HELP!!!! BUGS KILLING MY SOFTIES

[bigfoot]

There are little 2-3 mm long bugs that look like millipedes crawling all over my softies and it appears they are eating them 3 of my yellow polyps are now dead and the blue polyps sugarmagnolia sent me only 4 are left these guys are eating them!!!!! how do i kill em?

[Condiman]

I am sorry that I can not help you but I hope someone can chime in with an answer for you.

I'm not failure with a millipede looking critter that eats corals... can you get a picture?? Some nudi's will, maybe that's what you have??

Are you sure the corals are not dieing and being cleaned up by these critters??

Have you looked through the identification forum to see if you can ID them?? Also, what color are they??

[FishinInTheDark]

I agree with Travis. A picture would really help. You want to identify them for a couple of reasons: to know if they are actually predacious; to know how to treat them if they are; if you participated in the frag swap, to warn the person you sent to.

The only millipede-looking creatures I can think of are bristle worms, but they would only clean up dying corals.

We're pulling for ya!

[Doctor_Reef]

A picture would be helpfull..Here is a shot of one kind of those coral eating bugs..not good to have in your tank..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v406/RLeversee/N111904.jpg

[bigfoot]

so small i cant get a pic.

[Doctor_Reef]

Hmmmmmmm....you may have to just go to the bug id section and see if you can match it up,.....if you are certain that they are killing the softies...and you can do a dip or even take the softie out and in another bucket of tank water shake it back and forth and see if you can dislodge them.... worth a try...then may be you can get a photo....

[Ocean Singer]

time to go redneck style, bust out the shotgun ;) just kiddin, maybe if you get REALLY desperate, try dipping the corals

[bigfoot]

HEY I AM A REDNECK! :) naw it think they are normal pods just eating the dead polyps they crawl on all my frags and live on the corals but my yellows are all fine i did damage 2 polyps while fragging and they ate those 2 cause they were dead

[Doctor_Reef]

Well, sounds like problem is solved!!!! :)

[Sugar Magnolia]

Luke, check through this link to see if you can ID your critters. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-08/rs/index.htm

It probably is what you suspect, just the pods cleaning up the dead polyps.

[bigfoot]

looks like an amphipod to me

[Sugar Magnolia]

Yup, figured it probably was. Great little reef janitors. They were just doing their job and cleaning up for you.