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Tiniest worms ever and a weird snail


Lizbeth90

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Hi all I recently looked at my tank 2 hours in after the light had gone down. I saw some weird tiniest, very thin looked like the smallest worms ever in my sand and one was actually wiggling in the water. Should this be a concern? Or is this normal to find? I also found a snail that I did not place in my tank. It shell is like a “clam” shell flat in a way and it’s antennas were super long(longer than the snails I’m used to seeing) I hope my pictures work for identifying 

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What kind of coral are these?  I don’t know what terms to use to search by. The orange one is what I’m really concerned with because it is losing to the green weed stuff. 

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1 hour ago, Lizbeth90 said:

Hi all I recently looked at my tank 2 hours in after the light had gone down. I saw some weird tiniest, very thin looked like the smallest worms ever in my sand and one was actually wiggling in the water. Should this be a concern? Or is this normal to find? I also found a snail that I did not place in my tank. It shell is like a “clam” shell flat in a way and it’s antennas were super long(longer than the snails I’m used to seeing) I hope my pictures work for identifying 

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The snail is a stomatella.  Not sure on the worms. Need a much better close up macro shot to say.  If it has bristles of any sort then its most likely a reef safe bristleworm.  

27 minutes ago, Bob4449 said:

What kind of coral are these?  I don’t know what terms to use to search by. The orange one is what I’m really concerned with because it is losing to the green weed stuff. 

 

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Bottom one looks like a leptoseris.  First might be a favia of some sort but I'm not sure.

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Awww stomatellas are cute, usually come out at night.  I used to have an abalone in my 40!  Good guys!

 

Like @mndfreeze said, if its tiny thin worms, usually beneficial. :)  really good sign your substrate has flourishing fauna!

 

 

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7 hours ago, Aurortpa said:

Awww stomatellas are cute, usually come out at night.  I used to have an abalone in my 40!  Good guys!

 

Like @mndfreeze said, if its tiny thin worms, usually beneficial. 🙂 really good sign your substrate has flourishing fauna!

 

 

Great! I googled the stomatellas snail and that is exactly what I have  thanks a lot 

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