Bristle worms

thefishy

thefishy

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Tonight i saw the most crazy thing i have ever seen so far... my bristle worms in my tank one at a time started to come out of the rock and squirt this milky substance into my aquarium.. I take it they are mating? Now if i do not have corals a over abundance in bristle worms is ok? I have noticed my bristle worm population spike like crazy, when i feed my fish they come out of the sand and rocks to eat!! Also noticed when i clean my pads i no longer have all kinds of pods on them just bristle worms.. do they eat pods or anything?
 
1journeyman

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Don't know if they eat pods, as I would expect pods to be fast enough to avoid them.
An excess number of worms is usually a sign of over feeding.
 
thefishy

thefishy

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ok, i will cut back feeding for sure. see how it goes with the population. thanks for the advice once again=)
 
1journeyman

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Originally Posted by LazyPinoy
get a coral banded shrimp to cut the population off.
Coral Banded Shrimp are known predators of fish when they get larger.
 
1journeyman

1journeyman

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Originally Posted by thefishy
ok, i will cut back feeding for sure. see how it goes with the population. thanks for the advice once again=)
Hehe, well don't starve your fish. How are your nitrates? Are they consistently high?
 
poniegirl

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Originally Posted by ROYAL GANG
ugh
then a freaking six-line wrasse :mad:

Many species of wrasse will eat the bristles and also flatworms. Look on this site, I had what SWF.com calls a Pennant Fairy wrasse. Beautiful, social fish and did a great job on the bristles.
I currently have 2 cigar wrasse and they are the same on the worms. They actually dump the sand and worms out of the empty hermie shells to get them. It's a hoot!
 
thefishy

thefishy

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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Hehe, well don't starve your fish. How are your nitrates? Are they consistently high?
YEA Nitrates are considerably high... like really really high.. doing alot of changes since i have learned so much from this board. water changes for the most part do not help.. narrowed it down to the ugf... or at least i think=) Was thinking of getting a wrasse or a psuedo<? but heard alot about them getting bigger and running the whole tank or being too aggressive towards other tankmates.. right now up for any comments only have a brittle star(extremely large) 2 black damsels with yellow tails, and one ocellaris clown.
 
thefishy

thefishy

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Originally Posted by PonieGirl

Many species of wrasse will eat the bristles and also flatworms. Look on this site, I had what SWF.com calls a Pennant Fairy wrasse. Beautiful, social fish and did a great job on the bristles.
I currently have 2 cigar wrasse and they are the same on the worms. They actually dump the sand and worms out of the empty hermie shells to get them. It's a hoot!
Will have to check them out. have you had any probs with them being aggresive?>
 
poniegirl

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Originally Posted by thefishy
Will have to check them out. have you had any probs with them being aggresive?>
The fairy wrasse was not aggressive. Very nice fish. Whip fin fairys, like the pennant fairy and some filimented will not get very large. Some other wrasse species will.
What size is the tank and what are your test readings?
 
lazypinoy

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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Coral Banded Shrimp are known predators of fish when they get larger.
yeah i kno. when they get that big all u have to do is pull em out and put'em in a fry pan and have ur self a one shrimp dinner @ 10$. lol i thought Red Lobster was expensive!
no. but id put it in there for "awhile" when it becomes to agressive give to ur lfs or a friend with a agressive tank and watch em pull it apart...or u can be nice and sell it away.
 
thefishy

thefishy

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Originally Posted by PonieGirl
The fairy wrasse was not aggressive. Very nice fish. Whip fin fairys, like the pennant fairy and some filimented will not get very large. Some other wrasse species will.
What size is the tank and what are your test readings?
it is a 58g. amm.0 nitrite 0, nitrate is like 100 taking care of that today... or hopefully in the next couple of weeks. 1.025 sg, and ph is 8.4
 
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