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01-01-2008, 07:42 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central, FL
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|  Anyone know about Christmas Tree Worms?
I got this Christmas Tree Coral, so it was sold to me as.....looks nothing like a Christmas Tree Coral. So, I started researching the internet and found that it was called Christmas Tree Worm Rock. I have seen these called SPS corals requiring high lighting and also that they like shaddy spots under ledges. Can anyone tell me the preferences of this critter? That brown stuff in the picture is kinda hard like some SPS corals. I have had it on the bottom and the top of my tank, haven't noticed much difference. However, it is a great indicator of stress as it develops this thin layer of film on it and then releases it as it calms down. Really weird critter! 
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Established October 2006
120g acrylic, 2-250w MH, 4-65w actinic, saddle & tomatoe clowns, naso & yellow tang, cleaner shrimp, LT & carpet anemone, deresa & crocea clam, green bubble, white bubble, christmas tree worms, green star/blue clove/yellow polyps, asst. zoas, mushrooms, frogspawn, brain coral, ricordias, toadstool leather, colt | 
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01-01-2008, 07:47 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Wow thats a nice piece you got there, my LFS only sells em 1 to a rock. They are tube worms and filter feed, so they arent photosynthesetic, but they look much better under any kind of light, lol. _________  | |
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01-02-2008, 09:24 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Very pretty!
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12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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01-02-2008, 09:42 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
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That looks awesome.... | |
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01-02-2008, 10:42 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Awesome find....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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01-02-2008, 10:47 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Christmas tree worms are almost always found in porites corals (like yours are) so it is the coral that needs the intense lighting. If the coral dies, the worms will follow suit shortly thereafter. Get yourself some live phytoplankton to feed the worms. | |
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01-02-2008, 11:13 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CT Age: 31
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Only sell them one to a rock? How does your LFS get the worms to pack up and go populate single family rocks?
The worms unfortunately won't last very long more than likely. A few months, perhaps you'll get a little more. Then you're left with the brown rock. Target feeding them will definitely add to their life expectancy but don't expect miracles.
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01-02-2008, 11:15 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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You've never had any luck with them JP? | |
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01-02-2008, 11:22 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CT Age: 31
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Nope, always end up dieing. Living long term seems to be the exception rather than the rule. | |
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01-02-2008, 11:50 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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I only tried them once when I was still a newb so I assumed it was my lack of husbandry skills that killed them. Shame they're so hard to keep because they really are pretty. | |
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