Bristle Worm Spawn?

[Jimmy G]

Anybody ever seen this happen in their tank? Well it's not a pretty sight let me tell you 8O . I came home from work tonight and noticed my tank was a little cloudy. I soon saw the reason, bristle worms were spewing a milky white substance! Water is so bad now I can hardly see into the tank.
Is this going to hurt anything? Corals all seem fine except for the Pom Pom Xenia which looks unhappy.
I'm running some carbon and my skimmer is foaming pretty good. Hope everything is ok in the morning...

 

[bleedingthought]

JustPhish had this happen, and unfortunately even posted videos, to his tank not too long ago. AFAIK, he just rode it out by adding carbon and doing a water change. I'm sure he'll chime in soon.

 

[Jimmy G]

Tank looks fine this morning. If I hadn't of seen it ,I wouldn't know anything had happened. Some of the corals actually seemed to enjoy it, especially the Sun Coral.
So, am I going to have an explosion of brisle worms in my system now?

 

[Anonymous]

Yep happened to me. Here's a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rlvlp-oQNw

I just cleaned up my skimmer and let it work. Of course it's a 4 foot tall beckett, but still, the entire system looked like whole milk.

No ill effects thus far.