bristleworms are no longer welcome.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by rcipema

There were at least 100 of them.

Bob, that is good and it is a sign of a tank that will handle a fish dieing with no problems as the worms will consume it befor it can do any dammage.

Originally Posted by rcipema

In my 50 I never see any. The difference was I have two big fat Cleaner Shrimp in there. The shrimp either eat them, or scare them so they stay in the sand where they belong.

you know.. I have 2 cleaner shrimp and 3 peppermint shrimp in my 94 gal, I have seen them all eat worms but I still have hundreds of worms at night (or if I feed the tank) the difference being I ran the tank for about 3 months and encouraged worm growth befor I put the shrimp in.. I agree that the shrimp eat the worms but I do not thing that they could wipe out a large established worm stock with only 2.. I think it is more likely that you put the shrimp in befor the worms were established.

just for the record I can put some fish food in my tank and with in 3 min I cannot count the amount of worms that appear.. but any other time you have to look rather hard to find one.. I have also put a large oyster (bought from the store) in the tank and the next morning the shell was clean and I have never been able to detect any nitrates or anthing.. as a cleaner/scavanger I don't think anything will compare to the efficiency of bristle worms and unless you have one of the preditory types (which are very very rare in home aquaria) there growth should be encouraged.

Bob, I know you will type some smart a$$ reply to this as you think the world would be a better place with out my opinions so ignore it as this is for other people that might be interested in moderen ideas/methodology not the ideas that were good in the 60's

Oh I hid a few spelling mistakes in here see how long it takes you to find them.

Steve