Just bought a nano with BRISTLE WORMS HELP
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If his mouth can fit around it, he'll tear it into smaller pieces. The arrow crab would be an interesting crab to see putting his small arms in there to drag it out, but not sure, I've only heard, and not seen or experienced first hand.islandcreation said:
The wrasse on the other hand are always hunting and nipping at anything resembling a worm :0)
islandcreation
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Steven so a 6 line would be able to stay in a 5 gallon? I know you said yes but just want to confirm it. Funny you said that about arrow crab. My LFS said he heard that they eat bristles and was going to capture a bristle to feed it to the arrow, but there was about 4-5 people needing help so I said don't worry about it. ha,ha,ha I feel the arrow looks way to big for a 5 gallon since its so lankey! :mrgreen:
Hey,
I have a little trick ya can try for the bristle worm. I had a huge one (bout 6 inches..big enough for me to call huge) in my tank a early in its life and it gave me the willies as well.
This actually worked the first night I tried it. I just took a piece of pantyhose like they have for women to try on shoes at the shoe store. Added 1/2 a piece of raw shrimp into the hose and tied it up in the end. Take the loose end of the hose and lay it around the tied up shrimp so the worm will have to crawl over the hose to get to the shrimp. The worm gets all tangled up and cang get free..
A guy at work told me it would work and it did quite nicely. I did get a wierd look from the meat guy when I asked for 1 shrimp.
I have a little trick ya can try for the bristle worm. I had a huge one (bout 6 inches..big enough for me to call huge) in my tank a early in its life and it gave me the willies as well.
This actually worked the first night I tried it. I just took a piece of pantyhose like they have for women to try on shoes at the shoe store. Added 1/2 a piece of raw shrimp into the hose and tied it up in the end. Take the loose end of the hose and lay it around the tied up shrimp so the worm will have to crawl over the hose to get to the shrimp. The worm gets all tangled up and cang get free..
A guy at work told me it would work and it did quite nicely. I did get a wierd look from the meat guy when I asked for 1 shrimp.
Yeah, the tie is to make sure something else can't get to the shrimp or a lucky catch by the bristle. The key is to make sure its body comes in contact with the hose on its way to the shrimp. To be honest...my shrimp only stayed in the tank about 30 minutes before I had the critter. May even tie a string to it to pull it up without chancing an accidental touch.
Good Luck!!!
Good Luck!!!
islandcreation
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I just called around to my local LFS and one of the main LFS here said 6 lines won't eat bristle worms. :?: He said he general carrys them but he's all out. He stated their on order. So.... The LFS is probably one of the highest regarded LFS here in my county.... Then again I'd be very disappointed in buying a fish that won't do the job that it was suppose to do :roll: I just wanted to make sure more than one individual saw their 6/12 line eat a bristle worm, rather than going with one individuals wrasse. Just confused now... :mrgreen:
islandcreation
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Semo the only thing is that its small nano 6 gallon with a 13 pound rock! I have some mushrooms, small frags and a small feather duster. I'm scared of the panty hose being to big cause there are alot of bristle worms I want out. Actually just the big ones! :mrgreen: Hope it works for Eddy... cause I saw his aquascape and if it works for him it might acutally work for me. Thanks again!
EDGRAY
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well the information that dragon79 is true cause normaly six line eat anything with the shape of worm or something here is the info that liveaquaria privides about them....islandcreation said:
It will search for live foods in the form of small crustaceans such as pyramidellid snails (clam parasites), urchins, and commensal flatworms. Six Line Wrasse are also known to feed on unwanted pests on live rock, such as bristleworms.
and sometimes well all the time dont trust your LFS cause they dont know what they are talking about once in awhile they no alot but not normally so whatever they say first verify with you nano friends and do search so you know the truth...
eddy
EDGRAY
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are you talking about me guys..... talking in my back haa :fu j/kSemo said:hey island...check back with EDGRAY tomorrow morning and see what he catches tonight....I don't know if it was just dumb luck but I caught mine pretty quick...cheap too...the grocery store gave me the single shrimp..I guess it didn't register enough on the scale or something..
anyways im on it now first the panty was floating cause my flow is really strong so it wouldn't settle in the LS so i placed it close were the colony of bristle worms are located but is not attracting nothing but hermits,crabs my fish but not bristles im gonna wait till 10pm see what happens.. no luck jet and has been 30min..
EDGRAY
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I do respect them and they know me cause i go all the time but i never ask them that much only a guy on saturdays that used to be here in nanotank.com then i just pay attention and im like yeah yeah but i always do my search and also ask here to see if that was true or not....but is really hard to trust your lfs....
EDGRAY
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:sad: No luck guys :sad: :sad: but i got one small one cause he was tu busy on looking the panty that he didnt realize i was next to him with a tiwzer so i caught him... and then i got lucky that night cause other small ones were crowling on my RED GRAPE KELP so i got other 2 so in a night 3 small ones ... a progress... :lol: :lol: