A Coco Worm
 

Nice picture.I have coca worm to it just split into two heads.

Nice worm Sam! Brilliant colors :biggrin:

and look it's even displaying your name in a color pattern on it's feathers :razz: :mrgreen:

Thanks guys. Rich, yeah I am putting watermarks in the middle now because I've been finding my pictures on other people's websites. Some of them even have my copyright watermarks cropped off as it use to be on the bottom right of the image.

Great pic Sam :cool: Do you ever have to target feed them ?

Thats a beautiful worm! Great shot and thanks for sharing!

Chris

Where'd you pick up that beauty? Great pics like always.

Anthony

Hey Ande, I don't think they need to be target fed. Anthony, I got it from Finomenal on sale. It comes in a long tube about a foot long.

http://www.hyperdream.com/samw/reef/...g_8783_std.jpg

Hi sam
Again nice pic as always,just a question though if it's not being target fed what would it be eating,from the size of your tank,will there be enough free floating food to surport a foot long worm in the long term ?.
john

I would imagine they have an extremely low metabolism and probably dont need much food. As well as likely filtering out just about any floating particles and consuming them?

From what I understand, they rely highly on photosynthesis.

I Cant find any info saying they are photosynthetic ?
http://www.marinedepotlive.com/coco-...erdusters.html
plus other sites say they need to be fed.

They probably feed the same way as featherdusters. I dose LiquidLife Bioplankton, LiquidLife Marine Plankton, LiquidLife Coralplankton, Tahaitian Blend, and Oyster Eggs into my tank. The worm should be able to filter it without me having to do anything special in terms of target feeding.

Out of all those it should be able to find one it likes your worm has a better diet than i do lol..how are the oyster eggs by the way i was thinking of trying them out ?.

Hi John.

DT's Oyster eggs are 3,000,000/ml at 40-50 microns.

Liquidlife Coralplankton is a mixture of 3,000/ml 20-200 micron rotifers packed in 6-10 micron Pavlova phytoplankton.

Liquidlife Bioplankton is at 2-16 microns.

So if you think that you need food at 40-50 microns, then Oyster Eggs is the way to go. :smile:


By the way, what is Vancouver's connection to DT's Oyster Eggs? Was it really a biologist in Vancouver that discovered the methodology to extract the eggs?

http://www.dtplankton.com/oystereggs/main.html

"The utilization and availability of oyster eggs as a coral food was first discussed in 2003 with a biologist in Vancouver, BC who had developed methodology to extract the eggs in quantity"


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