EEEk Help Please?

[Jkelley]

 
Ummmmmm......so, I'm not certain what I'm looking at....can anyone point out what is taking over my tank?

Green tubes in my colony?

And some clear swimming bandit???

[Darth]

well the green tubes look like some sort of anenemome or torch coral the other side is aptasia the other thing could be some sort of sea slug (nudibranch) or something

[Greatwhite]

Keep a close eye on the tubes...  If it's an anemone, it'll probably move out of there.  The good news is, it doesn't look like a BAD anemone..  Coloring like that is common to desirable ones.

The slug looking thing... There's so many different species of them that it may be hard to ID it exactly, but I can say that it doesn't look like the Zoa eating ones that I've removed from my tank on more than one occasion.  It's actually quite neat looking.

[Jkelley]

It's actually quite neat looking

Hmmm, neat like, gee wilikers I sure do wish I had a pair of those clear looking oddities?

the other side is aptasia

LMAO thanks Darth for pointing that one out......I wasn't worried about that ID. 

[Greatwhite]

It's hard to judge the size in your pic.. but do they look like this?
http://www.livingreefs.com/tiny-clear-white-small-creature-id-please-t26551.html

[Darth]

It's hard to judge the size in your pic.. but do they look like this?
http://www.livingreefs.com/tiny-clear-white-small-creature-id-please-t26551.html

good call looks very similar IMO

[Jkelley]

BAH, so they are flatworms? Are they still neat whitey white?

[Greatwhite]

Yeah, I think they're neat - but remove them.  Maybe someone with red flatworms will want them, since the white ones eat the red ones... But then they'd have to find out what color eats the white ones, and then something to eat those ones.

[Jkelley]

DAMIT!!!! so any suggestion of fish, because I spent two days trying to catch these things and let me tell you;

These flatworms belong to Michael Phelps testicular swimsquad   

Speedy buggers!

[Greatwhite]

DAMIT!!!! so any suggestion of fish, because I spent two days trying to catch these things and let me tell you;

These flatworms belong to Michael Phelps testicular swimsquad   

Speedy buggers!

Some wrasses will eat flat worms... but it really depends on the fish.  My tank had neat little jellyfish until I moved.  I haven't seen them since.  I tried to get a picture of them, or video, because no one believe there was jellyfish in my tank.. But every time I'd get one in frame, it would catch a current and get blown away.

[Jkelley]

Jelly Fish.....that's what you were telling people?

OK, so I need a flatworm assassin?   Wrasse  you say?  Okay.....you sure you don't want them....they re neat?

[rgauvin]

DAMIT!!!! so any suggestion of fish, because I spent two days trying to catch these things and let me tell you;

These flatworms belong to Michael Phelps testicular swimsquad   

Speedy buggers!

this seems like a "work smarter not harder" way to get rid of most of them.
http://www.melevsreef.com/flatworms.html

[Jkelley]

BRILLIANT ARTICLE, THANKS SO MUCH.

[Roxanne]

Keep an eye on the anemone in your zoa's as, although hard to say from the picture, it could also be majano (pest anemone)