- Location
- Eastern Long Island
I have two medium sized rocks, in a small Acan/Blasto/Filter Feeder tank. I wasnt 100% sure at first, but now I know, these monsters are causing alot of problems. Not only do they come out and eat what Ive fed the corals, but they are also eating some of the croal, they just gotta be. Now Ive heard and believed, bristleworms are good things.. maybe for a different envirnoment, I know theyve helped breakdown anything that settles.
But the problem is, the green "Bristeworm trap" is just too small for these f'rs. one time a worm extended from his rock some 9 inches, with still more worm in the rock.. I said this is it, my chance to grab him lol. Bad Idea! I got impaled with about a dozen spikes.
My question is.. anyone know how to make an extra large apparatus to trap (i think there 4-5 that are just too big) some worms that are inhabiting 2 rocks. I can take the rocks out, thats np. Ive heard people do that and add something to kill em. But then I have their corpses rotting inside the rock for god knows how long. Plus I wanted to catch them alive. I have plans for another tank where I think they will be very helpful.
Another question is.. can those things eat Clove Coral? I had a nicely populating grouping of cloves growing out of one of the rocks where the hugest ones live. Within the past two weeks theyve shriveld to nothing, having done nothing at all but doing extra, highest quality possible water changes. The same thing is happening to a once tiny 2 head green acan frag that had grown beautifully on that rock into 5-6 heads in a year. Now a couple polyps are barely hangin on. The worms have gotta have soemthing to do with that as Ive seen the bastids crawling all over it, trying to steal it's food.
On a side note, I realize now that I'll never stop learning about this wonderful world of reefkeeping. The ocean is so complex there will always be something new to encounter.
But the problem is, the green "Bristeworm trap" is just too small for these f'rs. one time a worm extended from his rock some 9 inches, with still more worm in the rock.. I said this is it, my chance to grab him lol. Bad Idea! I got impaled with about a dozen spikes.
My question is.. anyone know how to make an extra large apparatus to trap (i think there 4-5 that are just too big) some worms that are inhabiting 2 rocks. I can take the rocks out, thats np. Ive heard people do that and add something to kill em. But then I have their corpses rotting inside the rock for god knows how long. Plus I wanted to catch them alive. I have plans for another tank where I think they will be very helpful.
Another question is.. can those things eat Clove Coral? I had a nicely populating grouping of cloves growing out of one of the rocks where the hugest ones live. Within the past two weeks theyve shriveld to nothing, having done nothing at all but doing extra, highest quality possible water changes. The same thing is happening to a once tiny 2 head green acan frag that had grown beautifully on that rock into 5-6 heads in a year. Now a couple polyps are barely hangin on. The worms have gotta have soemthing to do with that as Ive seen the bastids crawling all over it, trying to steal it's food.
On a side note, I realize now that I'll never stop learning about this wonderful world of reefkeeping. The ocean is so complex there will always be something new to encounter.
