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07-22-2008, 09:10 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Redmond OR Age: 35
Posts: 685
| Bristle worms After doing yet more reading I know that a six line wrasse and a four line wrasse are great for eating bristle worms and flat worms. What other fish or critters eat them? |
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07-22-2008, 09:22 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,778
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Originally Posted by cannedmulder After doing yet more reading I know that a six line wrasse and a four line wrasse are great for eating bristle worms and flat worms. What other fish or critters eat them?  | Also hell on bristle worms: Dottyback, Wrasse of the Halichoeres family, Bird Wrasse (Gomphosus varius), Maori Wrasse (Cheilinus oxycephalus), Sunset Wrasse (Thalassoma lutescens), Arrow Crab (Stenorhynchus setrcornis)...
Also CB Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)
Let us know what you come up with.
Good luck! _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") |
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07-22-2008, 09:23 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Redmond, Or Age: 48
Posts: 196
| Also leopard wrasse and possum wrasse. |
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07-22-2008, 09:25 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 752
| And you want to get rid of your bristles...why????? I find them very beneficial...... _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA |
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07-22-2008, 09:40 PM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Redmond OR Age: 35
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| I would not like to get rid of all of them but the ones I have a getting huge. I don't want to have an overload of them! |
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07-22-2008, 09:43 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 752
| Unless you have PVC for them to live in, you shouldn't worry. How old is your tank? |
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07-22-2008, 09:48 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Redmond OR Age: 35
Posts: 685
| Can I keep an Arrow crab in with a Sally Lightfoot and cleaner shrimp? |
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07-22-2008, 09:49 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Redmond OR Age: 35
Posts: 685
| Not very old and I know I am going to get yelled at when I say this.......1.5 months. Go ahead and yell. I know it isn't very old! And I shouldn have to worry! |
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07-22-2008, 10:01 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 752
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Originally Posted by cannedmulder Not very old and I know I am going to get yelled at when I say this.......1.5 months. Go ahead and yell. I know it isn't very old! And I shouldn have to worry! | 6 weeks is cycled! What do you have in it now? |
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07-22-2008, 10:18 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Redmond OR Age: 35
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| I have 3 pajama cardinals, 1 marron clown (much smaller than my), False Purc clown, 1 convict tang (named Luke), 1 diamond Goby, 1 sally lightfoot crab, 2 cleaner shrimp, snails and hermit crabs, Oh I just got a pistol shrimp but havent seen him since I put him in the tank Sunday. Several frags of different corals. |
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