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kreblak
05-09-2003, 9:29 PM
If the answers to my following question are that I have yet another parasite, I may just fill the tank with Clorox and start from scratch. Of course I'm kidding, but here's my problem:

I have been fighting an Ich outbreak for the last couple of weeks. Today, I noticed around eight small, coiled, white, worm looking thingies on my glass. They are pretty evenly spread across the 4 tank walls.

They are tiny (about 1 or 2 mm in diameter when coiled) and appear to have some sort of circle in the very center. They appear too large to be an Ich cyst, plus they are coiled up. They don't appear to be any kind of worm I've ever read about, either.

The only recent additions to the tank are two turbo snails, making a total of four. Did one of my snails reproduce? Are these snail larvae attached to my glass? Does anyone even know what the heck snail larvae look like?

MonoSebaelover
05-09-2003, 11:32 PM
They are more than likely sm Coco Worms. Coco worms have a hard white coiled skeleton kinda like a Feather Duster but is coiled, hard, white, and small. On one end you should be able to see feathers (generally red). It is a worm and is not ich or anything else ya listed. Coco worms come from the live rock.

kreblak
05-10-2003, 10:02 AM
Are they good, bad, or just ambivilant hitchhikers? Whay have they taken so long to show up in my tank? The LR has been in the tank for quite some time, and this is the first I'm seeing of them.

VoodooChild
05-10-2003, 4:38 PM
This doesn't help much with the coco worm question, but I'm still finding new stuff after nearly two months of my live rock. I'm sure there's all sorts of larvae and eggs inside that just needed to hatch and come out. The other night I found a 3.5" bristleworm that I'd never seen before!

kreblak
05-11-2003, 1:17 PM
I was just shocked to see them after all that friggin Ich. I pretty much thought that LR has shown me everything it had, and low and behold, coco worms. They're cool with me, as long as they don't kill fish;)

OrionGirl
05-11-2003, 7:49 PM
Good to ambivalent. They leave the little white tubes everywhere, but don't do anything bad to the fish or the tanks.