My live rock has bugs in it?

[MizTanks]

Definitely not a bristle worm WOW! Nice picture nothing left to do, it's dead.
As for picking them out with tweezers, good luck with that! Only time you can do that with any success is if they are completely and I mean totally out of the rock. These lil buggers are strong and will break before giving up their grip. Chances are after your fresh water soak most if not everything once living in the rock has now perished. The good and the bad. Your rock will now begin to smell like a compost pile, well maybe worse then that, yea I remember it's a lot worse lol. So now your going to have to continue to clean the rock. Or if it were me? Dump it all and buy new

[Fish Dad]

Buying another 100 pounds of live rock is not an option?
So I my plan is to purchase one more 16 gallon tote, allowing more space for rock and water.
I will be filling with new RO w/salt water today and putting power heads in all three bucket for water movement.

If its going to stink it - it will live in the garage until smell is gone ( I will do water changes) as I will not have it in the house or I'll have to move out.

any advise is greatly appreciated.

[steve&mari]

Sounds like ya got a plan now follow it as ya said water changes n test till its ready to go ya should add some live rock to each bin to reactivate the dead rock n maybe after lil time add some pods to the tubs n lil MB7 to get it kicked into gear before long you'll be golden n can get on with the fun

Big Steve

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[MizTanks]

Get you a few big bags of carbon and throw them in with your rock. It works great removing the odor I used it.

[Pat-O]

Get you a few big bags of carbon and throw them in with your rock. It works great removing the odor I used it.

Idk the one i saw was smaller than an inch and from what i remember was a brownish color. Havent caught a glimpse of it since.

[Pat-O]

I was just trying to reply to my original post not quote a comment,
But back to the bug I only saw one and from what i remember it was smaller that an inch, a brownish color and it had legs the length of its body.

[redemer123]

Dont think that was a bobbit worm


this is though

[bluwc]

That is a Bobbit worm! WOW! Nice picture nothing left to do, it's dead.
As for picking them out with tweezers, good luck with that! Only time you can do that with any success is if they are completely and I mean totally out of the rock. These lil buggers are strong and will break before giving up their grip. Chances are after your fresh water soak most if not everything once living in the rock has now perished. The good and the bad. Your rock will now begin to smell like a compost pile, well maybe worse then that, yea I remember it's a lot worse lol. So now your going to have to continue to clean the rock. Or if it were me? Dump it all and buy new

Why would you dump out your rock and buy new? I'm sorry but that's bad advice.

Once you get your tank, put the rock in it and let it cycle. You're setting up a bigger tank, so put a nice deep sand bed in it (4") or so. Probably 6-8wks before you can put livestock in it but that depends on what you're readings are at. Just keep checking them and when everything is at 0, you'll be all set.

[MizTanks]

I was saying what I would do not what he should do. I wasn't giving advice as he didn't ask for any. There's a big difference.

[bluwc]

But if you pay (especially from a store at probably $600) or $200-$300 for rock from a reefer, that is a lot of money to just throw away. I guess it's good that some people are in a position to toss out hundreds of dollars for no reason....but I don't know anyone else who would.

I've said this numerous times.....if someone is concerned with what is "live" on/in the rock and didn't want to risk it in their tanks......why wouldn't you bake it in the oven at 400 degrees for a couple of hours. It's faster than baking it in the sun for days and your end result is the same.....dead rock. If you can kill whatever is in it.....make it live again after numerous weeks, wouldn't that make more sense than just throwing it away?