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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 |
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Sixline wrasse
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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.
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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.
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^^ 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)
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cool, I don't have many. Must be a good sign !
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Me niether, I'll be lucky to find some that hasn't been taken out by the wrasses.
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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! |
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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. |
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I just caught my large cleaner shrimp take out a 2" bristleworm and its still eating it right now in the dark.
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The early bristle-bird?
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Arrow crabs, one night I looked in my tank and I saw him double fisting two worms.
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I have seen my cleaner shrimp take out Bristle worms.. Very exciting to see.
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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! http://www.flickr.com/photos/37131934@N00/show/ |
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Re: good my @ss
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Re: Re: good my @ss
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