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Super Len

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You mean these?

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I've got thousands
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question: where could i get some of those tube worms for my tank?!? wow

i noticed that both chris_h and Leonard have a DSB. would the tube worms pictured have trouble anchoring in a quarter to a half inch of CC?

I really want some of those. Would i just search the sponsors Livestock selection until i found a 'tubeworm rock' or a 'feather duster rock'?

thanks
chris
 
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I dont know of anyone that sells them. They grow like crazy so if you can find anyone near you they will probaly give you a few to get started. YOu might even be able to find someone on the board that would ship them to you. They do eat more detritus than most of the other invetebrates sold to eat detritus, and they make a good food source for some fish. As for the sand, the ones in the picture are in a shallow sand bed (one 1 inch deep); I have my DSB in my sump. THe tubeworms do not grow on the rocks for me.
 
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I have a few that come with a piece of coral. In less than a year, I have thousands covering most LR, sand and walls. These became nuance because fragments of them may drop off, and clog up the return pump. I have to clear up areas of the return intake periodically to prevent pump jam. Their tube is soft and somewhat elastic. normal pump blade will not be able to chop them off and got jammed.
 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by pojohnny:
<strong>bispira Have i found them? this link is to petwarehouse.com</strong><hr></blockquote>

That is not them. They look very different. Look at one of my picture that shows them up close and then look at their picture. THey are very different.
 
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You guy's that have thousands of these, do you have any peppermint shrimp or any other shrimp?
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SPC:
<strong>You guy's that have thousands of these, do you have any peppermint shrimp or any other shrimp?
Steve</strong><hr></blockquote>

I have 2 cleaner shrimps and they never bother them. My engineer goby ocasionally eats one but that does not matter. It is fun to watch the fish try to eat them and then they close, but the engineer goby goes ahead and eats the whole thing while other fish give up after it closes.
 
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Hi there,

I got some of the same things. Mine came in on a bunch of macroalgae that I pulled right out of a mangrove swamp here in Florida. Mine are growing really fast. I never saw them when I was picking the different types of macroalgae but it seemed that they hitch-hiked along the mermaids shaving brush, some immediatley abandonded their tubes and dug into the substrate others have decided that they want to stay in the brush. Cool little critters
William
 
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esmithiii

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Chris:

Yes everyone has them, and yes, you are special. I do belive they reproduce in the aquarium. As I seem to have many more that I ever started with.

Ernie
 
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