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earthboy17 12/22/2007 03:30 PM

What eats bristleworms?
 
I've got a ton of bristleworms in my tank. And I know they can be beneficial. I'd just like to have less of them.

I've set a trap of a 20oz soda bottle cut and inverted, and it caught a couple of tiny ones, but I think it'd be more fun to have a BWorm predator swimming around.

So what eats BWorms?


Thanks,
Tom

tonggao 12/22/2007 04:30 PM

Sixline wrasse

Ebmorri 12/22/2007 04:36 PM

[url]http://melevsreef.com/id/ln_hawkfish.html[/url]

delsol650 12/22/2007 04:42 PM

most hallicoris type wrasse ( IE' yellow coris ), mystery's, (6line's and similar genus' like 4, 6, 8 and 12 lines, dissapearing wrasses ), arrow crabs, coral banded shrimp, most wrasses when big enough will probly peck at them.

Sk8r 12/22/2007 04:46 PM

Caution, Will Robinson... If you have way many, they're eating something---debris must be more than you'd like, if worms are more numerous than you like. Killing them off will leave the debris [and additional poo as killer purges them into water stream.] Translation: you could work yourself into a nitrate spike. Try just feeding less, or maybe getting a few burrowing Nassarius [not from Ebay] snails that will quietly outcompete the worms for that detritus, plus not multiply so fast.

sfsuphysics 12/22/2007 06:33 PM

^^ What he says.

I can understand not wanting as many, but there's something keeping them alive in the first place, that something is the "crap" (generic) that they eat (uneaten food, poo, dying animals)

stubbsz 12/22/2007 08:32 PM

cool, I don't have many. Must be a good sign !

delsol650 12/22/2007 09:27 PM

Me niether, I'll be lucky to find some that hasn't been taken out by the wrasses.

earthboy17 12/23/2007 02:21 AM

No, that's a great point.

I recently cut back on feeding, but that is a concern.

I just picked up an arrow crab from AAF, and may get another Nassarius or two.

Death to worms!

drdoolittle 12/23/2007 02:53 AM

Large brittle worms ate two of my clams this week.

At first, I thought something was wrong with my tank. But when I removed the half dead clams. I found tons of worms inside the clam shell. I lost a 6 inch clam and a 2 inch maxima.

I bought two coral banded shrimp to keep the worms I check. Hopefully it works.

delsol650 12/23/2007 03:29 AM

I just caught my large cleaner shrimp take out a 2" bristleworm and its still eating it right now in the dark.

Vincerama2 12/24/2007 03:47 PM

The early bristle-bird?

;)

V

corals b 4 bills 12/24/2007 03:51 PM

Arrow crabs, one night I looked in my tank and I saw him double fisting two worms.

spike78 12/24/2007 03:57 PM

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11442756#post11442756 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by drdoolittle [/i]
[B]Large brittle worms ate two of my clams this week.

At first, I thought something was wrong with my tank. But when I removed the half dead clams. I found tons of worms inside the clam shell. I lost a 6 inch clam and a 2 inch maxima.

I bought two coral banded shrimp to keep the worms I check. Hopefully it works. [/B][/QUOTE]

I really doubt the Bristle worms were the cause of your Clams demise. I suspect the clams died and then the worms invaded the shell to eat the decaying tissue.

3mm3 12/24/2007 04:24 PM

I have seen my cleaner shrimp take out Bristle worms.. Very exciting to see.:D

tizzy 12/24/2007 06:55 PM

good my @ss
 
not sure why anyone thinks these things are "good" for any tank, other than providing a meal for a wrasse and turning some sand they are useless to me.

I just nabbed this one (4+ inches) that was trying to grab a piece of shrimp. I still have this "beneficial" creature it if anyone would like it!

[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/37131934@N00/show/[/url]

spike78 12/25/2007 03:44 AM

Re: good my @ss
 
[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11451420#post11451420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tizzy [/i]
[B]not sure why anyone thinks these things are "good" for any tank, other than providing a meal for a wrasse and turning some sand they are useless to me.

I just nabbed this one (4+ inches) that was trying to grab a piece of shrimp. I still have this "beneficial" creature it if anyone would like it!

[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/37131934@N00/show/[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]

Most bristleworms are strict detrivores and stir the sediments in a sand bed. Both extremely beneficial functions. This is why they are good for your tank...

GreshamH 12/26/2007 12:26 PM

Re: Re: good my @ss
 
[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11453127#post11453127 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spike78 [/i]
[B]Most bristleworms are strict detrivores and stir the sediments in a sand bed. Both extremely beneficial functions. This is why they are good for your tank... [/B][/QUOTE]

Not to mention their spawn is great coral food :)


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