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Hey...need info on this...

Forgot to switch on the equipment for a small new tank that I was preparing.

There was some liverocks in them and some white mucus had formed on them.

Took them out to wash and was pricked by many,(I really meant) many small shiny 'needles' which was around half a centimetre each. Some hard and some soft...

They really stuck onto my fingers and I have to pull them out with tweezers...

Fingers felt itchy and warm after that. A few hours later after putting antiseptic cream and thought all was well...the warmth developed again. :cry2:

Questions :

1) What would they be?

2) How they derive?

3) Any ways to eliminate it from the rocks?

4) Detrimental factors?

Advice pls...Thanks :bow:

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saw a couple but they are the small ones. was looking for big ones though...so hypothesis is that they may not be the cause...

Upon observation, the rocks are still having them even after I have dried them under the sun.

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Hey...need info on this...

Forgot to switch on the equipment for a small new tank that I was preparing.

There was some liverocks in them and some white mucus had formed on them.

Took them out to wash and was pricked by many,(I really meant) many small shiny 'needles' which was around half a centimetre each. Some hard and some soft...

They really stuck onto my fingers and I have to pull them out with tweezers...

Fingers felt itchy and warm after that. A few hours later after putting antiseptic cream and thought all was well...the warmth developed again. :cry2:

Questions :

1) What would they be?

2) How they derive?

3) Any ways to eliminate it from the rocks?

4) Detrimental factors?

Advice pls...Thanks :bow:

They are sting left by bristle worm... There is nothing much you can do about it, just make sure that you slowly remove them one by one.... I remove them by using tape to stick them out



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they are bristles from your friendly neighbourhood bristle worms.

so its advisable to wear gloves when handling rocks...

another reefer thought me this method to get rid of them,

just run your bristled hand through your hair...

both hand and hair should be dry.

it works for me! ;)

nothig bad about it except that it HURTS!!!

and its bloody irritating <_<

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well..

if you like pain, sure. :P

try the hair method,

i didn't believe till i tried it.

its an old method pass down from the older generation.

Back when my family had a sugarcane plantation behind my house in Johor.

we always go and cut the sugarcane to eat.

The sugarcane also has these needle like thorns and like the bristleworm's, can be painful.

my grandma always tells us to just rub our hand against our hair.

true enuff...all gone.

Tried & tested method.

:lol:

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yes bum hair method sure do work :)

just go brush ur hand on someone eles hair heheh . pretending to brush off some dirt for them ! hehe

Damn, my dog has no fur! ;)

Wifey... oh wifey.... :whistle:angel:

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its an old method pass down from the older generation.

Back when my family had a sugarcane plantation behind my house in Johor.

we always go and cut the sugarcane to eat.

The sugarcane also has these needle like thorns and like the bristleworm's, can be painful.

my grandma always tells us to just rub our hand against our hair.

true enuff...all gone.

Tried & tested method.

:lol:

ya head about this hair brushing too long long time ago when i play around those bamboo tree.. they also have the spike thing like what sugarcane have

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saw a couple but they are the small ones. was looking for big ones though...so hypothesis is that they may not be the cause...

Upon observation, the rocks are still having them even after I have dried them under the sun.

i also got the spike a few times when i rearrange my LR... didnt know its the brit. worm's spike.. all along i tot the spike came fm a certain type of my LR...(those dead coral skeleton LR type).. heard IMM 2.00 shop is selling those long glove.. will get 1 if i'm there..

ohh... happy T day 2 u... :)

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Oh? You have not seen my doggy yet? He's a AHT. American Hairless Terrier. Very rare dog.

Here's my baby boy!!

cool!!!

i didnt think anyone would have gotten in a AHT in SGP!!

must have cost u a bomb?

and i tot my boston terrier was rare enuff in sgp already.

:lol::lol:

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We should recreate the doggie thread for all SRC dog owners... we are hijacking someone else's thread... quite rude you know! ;)

haha...now then you say...

It's okay with me...just pay the dues for the hijack lor...When business is concerned, we dun date back to the past to find the originator of the website wan...Boh chap wan...haha :D

Anyway, I got licence... :P so want to add in...Anyone seen a 28kg siberian husky(Barkus) who is an alpha male and appears in the a furniture advert? Still trying to find his whereabouts after I put him up for adoption a year back when I went to the States?

Benn missing him all this while... :cry2::cry2:

At was heard saying : :off::off::off:

The rest was heard saying : Mutiny on Board!!! :pirate::idea::pirate:

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they are bristles from your friendly neighbourhood bristle worms.

so its advisable to wear gloves when handling rocks...

another reefer thought me this method to get rid of them,

just run your bristled hand through your hair...

both hand and hair should be dry.

it works for me! ;)

nothig bad about it except that it HURTS!!!

and its bloody irritating <_<

wonder whose hair can try out beside mine



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