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05-18-2006, 09:43 AM
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Too Busy Fishy
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN
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Worm Hunter
ok ok, I know the drill: - bristle worms are not harmful
- bristle worms are great detrivores
- The numbers will pare back if there's less detritus
- I've always just ignored the bristle worms in MY tank
- etc., etc...
So no point in posting just to tell me I'm on the wrong track with this. I have a LOT of bristle worms. I want the population lowered.
The arrow crab either isn't eating them, or just won't be able to possibly keep up with them...
shrimps? wrasses? cormorants? trained otters? Help! 
What are great bristle worm hunters?
-Ron
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125g display on a 300g system. Soon to be a 220 display on a 400g system.
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05-18-2006, 09:45 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: bloomington
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coralband shrimp will eat the small one. u can trap the big one.
my .02 c
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05-18-2006, 10:06 AM
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Lost in Reeeeef
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The Reeeeef
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siphon them out 
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05-18-2006, 10:18 AM
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Too Busy Fishy
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN
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Originally Posted by HFG
siphon them out
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yes, yes... there IS that...
But what if... oh this is so horrible... but what IF... some teeny part of me... wants to see them torn into tiny pieces and eaten alive?
NOT saying that's the case, mind you... but IF....
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05-18-2006, 10:38 AM
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Co-President
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Eagan
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Originally Posted by thegrimreefer
yes, yes... there IS that...
But what if... oh this is so horrible... but what IF... some teeny part of me... wants to see them torn into tiny pieces and eaten alive?
NOT saying that's the case, mind you... but IF....
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I got a 6 inch Clown Trigger you can borrow. He should put on a good show!!
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05-18-2006, 10:39 AM
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Lost in Reeeeef
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The Reeeeef
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Tweezers + brain + wriggling fireworm = sadistic fun
HTH
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05-18-2006, 11:01 AM
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TCMAS Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: River Falls, WI
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Triggers and Puffers are pretty funny when handling a bristleworm lol.
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05-18-2006, 11:36 AM
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Too Busy Fishy
Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by HFG
Tweezers + brain + wriggling fireworm = sadistic fun
HTH
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This reminds me of a scene from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 
Mmmmm Ceti Eels...
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05-18-2006, 01:09 PM
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acro addict
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: coon rapids
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ok ron what the heck is that!
and if you can borrow a trigger for a week or so it would be a cool fish in the tank for a few dayas anyways. but the other fish would have to be put in a different tank. or that trigger would be a well fed trigger. ha ha ha
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if fed-x and ups had a class action lawsuit brought against them for freight damages this hobby would be alot cheaper!
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05-18-2006, 01:33 PM
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Got Crabs?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Woodbury, MN
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Watching by big tomato clown eat a bristle worm was one of the funniest things that I had ever seen. Just think of the scene with the hot sauce from dumb and dumber. I don't think that I have a single one in my tank right now as my coral banded shrimp I believe decimated them. He is the only thing that comes to mind of why they are gone. If you get a few you want to part with let me know I would like a couple.
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05-18-2006, 01:35 PM
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acro addict
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: coon rapids
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Originally Posted by redwinger
Watching by big tomato clown eat a bristle worm was one of the funniest things that I had ever seen. Just think of the scene with the hot sauce from dumb and dumber. I don't think that I have a single one in my tank right now as my coral banded shrimp I believe decimated them. He is the only thing that comes to mind of why they are gone. If you get a few you want to part with let me know I would like a couple. |
thats funny. some one wanting bristol worms. i bet that was funny watching the clown kind of freak out.
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if fed-x and ups had a class action lawsuit brought against them for freight damages this hobby would be alot cheaper!
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05-18-2006, 01:40 PM
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Got Crabs?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Woodbury, MN
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Shaking back and forth violently and trying to gag it out was comical. The worm was crawling up the rocks and I blew it off with a turkey baster just to see if she would go after it and well of course she did. LOL I miss the worms as they are great detrivores and have never seen them kill anything or disturb any thing in the tank except a stupid hungry fish....
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05-18-2006, 02:34 PM
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Lost in Reeeeef
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The Reeeeef
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LOL I believe the creators of ST modeled that creature off of the ant-lion. I spent a summer in Texas and would keep ant-lions in jars. Pure pleasure feeding them!
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05-19-2006, 03:07 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Minnesota
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Originally Posted by thegrimreefer
shrimps? wrasses? cormorants? trained otters? Help!
What are great bristle worm hunters?
-Ron |
I enjoy your sense of humor! I got a kick out of the cormorants and otters.
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05-19-2006, 03:19 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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Originally Posted by thegrimreefer
This reminds me of a scene from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Mmmmm Ceti Eels... |
That was a wicked scene!!!!! 
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