Anyone know of any fish that will eat large 8"+ bristle worms like candy?

fantastic4 · #1 10/19/2006, 10:18 AM

Have never seen fish eat these things like pancakes, looking for any help with personal experience with any aggressive fish that will eat these things like no tomorrow.

I know, I know, they are good for system....I'm just looking for one to eliminaite the bigs ones and pretty much keep my tank from worm over population.

Note:
This is a grouper tank, he makes a mess out of his food = my worm problem. I don't ind teh very tiny ones, just the nasty huge ones have to go. Looking for a large worm predator.

Kigs · #2 10/19/2006, 11:00 AM

how about an arrow crab?

fantastic4 · #3 10/19/2006, 11:15 AM

Have been considering it, have you seen thme take on the big worms? Pretty confident they will eat the little ones, but those crabs sure are small, the big worms might eat them!

mthedude · #4 10/19/2006, 01:58 PM

i'd manually remove them if you have a problem w/them. Get some pantyhose and put a piece of squid or shrimp in it overnight, wake up, should find the thing covered in worms. Grabe the big guy and discard or move to your fuge.

ZOKU · #5 10/19/2006, 02:18 PM

*nod* Keep 'em in the 'fuge...

fantastic4 · #6 10/19/2006, 03:03 PM

I'll try the stocking trap, read about it, but never thought it would work. What I really want to do is get an aggressive fish for my aggressive tank and have him chow down on these ugly suckers, an RC meber has stated that his Red Coris Wrasse eats them.