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- 12-31-2001, 09:25 PM #1Mayor
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What eats bristleworms
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"...and regular fish like tangs."
Tangs and what else? Any Pseudochromis spp. (Dottybacks)?
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- 12-31-2001, 11:30 PM #3Governor
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I swear that Tangs'll eat anything. Mine do.
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- 01-01-2002, 02:04 AM #4Mayor
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Two Yellow Tangs, Blue-Cheeked Goby, Yellow Watchman Goby, Red Hawk Fish, Small Mandarin Dragonet
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Although they are not know to eat bristleworms it has been my experience that the Red Hawk (Flamehawk) will eat bristleworms.
This has been my direct experience with my tanks. I have one tank that is teeming with bristleworms. My tang and psychedilic mandarin goby won't touch the worms. When I kept a flamehawk in the same tank the worm population was kept at a minimum for over two years.
My vote would be the flamehawk...
HTH ,
Greg
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My spotted hawk also eats bristtle worms as does my pink spotted goby.
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