Tentacles Taking Over My Aquarium

zortru
  • #1
Hello

A while ago I posted about this tentacle in my aquarium, someone told me that it was a spaghettI worm, but now they are all over the place and I want to get rid of them, any help is welcome.
I made a video with them
tks
Thales Manarin
 

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grantm91
  • #2
Wow !!! NART what would you do when they are this bad ?
 

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Nart
  • #3
Whoa..... that's a lot. They don't harm anything and help clean up left-over food, but watching that gave me the goosebumps lol.
Looks like you have an over nutrient issue in the tank thus the reason they keep multiplying and taking over the tank.

Tell us more about your tank.
Size of tank, fishes, corals, thickness of sand bed, etc...

How often do you maintenance/change water and how much?

Do you test your Nitrates/Phosphates? If so, what are the numbers?
Do you have issues with any algae?
How often do you feed? what do you feed and how much?
 
LikeFishInABarrel
  • #4
dude, that's a lot of spaghettI worms. if you feel the need to get rid of them just boil the rocks, but they're completely harmless
 
Nart
  • #5
Just a note - if you ever need to boil rocks, please research the proper safety guides before doing so and make sure the place is well ventilated. Boiling live rocks can be very very dangerous.
 
TwoHedWlf
  • #6
dude, that's a lot of spaghettI worms. if you feel the need to get rid of them just boil the rocks, but they're completely harmless
That's one of the things I miss now that I don't have my reef tank.

In a marine tank: Hey, I found this animal in my tank. Everyone: Neat!

Freshwater tank: Hey, I found this animal in my tank. OMG YOU HAVE TO TEAR APART YOUR TANK AND BLEACH EVERYTHING AND MURDER THEM ALL! But they're harmlesSHUTUPANDSTARTMURDERING!
 

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Nart
  • #7
TwoHedWlf hahahahahaha.... AHHHH NEMATODES! BURN THE TANK!
 
zortru
  • Thread Starter
  • #8
well thanks for all the answers

I'm from Brazil so I use the metric system, hope that is ok
230 liters
1 Parachanthurus(I know my tank is small for this one but my father is crazy about it) 2 clown fish 1 yellow tang 1 gramma 1 six line wrasse 1, I have a shrimp that I couldn't find the English name, but the translation from Portuguese would be clown shrimp, its this one
For corals I have like 10 species, I have this picture of the tank
The sand is around 2mm
PH: 8,1
Alkalinity: 7,5
Ammonia: 0
Phosphate: 0,1 mg/l
nitrate: 0
calcium 400ppm
magnesium: 1100 ppm
density 1,024 g/ml

I change 30% of my water every month, I have a problem with brown algae that grows ever time I change the water, but they last 1-2 weeks, I've been told that is because the water we have here. For food, I give the fish Marine Flakes from Tetra, it's almost impossible to get fresh food for them here, and once a week I give my anemone a piece of frozen shrimp.

I also had a freshwater tank years ago, here where I live it's way easier to take care of a freshwater one, had it for 8 years and never had a single problem with unwanted stuff in the water. Just out of curiosity I don't have it anymore because I had a discus fish (I guess that's the English name) that was all blue and I loved him, but after 7 years with me he had a liver diseases and we couldn't save them, so now I choose a reef tank so I could learn new stuff.

I'm really thankfull for all the help
 
California L33
  • #9
I think your aquarium is channeling H. P. Lovecraft .
 
zortru
  • Thread Starter
  • #10
I think your aquarium is channeling H. P. Lovecraft .
I might go to a psychiatrist to check if I'm still sane hahahahahahahaha
 

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Nart
  • #11
Yeah. Looks like you have some improper fish stocking issues. Which might lead into the amount of flakes you give your fishes and with the uneaten portion flying everywhere it can easily get stuck in between the rocks and sand bed. Thus providing a food source for the spaghettI worm to populate.

I would recommend you buy some more shrimp and chop it up to little pieces and feed that instead of flakes until the spaghettI worm and algae dies down. Feed no more than what you fishes can consume in like 1-2 minutes.

You might not have any Nitrate readings due to the algae consuming faster than you can test for.

Your alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium seems a little low. You might want to raise your water changes to twice of even 3 times a month till your parameters are back up. Unless you have the supplements to dose.

If you think your water source is bad... you might not be able to solve your algae issue till you can get 0 TDS water. Either you buy from a grocery store, fish store, or buy your own RODI unit.
 
zortru
  • Thread Starter
  • #12
ok, I'll do all those things
just one thing concerns me about giving the shrimp for the fish, someone told me that its bad for the yellow tang to eat this kind of food, is this wrong?
and again, thank you
 
zortru
  • Thread Starter
  • #13
just an update for those who helped me here

I bought a wrasse melanurus and he ate all of those worms, he took one month to do it and I can't see any more of them in the aquarium.
 

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