Jstn
Member
Background:
About a year ago, i started loosing all my acans and never found the culprit, unit one night after lights out I saw a nasty long worm eating them which quickly retracted into its hole, it was a 1/4" wide and at least 8" long with two antenna and two eyes on its head.
I was able to locate a few of these and remove them, but ultimately reset my tank, cooked the live rock, new sand complete reboot with dipping my corals in bayer from my QT tank.
this is one that crawled out of a live rock after 4 days in fresh water
A comparison of a standard bristle to one of these which I assume after research to be Phyllodocidae worms or some variation.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html
Now a few months late I keep finding babies, 1-2" long and thin as a pencil lead. Every night I can remove 1-3 of these, and it seems after a few weeks they are still popping up and its getting annoying, I want to stop these things before they turn large and reek havoc again.
I need a predator to eat these worm, but there are a few qualifications, these worms are nocturnal exclusively, I NEVER spot them during the day unless I turn over a frag. I have a corris wrasse and mandarine, never made a difference. I am leaning towards a coral banded shrimp or arrowcrab and wanted to hear peoples experience with these for eating worm. I dont have many bristle and I am comfortable in loosing them, I just want these pest gone for good, any ideas or experience you guys could add?
TIA.
About a year ago, i started loosing all my acans and never found the culprit, unit one night after lights out I saw a nasty long worm eating them which quickly retracted into its hole, it was a 1/4" wide and at least 8" long with two antenna and two eyes on its head.
I was able to locate a few of these and remove them, but ultimately reset my tank, cooked the live rock, new sand complete reboot with dipping my corals in bayer from my QT tank.
this is one that crawled out of a live rock after 4 days in fresh water
A comparison of a standard bristle to one of these which I assume after research to be Phyllodocidae worms or some variation.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html
Now a few months late I keep finding babies, 1-2" long and thin as a pencil lead. Every night I can remove 1-3 of these, and it seems after a few weeks they are still popping up and its getting annoying, I want to stop these things before they turn large and reek havoc again.
I need a predator to eat these worm, but there are a few qualifications, these worms are nocturnal exclusively, I NEVER spot them during the day unless I turn over a frag. I have a corris wrasse and mandarine, never made a difference. I am leaning towards a coral banded shrimp or arrowcrab and wanted to hear peoples experience with these for eating worm. I dont have many bristle and I am comfortable in loosing them, I just want these pest gone for good, any ideas or experience you guys could add?
TIA.