthids so much i lost like 20 out of 23 on a single rock. It sucks...can't find info anywhere and they're just unkillable.

 

[ram man]

i have tubes and spagetti worms near the zoanthids... will the collony be lost?
they are definetly spagetti and tube worms.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

spagetti aren't nasty
i'll take a pic of the tubeworms to compare

 

[dbacksrat]

you can't just manually remove them? try using tweezers for some precision

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i tried...impossible...i scraped the rock almost completely, use pliers, use scissors...the problem is that the populaton is growing fast on other surfaces...it seems to bother only my zoanthids. I dunno what to do next...boiling water in a seringe ? Since they're filter feeders, i reduced greatly the feeding of my fishies.

 

[ram man]

these thing reprduce lie rabbits. i was able to crack one open and the little worm wiggle out and got choped up in the power head, i wish my mantis would eat them... he does eat the big ones though. will fish eat worms? i moved the big rock into the ten gallon and the poyps seem to be doing a little better from the light alone, the funny thing is it is only one type of zoanthid out of the three on the rock that gets irritated.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i don't think they would eat that...anyways they get into their hard tube when there's something going on...and they do it fast.
I got 2 colonies irritated. I'm starting to frag 'cause they really hate that.

 

[ram man]

to frag you have to cut polyps of of the rock with the mat still attached, right?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

yep...altough once i cut too high and it worked just fine

 

[dbacksrat]

It looks like your problem is nutrient export--Kahluazz do you still have the Coralife needle wheel skimmer? That coupled with water changes and a cut back on feeding should help. Ram, you should probably do a lot of water changes too, especially after feeding your mantis.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i already feed less...got 0 phos and nitrates....my water is sparkling now but it's still reproducing...wich is weird because they're not photo. Maybe they can catch just a little bit of leftovers and it's enough to go wild

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Looks like that ? those are pretty young, their tube aren't super hard

 

[ram man]

those looks like anemones. i moved them to the 10 gallon and are thriving.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

yep but they aren't anemones