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[Snaz]

Originally Posted by fooser

I just dont know what to do wiht the bugger, i dont have a tank for it.

[fooser]

Originally Posted by Snaz

haha i think if i wanted it dead, i could just let it dry up or leave it in the bag it was in and he would run out of air or kill himself in his own ammonia buildup.

but flame thrower method could be a little more exciting !

[untamed]

Was there a specific reason that you had to catch it? Obviously, it had been there for some time before you noticed. I would take him off your hands, but without knowing for sure what species I was getting it would probably be asking for trouble.

I had one for many years that was a vegetarian. He was a pretty useful resident, as long as you could get past his looks.

I think most of them are opportunistic detrivores.

[fooser]

The reason I took him out was because he was eating my reef.
At first it was kind of slow damage so i was going to wait until I moved at the end of the year to get him, but then lately he has been getting really brave at night (maybe because he is getting big and he is totally unopposed). He has been coming out while I am actually standing there (which he never use to do as he would flee the moment it thoguth i was near) and would munch on my SPS. After he took out 3 in about 2 weeks and then my wrasse disapeared, I was fed up and took him out.
So if you were planning to put this in a reef or anything besides a tank for just the worm, I would NOT recomend it.
Oh, but he did not bother my zoas, just SPS. Strange bugger.

[argan]

i had a smallish one, about 5 inches, hopefully he has not grown too much because they are cool looking.

Was yours hard to get out of the rock? did you have to chisel in after him?

[untamed]

An SPS eater....that is unusual. They are just so hard and stony.... Usually, it is the softies that they go after.

Too bad. He's not for me. My tank is mostly SPS but it would have been large enough for him.

[fooser]

Originally Posted by untamed

An SPS eater....that is unusual. They are just so hard and stony.... Usually, it is the softies that they go after.

Too bad. He's not for me. My tank is mostly SPS but it would have been large enough for him.

That is exactly why I did not expect it. My Zoas and LPS were all fine. I thought it was jsut me neglectin gthe tank that some sps started lokoing bad, I didn't suspect there was somethign in my tank until one day i noticed a few of my SPS in one section of the tank were all messed up. Some of them were flipped around and upside down, some were broken and somethat were not flipped had pieces missing off them, and almost all of them on the tips were all rubbed and broken. (if you see these symptoms, better start looking for a worm!!) But maybe mine was just a freak worm who decided to have different tastes. Then my fishwent missing and i knew there was somethign wierd for sure. Then one night i saw him on my SPS .. i think even if he was not eating them, he was on top of thema nd his spikes and huge body rubbingitself on the coral was enough to kill the tissue right off it. Either way, he is NOT reef safe. I am sure the sps had munchingmarks though. Have you ever seen the jawz on those worms.. i almost wanted to throw up when i looked at his face really closely.
...Now that I think about it.. one of my fish that use to sleep over by the worm area suddenly started sleeping on the opposite side of the tank in the corner and i didnt know why.. maybe there was somethign to do with that.