Livestock?

[KapoKidd]

Hi,

Went to the Pasir Ris Farm yesterday and bought ALGAE rocks not liverock. Since im a newbie i just bought it washed it.....some animals came crawling out like a snail, two small crabs and a clam. Since i thought they would do no harm i put them back into the display tank. Then, today when i turned on the lights OH MY GOD there were a couple of centipides-like animals in the tank. Are these good? AM i doind the correct thing?

[SBS_Transit]

i think the rock that u bought, seem like live rock. u should cure it before putting it into your tank

[AquaRa]

u must kill those worms. they may bite your fish

[SBS_Transit]

kill those worms and take out your rock,

[je7170]

Bought mine at Pasir Ris yesterday too. Found 1 same like creature. Swop up and flush it into the toilet.

[yus75]

Bought mine at Pasir Ris yesterday too. Found 1 same like creature. Swop up and flush it into the toilet.

hope the ting really flush away n stuck hafway ...later crawl back how ehehhehe

[terryansimon]

not all worms are as dastardly as you people portray them to be.

[CalciumReef]

i suggest you read up bawater's article on setting up a marine tank.....it will be very helpful.

[KapoKidd]

OK removed them already....but is it a must to take out the liverocks to cure them or can i just live it as i am in the process of cycling the tank...

[Kalib]

Taking out the rocks is NOT curing them. Curing is the process whereby the rocks are left in a tub of saltwater and let all the die-offs to occur. After all the die-offs have occured, the rock is considered to have been cured.

Since your in the cycling stage, just leave them in the tank as the die-offs are needed to start the cycling process.

[FuEl]

I have one of those polychaete worms in my tank..about 10cm long and looks extremely menacing. So far it has not attacked anything..not even my 1-2cm yellow rock goby.

[Dispar_Anthias]

kill those worms and take out your rock,

hey hey pls don't give wrong information I think the centuipede like worm is most probably a bristle worms(of course without photo, this is my rough guess) and bristle worm are in fact very good dertivore and scavenger and IMO one should nto remove them, let say kill them. If you dun want the worms i am willing to adopt for you

[junyong84]

alage rock??? never heard of it..

IMO, muz be Live Rock full of green alage lar..

[KapoKidd]

Oh man y did not post earlier..... .I think i removed most of these worms....Argghhh!! Ill take your advice

[shiraz]

a CLAM came crawling out of the rock?!

yeah just like what DA said anyway... might be bristleworms..

[bwilly]

why remove..? your marine fishes will love them as alternate food.

[blacknails]

Hey man IMO the only thing you should have removed were the crabs....

[Dispar_Anthias]

a CLAM came crawling out of the rock?!

yeah just like what DA said anyway... might be bristleworms..

Then i must surely go PR farm and buy the rocks. Maybe a ultra maxima will pop out

[Wei]

hmmm...pple pay a premium to get live rocks that comes with the critters. It helps to seed the sand. FOr the worms,pods, etc, they play a major role of swifting the sand below, preventing sand from clumping & move the N2 up from below. I would only remove the crabs and mantis only.

Guess pple nowadays are flushing the money out into the bowl!!!

Still its better than pouring hot water onto the rocks!!!

Wei

[aStRoBo|]

juz saw a super LONG worm out frm my LR(throw away liao), more than 20cm. Dun wanna waste my time catching it cos it's feeding on my tubeworms..idiot worm..

[Virus]

I also got this bristleworm in my LR.. think no harm is done.. my fish corals not affected by it. Very seldom see it... when i do.. he's like a rockworm like that came out from one hole and burrow into another. heheh is a bit scary lah.

I think algae rock is LR, no difference lah just that it's covered with Algae. In my first setup i got a few rocks with these too... but somehow think they cannot survive and a lot turn brown and die off and they just withered and drop to my sandbed... Grrrr messy man and some just drop off and float around in my tank... fed up.. took them out and pluck out all of them LOL.

[KapoKidd]

Hey Virus...can pluck out the algae meh..?? Would it leave any stains on the rock..?? Mine has a lot cover almost 3/4 of the rock and still very thick..

[Fishy Clown]

why would you wanna pluck em off? Certain types of fishes eat them. Unless you mean they are growing all over the surfaces of you tank and you find them unslightly, other than that its ok ain't it?

[KapoKidd]

Sorry for changing topic but during the cycling stage i put in a dead market fish only small portion and the water turns cloudy and water smells is this a good sign?

[Fishy Clown]

If the water is too cloudy or the water really stinks that you can't stand it, remove it. Maybe you have added a portion too big for your tank. How big is it?