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| Copper Band Butterfly |
   
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6 | 8.00% |
| Six Line Wrasse |
  
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19 | 25.33% |
| Bristle worm trap |
  
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3 | 4.00% |
| Reduce feeding |
  
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10 | 13.33% |
| Emerald Crab |
  
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2 | 2.67% |
| Arrow Crab |
  
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12 | 16.00% |
| Coral Banded Shrimp |
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14 | 18.67% |
| Other fish (please post type after voting) |
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3 | 4.00% |
| Other crab (please post type after voting) |
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2 | 2.67% |
| Other shrimp (please post type after voting) |
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4 | 5.33% |
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#21
10-10-2008, 02:13 PM
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I have a purple legged CBS in with my 4 pepermints and 2 cleaner shrimp and have had no problems. I also still have worms in the tank and I have a 6 lne and a yellow coris wrasse, and some sort of dotty back as well yellow body with a durple cap on top.
The fish are fairly small right now but hopefully they will start to make a dent in the population. Tanks a 75gal.
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10-10-2008, 10:35 PM
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I had a cleaner shrimp that hunted worms continuously (and with great vigour). Between that and the Copperbanded Butterfly they were held firmly in check.
If I saw a 10-inch worm I'm thinking I would kill it just because... gives me the willys. That one thread with the 3-footer in the piping almost made me gag.
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#23
10-11-2008, 02:51 AM
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Just yesterday I observed one of my cleaner shrimp haul what I believe was a bristle worm out of a crevice in the rock and make short work of it. Never really paid much attention to bristle worms before or worried about controlling them. I've seen a number of them on occasion but all were quite small.
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#24
10-13-2008, 03:48 AM
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I put a decorator crab in my 80gal reef just because I liked him. Imagine my surprise when I saw him about a week later walking around with a 5" bristle worm hanging out of his mouth like a piece of spaggetti. Before the crab you would see al least one or two every night after the moon lights came on. Now all I see are tiny ones if I ever see them.
Hope this helps.
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10-14-2008, 02:26 AM
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I have best luck with a spiny blue lobster (the ones without craws), it cleared my 120G tank of any bristle worms. However make sure your frags are mounted securely as it comes out at night to poke into holes to find bristle worms
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#27
11-06-2008, 08:39 AM
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Here are some bristleworm videos.
eating a zoa polyp: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...02926867&hl=en spawning: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...49296009&hl=en group video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...71029957&hl=en
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