- Location
- Brooklyn / CNY
This is how the story goes. In the passed couple of years, I notice my zoos weren?t doing so well. I was slowly losing more and more of them, until most of my zoos collections were gone. Then I notice something was nipping at my SPSs. At first, I thought may be my pair of Watanabe Angels got hungry and had taken a few bites at the SPSs. The damage weren?t so bad so I just let it be.
In this passed year, I added a few of Aussie Acans and Ducans. At first they were doing great, until one day I notice they didn?t look right. Something was nipping or eating them just like my SPSs. I thought to myself, I would hate to get rid of my Watanabes. But I never actually saw them nipping at the corals in person. The damage took place between the time when the lights went off (12:20am) and when I got up (8:00am). In hopes of trying to get them to stop tasting my corals, I started to clip some seaweed for them every night after the lights went off. Things got better for about half a year, then the coral nipping started again and really hinder the growth of my corals. Since I never did catch my Watanabes in the act, I decided to took some time lapsed video to see what really happen when the lights were off.
The video did proof my Watanabes innocents, and showed me who the real villain is. The A-hole was this Eunice worm. It not only ate the seaweed but also munch on my corals! :irked: It?s hide out was in a base rock in the middle of the tank? To get to it, that would mean I had to remove most of the top rocks with my SPSs on them... So I put the Eunice worm hunt off for a couple of months, since I hate to tear down much of the SPS tank and put everything back in again.
Fast forward to today, while I was doing my water change. I accidentally knocked off a small colony of SPS. :banghead: And there was no way I could reach where it had landed? So I might as well get that coral eating A-hole out of my tank. The worm was a lot bigger than I thought and really freak me out when I picked its rock up. The rock has a lot of large openings and the worm curled right back into the large cave after I took the rock up. I used an aquascaping tong to get it out. It wasn?t so hard to get him out because of its size but I did break it off into three pieces in process.
Here some pics: It measured at least 3 1/2 feet long!!! And 1 inch wide!!! :bigeyes::dead1:
Taking the rocks out wasn?t nearly as bad as putting them back in... And I had to re-glued most of my corals. But it was well worth knowing the worm is out of my tank! :sleeping:
In this passed year, I added a few of Aussie Acans and Ducans. At first they were doing great, until one day I notice they didn?t look right. Something was nipping or eating them just like my SPSs. I thought to myself, I would hate to get rid of my Watanabes. But I never actually saw them nipping at the corals in person. The damage took place between the time when the lights went off (12:20am) and when I got up (8:00am). In hopes of trying to get them to stop tasting my corals, I started to clip some seaweed for them every night after the lights went off. Things got better for about half a year, then the coral nipping started again and really hinder the growth of my corals. Since I never did catch my Watanabes in the act, I decided to took some time lapsed video to see what really happen when the lights were off.
The video did proof my Watanabes innocents, and showed me who the real villain is. The A-hole was this Eunice worm. It not only ate the seaweed but also munch on my corals! :irked: It?s hide out was in a base rock in the middle of the tank? To get to it, that would mean I had to remove most of the top rocks with my SPSs on them... So I put the Eunice worm hunt off for a couple of months, since I hate to tear down much of the SPS tank and put everything back in again.
Fast forward to today, while I was doing my water change. I accidentally knocked off a small colony of SPS. :banghead: And there was no way I could reach where it had landed? So I might as well get that coral eating A-hole out of my tank. The worm was a lot bigger than I thought and really freak me out when I picked its rock up. The rock has a lot of large openings and the worm curled right back into the large cave after I took the rock up. I used an aquascaping tong to get it out. It wasn?t so hard to get him out because of its size but I did break it off into three pieces in process.
Here some pics: It measured at least 3 1/2 feet long!!! And 1 inch wide!!! :bigeyes::dead1:
Taking the rocks out wasn?t nearly as bad as putting them back in... And I had to re-glued most of my corals. But it was well worth knowing the worm is out of my tank! :sleeping:
