bristle worm infestation

TMow · May 15, 2013

in the past I have removed bristle worms before. But now I find myself literally with a bad infestations of thousands of Bristle worms. everytime I go for a feed they come out of the woodworks, coming out of my rocks and sand. I really don't mind having a few bristle worms for my other fish to pick on and the crabs to eat. but now it just seems to be a problem. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to remove them? I really don't want to go about removing all of the rock and all of the sand and starting over.I have a 75 gallon aquarium with about a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds of live rock. oh yeah and I have black sand about 80 pounds.I don't have a whole lot of corals I have a few polyps and zoos. a couple of anemones. I have had my rock and my aquarium in everything for about 6 years now.

tidus10 · May 15, 2013

arrow crabs eat them, so do six line wrasses... pick the ones out you can, dont break them in half or else they will double..

tidus10 · May 15, 2013

oh and best way to fish for them is to feed your tank, shut off the lights and then use a red bulb and shine it on your tank and you can see them come out of the woodworks...

jbonez · May 17, 2013

Male melanarus wrasse well eat them up..

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Great Barrier Reefer · May 17, 2013

I have seen a coral banded shrimp devour them before.....

Mike J. · May 17, 2013

A Coral Banded Shrimp will get everyone. A lot of bristleworms means a dirty tank. They will only populate up to how much food they have. If there is no food they will eat each other.

Great Barrier Reefer said:
I have seen a coral banded shrimp devour them before.....

joshporksandwich · May 17, 2013

In my tank the cleaner shrimp love them. They make them into little balls and chump them up. When i see any i just grab with tweezers and dangle in front of them