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Old 02-15-2012, 09:06 PM
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The worm with red hairs sounds like a bristle worm and the star fish is a Asterina starfish.

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Old 02-15-2012, 09:10 PM
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The worm with red hairs sounds like a bristle worm and the star fish is a Asterina starfish.

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Thank you so much! After you said that, I looked up pictures of younger bristleworms, and they look identical. I'll get rid of it if it hasn't been eaten or died yet.
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:19 PM
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Bristle worms won't hurt anything. Scavengers. Eat waste food move detritus.

Leave them.
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:21 PM
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No need to get rid of it. They are beneficial to your tank. Just don't pick it up with your bare hands. Myself I don't have a reaction to them but many do.
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Bristle worms won't hurt anything. Scavengers. Eat waste food move detritus.

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No need to get rid of it. They are beneficial to your tank. Just don't pick it up with your bare hands. Myself I don't have a reaction to them but many do.
I'm not sure why I thought they were so bad, but I'll leave them now. Thanks for the help guys.
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I'm not sure why I thought they were so bad, but I'll leave them now. Thanks for the help guys.
Because they look like they are bad lol. People used to kill them thinking they were bad but in the end anything that eats waste is good ""
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Old 02-15-2012, 10:26 PM
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Because they look like they are bad lol. People used to kill them thinking they were bad but in the end anything that eats waste is good ""
Yup.

If you over feed your tank you will have lots. LOTS.

But Almost everyone is going to have a few.
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That starfish is no Asterina. I'm not sure what starfish that is, but I wouldn't trust it since most starfish are either not reef-safe or not sandbed safe.

So...if these things are all alive I'm assuming you did not quarantine or dip the corals before placing them into your tank? If that's the case, I would strongly suggest that if you aren't going to quarantine the corals that you at least start using a good coral dip to "wash" the corals of any hitchhikers that might be catching a ride. There are many hitchhikers that would cause a lot of grief. I really like CoralRx as a dip, and am not a fan or the iodine-based dips.
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