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jnam
So I cant get a decent picture of this guys but they look like 2-3mm purple flatworms but i dont know I can see them and could probably draw them if that would help. I dont have a nice macro lense so the pics i take are very blurry. They seem to crawl on my zoos and it pisses the zoos off. I cant tell if they are eating them but the zoos i can see them on wont open... Any suggestions. This is in the 3 gallon so the 10 or so i can see is like a freaking plague. The leave the rics and the shrooms alone. Just the zoos. The only recent addition is a rock with some little zoos i got from another reefer here on NR.

Maybe if you could show me what you have as far as pests maybe i can ID mine. I went through the zoa pest sticky on here and didnt see them also on the other HH pests sectiona and at zoaID.com I did some googling but nothing really came up.
Phyto4life
Does it look like this?

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...p;#entry2459136
organism
Put them into a cup with tank water and shake them up until some fly off, it should be easier to take a picture of them then if you have a white paper on the bottom of the glass. If they're orange then probably just plain flatworms, those do tend to piss off zoanthids colonies when they get a little out of control...
jnam
Ill give it a try, but there are visible to me and completely purple the arent chittons i dont think because the seem to be squishy not hard. at least they move as if the were soft like a flatworm. The Zoos have opened back up but thes buggs are in lots of places...

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