Bristle Worms

I lost everything in my tank a few months ago. I turned the lights and GFO/Carbon reactor off. The return pump, power heads, heater, and skimmer are still running. The skimmer pulled out this wonderful black smelly stuff a couple weeks ago.


I'm about to fire the GFO/Carbon reactor back up and the lights. I noticed the other day a large bristle worm in the tank when I walked by. Later on I used the flash light on my phone and found all of my rocks have 3-4 tiny worms on them and a bunch in the sand. If I could actually count them all there has to be over 100.


What is the fastest and easiest way to get rid of them?


I thought about just taking out all the rock and letting it dry out on the drive way and leave it dry for a couple months but I am hoping I can start restocking the tank in a couple months. New RO filters have been ordered for the my RODI filter so I can make new salt water as my salinty is still down at 1.027 when I was trying to kill Ich. My goal before putting any fish into the tank is to have the water pretty much "changed" all the way. Goal is to throw 6 chromis in for Christmas.


I plan to go get a 40 breeder over the week and start building a quarinty tank. Anything and everything will go in it before it even has a chance to look at my display tank.

 

so just let them be and they'll just go back to hiding when the lights come back on. and I meant my salinity is down to 1.007.

 

dont plan to do any feedings until I add fish again. I barely put any flake into my tank per feeding anyway cuz I was one of those that fed my fish daily and that's another thing I am cutting back.