shrinking frags, small worms

[TomL]

I have been keeping an eye on my frags and some look nice and open, and some look like there closed and there getting skinny. I just turned the lights on so some of them are not open, but the ones i put a red circle around are what i am worried about. They are gettin very slim and never open. I also see TONS and TONS of small little centipedes crawling all over the rocks and corals. They are like a white/clear centipede and so small they are hard to see. I would say there about 1/4 of the size of a fenel seed. I am not sure if there harmful but they are so small i cant even take a picture of them. They are not red either, not even tinted, jsut clear/white.

[TomL]

The pictures are not old, the camera date is off

[TomL]

some other shots i tried to get

[iVgOnMaD]

i have no idea, try reefcentral.com

[TomL]

me either

[graphixx]

I am not sure what is the cause of that but I had some zoo's do that and sorry to say that they totally all melted away. I tried moving them to diff parts of the water tried a lugols dip, freshwater dip. but all was to no avail. if youfigure it out let us know.

[Whoyah]

I would watch for zoa predators like sundial snails and zoa spiders. http://www.melevsreef.com/id/

Here is link to Marc's wonderful site that shows both. Zoa spiders are in the Pod section.

[melev]

I added some new pictures of those spiders last week.

I can't see the pests you've described in those pictures. The best you might do is find a picture on my site or the web that looks like what you are seeing to determine the problem.

[TomL]

Marc,
I checked your site, nothign that looks like them that i could find yet. I will search the net and post a pic if i can find one. I still do not have a protien skimmer or RO/DI system. Suppose to be coming on x-mas (i hope).

[TomL]

I say it looks like this, VERY VERY tiny, almost hard to see unless you really stare at the rock then you can see hundreds crawling all around. It is more white i think but very similar if not exact.