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barchtruong

barchtruong

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I've read about Bristle worm recently and thought it's kind of creepy to have such creature in the tank. And last night when the tank light was out, there go the creepy thing, crawling out of the new polyp I just got a couple days ago into my rock work. I was stunned to see that thing crawling out and I thought, well, they said it's about 1 1/2" long, so no big deal and let see how long he is :scared: . Oh god, I had goose bumps all over me. That thing kept crawling and crawling and it's about 5"long :scared: . I seriously didn't expect to have that creepy thing in my tank anytime soon because my tank is only 1 month old, but it's a well established tank with corals, Anemone, and fishes in there. I heard Bristle worm is good but asexually reproduces quite quickly. So I went, hmmmmm....what should I do now.....hmmmmm :thinking:
 
payton 350

payton 350

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i say nothing.....i have heard of some horror stories of them getting super big ..12 inches or so and causing problems, but i used to find them munching down on the hair algae in the tank, unfortunalety they never did the job quick enough to control it
 
barchtruong

barchtruong

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so, how exactly do they reproduce asexually?
do they just, like, break into 20 pieces and call it 20 lil new ones,
I'm always curious about how they spread.
 
mandarin w

mandarin w

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Originally Posted by barchtruong
I've read about Bristle worm recently and thought it's kind of creepy to have such creature in the tank. And last night when the tank light was out, there go the creepy thing, crawling out of the new polyp I just got a couple days ago into my rock work. I was stunned to see that thing crawling out and I thought, well, they said it's about 1 1/2" long, so no big deal and let see how long he is :scared: . Oh god, I had goose bumps all over me. That thing kept crawling and crawling and it's about 5"long :scared: . I seriously didn't expect to have that creepy thing in my tank anytime soon because my tank is only 1 month old, but it's a well established tank with corals, Anemone, and fishes in there. I heard Bristle worm is good but asexually reproduces quite quickly. So I went, hmmmmm....what should I do now.....hmmmmm :thinking:
There is no such thing as a well established tank that is one month old. You are putting things in there way too fast. It is going to come back and bite you in the butt.
 
barchtruong

barchtruong

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I've been monitoring my tank everyday for over a month now. I have 50lb of lr in the 55gal tank. There was a spike of Amo, and Trate about the 2nd wk, then I changed water every 3 days.
Everything's been down to 0. I am good and doing water change thou.
If you say, it's impossilbe. I understand what you mean. But I seriously got the tank running much smoother than I thought.
 
miamishrip

miamishrip

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i've seen quite a few of them in my tank - some about 5inches - i've also noticed my CBS with a worm in its clutches on several occasions - this should keep the population under control IMO.
 
mandarin w

mandarin w

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You may be watching everything, but using the phase "well established" "and one month old" are just impossiblities. I won't, can't, and doesn't happen. I am just saying Beware.and slow down. give your tank time to catch up. It usally take 2 weeks for a tank to build enough bacteria to support the one new fish added. You have added way to much. and there has not been enough time for your tank to catch up. One of two thing will happen when a tank has to catch up with a bio load. One is the noral small additions, and the tank just has to catch up a little. no problem, or TWO: there is a large bio difference and the tank has to over work it self to catch up. Sometimes it will struggle to do it. and others times, the tank is overwhelmed and will crash, all the bacteria you builb up from cycleing your tank will die off. and then everything in your tank.
 
cannonman

cannonman

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Not to jump in here BUT: there is a difference between a well stocked tank and a well established tank. You can cycle and stock a tank in one month yes... but to have a well "established" tank takes time and there isn't any short cuts to that. A well established tank will have a diverse number of micro-organisims that have established breeding populations, water perameters all in check for a length of time, etc etc. IMO it takes at least a year to get a well established salt water aquarium. I wish I could find the post that was on here about the worms.. one guy pulled one out of his tank (after taking it apart) ((a tank that was three years old if I remember right)) and that worm was SEVEN FEET long!! The pictures were crazy.
 
barchtruong

barchtruong

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I only have 2 Perc and a Flame Angel which just added yesterday.
The Blenny is the starter and I have to give him all the credit cuz he had to hang on tight with the tank cycling process. I
I have 3 Feather Dusters which I don't think they have anything to do with increasing the amount of waste in the tank.
Just recently added a few corals, 11 snails and a sand sifter cucumber.
I feed my fishes very minimal. There's no room for Amo. to grow in the tank.
Live rocks surely rock, coraline algea are speading fast.
 
rackyrane

rackyrane

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Cannonman,
I think the tank you were referring to was on Oregonreef.com under the worm incident link on the sidebar. That guys tank is CRAZY! I wish I could afford something like that. He has pictures of this humongo worm he took out. :scared:
 
kayak385

kayak385

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Originally Posted by Rackyrane
Cannonman,
I think the tank you were referring to was on Oregonreef.com under the worm incident link on the sidebar. That guys tank is CRAZY! I wish I could afford something like that. He has pictures of this humongo worm he took out. :scared:
I just read that article and it is crazy... I'm shocked! But why didn't he see if it was a record holder?
 
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