Baby Bristleworm Eradication

[living_tribunal]

Unfortunately no, gave him to a friend among other fish. That 75 gallon was taken down when we bought a new house and had our son. The mandarin now resides in a 365 gallon paradise. We will have another one day. Had that mandarin from a baby, between 8-10 years if I can remember correctly. He ate out of the same corner every day.

That’s a mandarin success story if I’ve ever heard one! 8-10 years is great. It’s good to hear he’s still doing well in his new home.

 

[DSC reef]

That’s a mandarin success story if I’ve ever heard one! 8-10 years is great. It’s good to hear he’s still doing well in his new home.

I had my trial and errors with them. You learn a lot over the years.

 

[drcole]

My plan is to get one that is eating frozen, supplement with pods, as well as baby brine shrimp. I do not have a culturing setup for pods, but was hoping one eating frozen already I could get away with. I planned to do one of the 3d printed feeding setups that have been featured here.

 

[living_tribunal]

My plan is to get one that is eating frozen, supplement with pods, as well as baby brine shrimp. I do not have a culturing setup for pods, but was hoping one eating frozen already I could get away with. I planned to do one of the 3d printed feeding setups that have been featured here.

I’d be careful with that plan. Many have tried that and it’s a very risky thing to bank on.

Even the ones that do eat frozen might not survive on it and continually search for pods. It’s best to start with a pod colony for mandarin and then slowly work them into eating other foods.

 

[stanleo]

I've had my tank for 9 months and I am planning mostly around getting a mandarin. As such, I have a refugium teaming with all kinds of pods and I am still waiting for another two months to make sure there will be enough for him to eat. Start the plan now, get a refugium or some other way of introducing pods daily to the tank. In all my research on mandarins I have found that this is not a fish that you "hope for the best". In fact, I have found that even those that dedicate all this work to them still fail at keeping them.

 

[Mical]

6 line wrasse will "hoover them out" - then you'll have a very fat 6 line wrasse.

 

[living_tribunal]

I've had my tank for 9 months and I am planning mostly around getting a mandarin. As such, I have a refugium teaming with all kinds of pods and I am still waiting for another two months to make sure there will be enough for him to eat. Start the plan now, get a refugium or some other way of introducing pods daily to the tank. In all my research on mandarins I have found that this is not a fish that you "hope for the best". In fact, I have found that even those that dedicate all this work to them still fail at keeping them.

I’m doing the same thing myself right now.

I plan on getting a mandarin 6 months from now for my 65g. My sump is 30g and the fuge is 15g.

I dose 5,000 pods every two weeks and feed phytoplankton daily. I have no filter feeders or fish/inverts that eat plankton other than amphipods.

I’m also starting 4 external cultures, 2 tisbe, 2 tigger.

I will not get a mandarin until I can sustain 4 cultures reliably. There’s no way I’ll be able to keep him alive if I can’t.

 

[Tilor]

Ok guys, returned to saltwater reefing about a year and a half ago. I hadn’t done it since I was a teenager And I’m now 48. I’ve heard and been told the pluses of having bristleworms which is why I have them in 2 tanks. Everything was great for a long time but now they are stinging and attempting to kill my anemones. I had some beautiful orange and rose bubbletips that are completely pitiful looking now. They have lost most of their color but I’ve gotten rid of a bunch of the worms but there are still some hiding in my live rock. I can usually only find them when I’m feeding the tank and I try to catch them but they are quick and seem to squirm free from my tweezers. I do sometimes get them out in pieces but still takes a lot and I keep seeing small ones appear. When they get big though they are a real pain. Other than the couple of fish that were referenced in a couple of prior posts do you have any other suggestions? I’m about at the point of busting up my live rock and or trying to remove my important inhabitants so I can then bleach the rock and kill them.

 

[DSC reef]

I would try to post a few pics of the worms to get an ID, you might be dealing with a fireworm, not a bristleworm. I do agree if they got to big I'd remove one here and there.