They will be back.
Then you have to do it all over again disrupting the whole reef environment again.
Good luck with that.
Then you have to do it all over again disrupting the whole reef environment again.
Good luck with that.
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Bobbie worms are the spawn of satan, are what nightmares are made of.If those are creepy imagine tearing down a huge lagoon with 500+ lbs of rock for 3 days, to find a Bobbit worm crawling over my barefoot. It was at least 5 feet. it must have came in our our rock (this was in the late 90s) and lived in there 6 years or so... i had no idea such creatures existed till the pond was down to a a few inches.
You gotta be kidding??I saw one going In my rock and I instantly threw away all of my rocks away and got new ones
Just to let you know by soaking your rocks in distilled water with hydrogen peroxide, your rock has lost it's bacteria too. Now dead rocks and dead worms....to each their ownSoaked one of the rocks in hot distilled water with H2O2. After an hour, this is what my daughter and I were able to get out of the rock. The really big one broke in half, but still. Gross!
Please do not boil rock!!If I am you, I would boil everything first before I put it into your tank. You must keep it hot long enough to boiling temperature reach inside the middle of the rock. Rinse everything alive, that you want in the tank, with fresh sterile sea water. You can boil salt water then cool it down.
Doing this you will have animals you put into the tank on purpose and no hitch hiker. I am sure you can achieve what you want by doing this. Won't have a very interesting tank, IMO, and very difficult to keep stable, but with enough water changes, hopefully it can keep the fishes alive. Some of the invertebrates are a lot hardier, but "creepiness" is a death sentence so "creepiness be gone".
I'm glad you were successful in what you wanted to do.Bristle worms gross me out. Sorry, not sorry. We all have things that bother us that don't bother other people.
The tank I was given was heavily infested. Severely gross. I ended up not using any of the rock or substrate from that tank when I moved into the 55g (so, yeah, the H2O2-killed rock is now chilling nicely in my kids' rock garden). No bristle worms in the new tank!
I'm relatively new back into the hobby (my last marine tank was in 2002). I'm still getting caught up on things, so please be kind if my questions or choices aren't to your liking. I appreciate the help and the advice.
Have a great day everyone! Here's a happy picture of my tuxedo urchin wearing a crown!
Thank you, from one Eeyore to another.I'm glad you were successful in what you wanted to do.
Hopefully any remaining (or new, if you add anything else to your tank) worms will be small and rarely seen. You can help keep their numbers small by not overfeeding the tank... the reason some of us don't mind them is that they are great at eating detritus and extra food.
Good luck!
No, not mean at all. It's just dangerous to boil this type of rock. Expanding gasses and all.Am I been mean? If I am then I am sorry. Will stop comment on this thread now.