Ahhh! Napalm them!
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Ah! That’s awful. Mine haven’t started stealing that I know of. I definitely don’t have any predators for them in this tank though. I will be doing lots of night hunting though!!Wow those are huge and I would love to see an arrow crab eat that thing.
I used to have really long bristleworms in my tank and were very difficult to catch out because they would never fully leave their rock being able to stretch across almost my whole tank (a 20g).
I can tell you that mine would dive into acans mouths to eat food I had given and is pretty horrifying to watch and why i started to remove them with tweezers.
Good luck with getting them out!
That’s a good idea! My nephew tried fishing for them yesterday by holding an algae chip with some tweezers outside one of their holes & another set of tweezers in the other hand. They’re quick if you don’t get them right away & amazingly strong.Something simple and cheap I have tried in the past is using something like a small pipe with a piece of pantyhose attached to the other end with some food in it. When the worms go in they get stuck. I have never tried it on ones that size though.
At some point, they grow large enough that they’re just “pets”. Lol that guy is HUGE!!I feel you here! I had a few “bristle pythons” in my tank that have either died off or are much less active now that I’ve backed off on my feeding. I never had any issues with the big guys... only had one bristle worm that I think was a fire worm munch on some zoas. I actually liked the little monsters...
id pick em all up and mail them to me in new jersey lolI’m not sure how I should go about handling these giant guys. I have Bristle SNAKES... I can’t even call these 6-7”+ guys worms. My tank is a 7 month old 13.5 gallon Fluval Evo. These guys only live in one of the 3 rocks (that I know of) because one is a CaribSea LifeRock arch that doesn’t have the kind of holes they like, the other is creating a sort of bridge & is way off the substrate. The substrate is crushed coral, so I’m sure they’re loving that.
They just live in this one large piece of purple live rock. The only corals actually attached to the rock are some GSP and Xenias, so I would not be sad about parting with them. The rock is full, I mean FULL, of anthropods and probably plenty of other types of pods that I see on my glass all the time. I’d miss them but they’ll regenerate from what’s left.
I’m sure you can guess where this is going... do I just throw this rock out? These guys are HUGE. I have seen as many as 4 of them, all about the same size out after the lights go out. I can’t catch them with tweezers because they’re surprisingly strong and fast. I have never seen a single baby bristle worm like I have in another tank. I think these guys are out-competing any competition they might have. One of them is cohabitating with my High Fin Goby and pistol shrimp. They don’t seem to bother each other except that my goby got “bristled” the other day and had a few of them in his face and on top of his head. They’re gone now & he’s fine.
What would you do if you were me?
Reportedly, 6 line wrasses will eat them but you never know if the one you get will eat them or not. I’m sure that other, larger wrasses would pick them off too. These guys could practically wrestle a wrasse lolAre there any fish like a wrasse that will eat them and keep their population under control???
Oh geez! I could send you tons of little ones.id pick em all up and mail them to me in new jersey lol
I would not be concerned by these guys at all, they get bigger the longer they live and they are just cleaning your tank for youReportedly, 6 line wrasses will eat them but you never know if the one you get will eat them or not. I’m sure that other, larger wrasses would pick them off too. These guys could practically wrestle a wrasse lol
That is insane.I feel you here! I had a few “bristle pythons” in my tank that have either died off or are much less active now that I’ve backed off on my feeding. I never had any issues with the big guys... only had one bristle worm that I think was a fire worm munch on some zoas. I actually liked the little monsters
Disgusting.I feel you here! I had a few “bristle pythons” in my tank that have either died off or are much less active now that I’ve backed off on my feeding. I never had any issues with the big guys... only had one bristle worm that I think was a fire worm munch on some zoas. I actually liked the little monsters...
This is a bristleworm nightmare ->That is insane.
jealous, my biggest prize has only made it to 5 inches after a year of many snacksI've never seen a very huge bristle worm like these in my tanks. Maybe 4 inches or so, tops.
I did have a Palolo worm, once, though. He was almost 5 FEET long!