What the heck is this?
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Looks like a plain old bristleworm... harmless detritus eaters but can get out of hand in an overfed tank. Just pick out the big ones and don't over feed or you'll have tons. They feel like fiberglass if you touch them so tweezers to pick them out and gloves to dig around.
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Yea either a bisttle worm or some type of flat worm. You can build custom traps to try to catch them and diminish their numbers. They are a good part of the CUC. As long as you don't touch them or they don't bother the corals (flat worms can bother softies mainly).
Had a 60 gallon tank go a full 76 day fallow and the brsitle worms never even came close to dieing out.
I once pulled some from a rock and put them in tapwater filled container and left them for a week and they were still alive. They're tough and won't die off easily, it's nearly impossible to remove them once established, only maintain. You should consider adding a predator too keep them from becoming an issue. Like a Wrasse
I once pulled some from a rock and put them in tapwater filled container and left them for a week and they were still alive. They're tough and won't die off easily, it's nearly impossible to remove them once established, only maintain. You should consider adding a predator too keep them from becoming an issue. Like a Wrasse
Throw a piece of shrimp wrapped in acrylic mesh, of those of filtration, tied in a nylon thread.
The bristle worms will try to eat it and get stuck in the mesh, so just remove it.
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The bristle worms will try to eat it and get stuck in the mesh, so just remove it.
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Melenarus Wrasse are reef safe, and very veracious eaters. They are one of if not the best fish to stock to deal with a large array of pests.
They eat flat worms, bristle worms, amphipods (they're not a pest but their population needs to be controlled, in my 60g during fallow with no predators my amphipods made quick work of any and all algae)
As a warning melenarus Wrasse may pick at your hermit crabs, mine will ignore snails but does try to pick at the hermits, not my cleaner shrimp however.
A more docile alternative is a leopard Wrasse, they are more friendly and generally are nicer to CuC. Both can be problems it just depends on the fish.
With a clown Tang you may notice agression however Wrasse are usually much faster and more agile than most other fish so, bullying isn't to much of a problem and at worst your Wrasse will burry in the sand and be fairly untouchable.
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Melanaurus wrasses are best for pest control. Really any wrasse will work as long as they are bigger then the tangs or added first. I love pintail wrasses but have never had one due to price tag. I like mccoskers. But real talk anything expect for big wrasses (8"+) or sixline. Sixline wrasses are demons.
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Woodneers
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Would really like one of those red sea screen lids but can't find one. I have egg crate for the time being.
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Woodneers
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That looks like that HVAC filter batting. Am I close?
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Woodneers
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Yeah I could certainly do that but have to find the corner pieces to go around my returns where they enter the tank over the back.
