[rjs5134]

Originally Posted by eleezy123

OK i have a huge bristleworm problem i mean gigantic there are so many i dont think they have enough room to hide anymore! i have a 27 gallon aquarium with a skunk cleaner shrimp nemo(clownfish) and a sleeper goby there are literally dozens of them that are well over 3" long some longer i dont know what to do i tried the crabs i tried the wrasse i need a surfire cure for this disease!Dont get me wrong i know they keep everything clean but i dont want them ne more there ugly nd wont die!!! i need a surfire way to exterminate them asap !thank you in advance for any help!

As they are scavengers perhaps you are overfeeding your tank allowing them to multiply to epidemic proportions. If they are able to sustain themselves in this quantity there must be enough food on the sand bed. I don't know your feeding regimen, but smaller feedings may help.

[LIBERTY]

cbs ( coral Banded shrip )

[mounter187]

I hear the big worms eat corals? I'm not sure if they're what's messing with my trumpet corals since therir rocks are kind of far from them. Does any one know what kinds of corals they tamper with? I have well over a hundred bristle worms and I really want to move on to bigger and better things with corals. Should I kill them? I don't want to fresh water dunk the live rock since I have feather dusters too. I really, really don't want to add any new fish (i.e 6 line wrasee) since it has taken me 2 years to establish a descent community around the lionfish (only when he is well fed). What should I do and what corals am I gonna have to work around?

[Ninong]

Hi mounter187,




There are several thousand different species of "bristleworms." Can you be more specific?

What exactly do you mean by "big?" How big is big?

What do your bristleworms look like? Can you post a picture?

Most of them are beneficial scavengers, although there are some exceptions. Did your bristleworms come from the the Indo-Pacific or the Atlantic/Caribbean? If they came in on your live rock, where did the live rock come from?



P.S. -- Looks like the photo of the 7" bristleworm (Eurythoe complanata) that I posed in this thread four years ago when it was first started is no longer there due to various software upgrade mishaps, so I'll try to attach it here. That's a beneficial scavenger and 7" is not "big." If your worms look like the attached photo, then leave them alone.

"Big" would be like this: Steve Weast removed a eunicid that was 3/4" diameter by 7-ft long from his aquarium. Eunicids can definitely be a problem, especially when they get to be 7-ft long!

[Future]

Every time I see that I count 6ft. I see 6ft, but everything and everyone says 7ft.

Am I missing a foot somewhere?

Scratch that just seen the 18" part of tail..ha ha