Holy crap

[theyammieguy]

I knew I had bristle worms and I let them be since I read they are good cleaners but oh my god. This is what I saw last night about an hour and a half after turning my lights off. Most of these are at least 3" long. This is my 12g nanocube.

Ignore the apstasia in the fifth picture, its the last one left and I can't reach him. Believe it or not but it's eaten joe's juice about about 3 times.

What eats bristle worms?

 

[sanababit]

wow

sana

 

[theyammieguy]

Thats what I said.
It's funny, cause with the lights on you don't see a single one. I flipped the lights on after I took the pictures and watched them squirm into every crevis imaginable.

 

[100%hydrophylic]

good lord, id be afraid toput my hand in the tank after i saw that.

 

[theyammieguy]

Yeah, sticking my hand in the back of the tank to clean the pump is kinda scary.

 

[olemiss reb]

dottybacks, arrowcrabs eat them. Just feed what your fish can eat and no more, bristleworm numbers will decline accordingly to the amount of food available. There is also a specific trap that can be used to catch them, my LFS sells them. On a side note, the coralife digital thermometers are notoriously inaccurate.

 

[kyrin01]

+ 1 on the arrow crab. it will eat other foods first so your gonna have to decrease the amount of food that goes in. And arrow crabs will kill each other so u can only have 1 at a time. + arrow crabs look sweet!!

 

[drywallninja]

Coral banded shrimp eat them too.They might eat some other things you dont want them too though

 

[SecGenGSX]

WoW thats crazy. I've never seen that many in a tank before. I would try an arrow crab.

 

[sabodish]

heres a trick if you wanna get rid of them..put some food in pair of panty hose and throw it in the tank. the bristles worms will go for the food and get trapped in the panty hose by all those bristles. simply lift out the pany hose the next day and trash it with all the worms..

 

[kyrin01]

wow... that is a REALLY good idea! Great advice! Something everyone can use and without adding more livestock!

 

[Servillius]

heres a trick if you wanna get rid of them..put some food in pair of panty hose and throw it in the tank. the bristles worms will go for the food and get trapped in the panty hose by all those bristles. simply lift out the pany hose the next day and trash it with all the worms..

OH my... Have we just discovered the new fashionable nutrient export system. The Bristleworm Filter?

 

[seafansar]

That's so creepy!

 

[luther1200]

Coral Banded shrimp will go nuts in there. They eat them well.

 

[Felix T Cat]

wow, I suddenly feel MUCH better about my bristleworm population.

 

[theyammieguy]

I've read one thread online about the panty hose but the guy didn't have any luck.

Thanks for the info about the thermometer.

Will a coral banded shrimp get along with a peppermint shrimp?

Could the worms be the reason my galexea is dying? I've only had it about 4 weeks. He was doing great up until a few days ago.

 

[olemiss reb]

CBS will kill the pepp., arrow crab will as well.

 

[theyammieguy]

Ok, thanks. Maybe my LFS will take him back, if I can catch him.

 

[jason18]

Thats crazy its amazing what lives in our tanks lol..

 

[phil519]

Try the manual method of removal - but if you have to add something -an invert as suggested previously would be ideal. I'd suggest a coris wrasse (mine will battle huge bristle worms that are too slow to hide) BUT i am not so sure about putting 3 fish in a 12g.