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Hello everyone, so tonight i decided to look further into why one of my zoa frags wasn't opening up all the way and came to notice these tiny and I mean super tiny little worms around the base of the frag. So I decided to pick up the frag and look underneath it and there were these small almost bug like things crawling around the bottom which I assume is the larvae stage before transforming into the worm... ? After looking around, my sand bed is infested it seems with these tiny worms. Any ideas to what these worms could be..? Im worried they are effecting my zoanthids as it appears one of the polyps on one of my zoa frags looks like it was eaten.
 

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Do you have any pictures? The little bugs are likely pods. The worms are likely britsleworms.
 
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Okay yah after looking again I'm kinda leaning toward the worms being bristle worms as I do have larger bristle worms living in the live rock and my sump. I will get pictures tomorrow will have to use a macro lens as there so tiny
 

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