Eunicid Worm remove or....

hillegom · #1 02-19-2011, 04:55 PM

If you are losing zoas I would cap it. After a time (a day? a week?) the oxygen should have been depleted by the worm. Could you then fish it out of the pipe somehow?

24storm · #2 02-19-2011, 05:05 PM

The PVC has small holes everywhere for zipties so it not runn out of oxygen. And the structure is quite large with lots of bends so fishing it out would be pretty tough.

hillegom · #3 02-19-2011, 05:08 PM

I do not have any experience with these worms, never having had one. Maybe you can trap him somehow.

untamed · #4 02-19-2011, 05:58 PM

I've also kept a few different species of Eunicid and quite enjoyed their antics. I've never kept zoas, though... I would still attempt to catch him in the act before deciding to rid the tank of him.

I suspected that one of mine was eating xenia...but that was a good thing at the time.

Funky_Fish14 · #5 02-19-2011, 05:08 PM

If you are losing zoos, well, it could just be your water, but could be the worm too.

I kind of agree with Capping it... but man... I dont know how you'd know after how long? And what if you were to just leave the caps on? Waterflow /nutrient release from it would be darn slow... you might get some ammonia... but you also have a very large water volume you said...

Some eunicids are just detrivores too... I've 'kept' 2, one was a detrivore... 23" long unstretched, lived in a 75 for awhile and when I took the tank apart a year later i never found it and I never had any nutrient spikes? so im guessing it died and did not cause a problem.

Maybe try popping a zoo colony in an obvious place and see what happens to it? (watch it overnight a few times)

Cheers,

Chris