-pest or benificial?

[Jenndarlin]

The other day I was moving a GSP Rock which I had noticed one or two of the "small milipede, catepillar" type creatures climbing on the night before. I picked up the rock and felt a little sting but not too bad but then when I pulled my hand out of the tank I could feel something like "stinging nettle" well i looked at my finger and it was COVERED in tiny almost translucent white "nettles". Took me over an hour to pull them all out with tweezers. got a tiny bit of blister but I thought that was probably more swelling from the sting.

Is this charachteristical of the bristleworms or does it sound like something else???

Thanx
Jenn

[marie]

Originally Posted by Jenndarlin

The other day I was moving a GSP Rock which I had noticed one or two of the "small milipede, catepillar" type creatures climbing on the night before. I picked up the rock and felt a little sting but not too bad but then when I pulled my hand out of the tank I could feel something like "stinging nettle" well i looked at my finger and it was COVERED in tiny almost translucent white "nettles". Took me over an hour to pull them all out with tweezers. got a tiny bit of blister but I thought that was probably more swelling from the sting.

Is this charachteristical of the bristleworms or does it sound like something else???

Thanx
Jenn

definitely bristle worm, scotch tape helps pull out the bristles. I don't usually get much of a reaction from bristle worms, hydriods on the other hand can make me intensely itchy for weeks

[bv_reefer]

-thats definitely the culprit were talking about! -as mentioned earlier,
there usually not ''bad'' but as also mentioned don't handle bare handed-

[bv_reefer]

-just wondering about the hydroid, where wud u get that pest(IMO)
does it come on live rock or what? cuz the only things that shud sting in my tank are the anemones.

[marie]

Originally Posted by bv_reefer

-just wondering about the hydroid, where wud u get that pest(IMO)
does it come on live rock or what? cuz the only things that shud sting in my tank are the anemones.

Google is your friend and yes they usually come in on the rock

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=hydroids
http://www.reefs.org/library/aquariu...97/1097_2.html