Fish that eat bristle worms?

[jawfish101]

I've heard that there are fish that eat bristle worms, but what are they? I would like to buy one, but i'm not sure which fish eat them. It would need to be reef safe and small enough to fit in a 24gl nano. I have bristle worms all over my tank and need to get rid of a few!
Thanks

 

[tangs123]

6 line wrasse is a predator to most rock inhabitants,
and should be fine in a 24G and is reef safe 98% of the time

 

[kev]

Will the 6 line eat the small dusters that I have on my LR???

 

[reckler]

my 6 line don't.

 

[tangs123]

no it should be fine with feather dusters

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by Kev
Will the 6 line eat the small dusters that I have on my LR???
FYI - Those small dusters are a type of Bristle Worm.

 

[jawfish101]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
FYI - Those small dusters are a type of Bristle Worm.
Really? Interesting...are they bad? Is it all of the little dusters - or just some?
Thanks anyway, I was pretty sure that 6-line wrasse did, but I thought i'd ask because I wasn't sure. I will be adding one to my system as soon as possible.

 

[wellsi]

I personally never had much luck with fish eating them but arrow crabs wrork pretty well. Just use caution and you might want to remove him as he gets bigger or cleans up most of the worms.

 

[xoxox]

My Springer's Dottyback is listed as a small bristleworm eater, I've never seen him eat any but they don't come out until night. He might get a few on the pass. Hes a very cool fish to have, I think Dottybacks are great fish!

 

[jawfish101]

Originally Posted by XoXoX
My Springer's Dottyback is listed as a small bristleworm eater, I've never seen him eat any but they don't come out until night. He might get a few on the pass. Hes a very cool fish to have, I think Dottybacks are great fish!
But I thought that Dottybacks are considered semi-aggressive? I think that they are cool, but I have a firefish and a Barnacle Blenny that I don't want to be picked on.
Thanks

 

[xoxox]

Originally Posted by Jawfish101
But I thought that Dottybacks are considered semi-aggressive? I think that they are cool, but I have a firefish and a Barnacle Blenny that I don't want to be picked on.
Thanks
No, hes not aggressive at all, hes too small to be.

 

[promisetbg]

Why do you want to rid your tank of bristleworms anyway?

 

[jawfish101]

Originally Posted by promisetbg
Why do you want to rid your tank of bristleworms anyway?
I have A LOT! I don't want to completely rid my tank of them, but I just don't want that many.
Or is it an all-or-none thing?

 

[promisetbg]

Cut back on your feeding and their numbers will drop.

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by Jawfish101
Really? Interesting...are they bad? Is it all of the little dusters - or just some?
All featherdusters are Bristle Worms. None are harmful. Very very few bristleworms are harmful.

 

[craigbrown]

found a way to get rid of a bunch of worms at once take a pice of raw shrimp and put it under a shell in the morning and let it go till the next morning and pull the shell off and scoop the worms up i got about 30- 40 in one night after your done check your water levels ph etc

 

[lamaface]

I've got 3 wrasse in my system (Fairy wrasse, Bannana Wrasse and sixline) and my bannana wrasse hunts the brisstle worms in the morning. He eats like 5-10 a day. I've never seen my sixline eat worms. lol, when i pulled apart al my liverock when i moved into my 260 gallon system I almost got pricked by the biggest fireworm i've ever seen... it had antenae and like teeth and was scary...