How to DESTROY bristleworms ??

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Coasting

I can lend you a pair of 8" bristle worms They should out compete the little ones for food no problem

i got a few in my sump that are about 20-24" and 1" thick lol

[Coasting]

Originally Posted by reefwars

i got a few in my sump that are about 20-24" and 1" thick lol

I think I will have to name my guys when they get that big.

[TimT]

Yeh, sumps are a great place for bristle worms. I had a 3 footer in my sump once. Scared the wife so bad she quit helping. Lol.

Bristleworms give me the creeps ever since a guy told me about the kind that burrow into your arm and then go for your heart. Then he told me I had one on my arm and I have never moved so fast. He started ROFLing and I just about killed him for the bad joke. That was 20 years ago so no one knew too much about bristleworms.

[Proteus]

Lol. Awesome joke to play

[reefwars]

tonight im going to stick a large 2 footer on the girlfriends pillow lol......anyone have somewhere i can stay for a few days afterwards lol :P:P:P

[Proteus]

Doubt you would have a girl after that. Lol

[windcoast reefs]

I watch my Christmas wrasse eat them all the time. Usually anything under 2", but then again he seems to eat every invert in sight, except snails and he is pretty big. But I really could care less about having them in the tank. They I've never had them hurt anything.

Anyways good luck killing them all, I don't think there is any possibility of getting rid of them all.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by windcoast reefs

I watch my Christmas wrasse eat them all the time. Usually anything under 2", but then again he seems to eat every invert in sight, except snails and he is pretty big. But I really could care less about having them in the tank. They I've never had them hurt anything.

quite a few wrasses will eat smaller ones, alot of other fish try but just end up wih a prickly beard lol :P:P

[windcoast reefs]

Originally Posted by reefwars

quite a few wrasses will eat smaller ones, alot of other fish try but just end up wih a prickly beard lol :P:P

Lol yeah some of my wrasses have done that before after watching the Christmas wrasse! He is almost 7" so he seems to be able to take most on! Fun to watch him hunting, I'm amazed how quick he finds them.

Even after all this time there are still lots in the tank, pretty much an endless cycle.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by windcoast reefs

Even after all this time there are still lots in the tank, pretty much an endless cycle.

imo, its a healthy part of an ecosystem , i believe when you remove things like this you do more harm then good, as bad as it hurts to have the bristles get you, they are 100% beneficial to your tank.

if someone doubts how good they are then overfeed like crazy....the fact that they reproduce very fast in tanks over fed easily means they are consuming the food sources.

fwiw...bristle worms do jobs and get places that no other cuc can get at