I'm so annoyed now cause of I have bristle worms from my macro algae, like grape caulerpa and chaeto, my chaeto was mine but grape caulerpa that I took to someone it has a bristle worms and I want to rid of them like how? I have a three tanks with same water together running and one sump so I don't want them to spread everywhere, so the best thing to do is remove all of my macro algae?
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Bristleworms are in many tanks and some find them to be an essential part of a cuc. That said, there are many animals that will eat them. An arrow crab I've heard will do the trick. I've also had good luck with a mystery wrasse eating them.
Bristleworms are a self-replicating CUC that don't harm anything in my tank. I enjoyed watching two of them having a tug of war with an algae wafer recently. Not sure why people hate them so much.
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No matter what you do, you will never rid your tank of bristle worms. You can control the population with wrasses, and certain inverts, but you will never rid your tank of them.
They are an essential part of your CUC. Without them your tank would not survive for very long.
I also am not sure why people hate them so much? I actually find them kind of cute, and love watching them munch down on leftover scraps.
They are an essential part of your CUC. Without them your tank would not survive for very long.
I also am not sure why people hate them so much? I actually find them kind of cute, and love watching them munch down on leftover scraps.
I put them in my main tank at 10 gallon and it came from macro algae, I’m just wondering if they will eat my clownfish pair when they grow bigger? I’m trying to breed them
Okay thanks sir, I’m just curious if they grow much bigger from my 10 gallon tank and might eat my pair of clownfish lol but if they stay small I would be happy, and don’t want them to reach my 20 gallon tank when they grow bigger cause I have a bunch of cute fish over there
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They will only eat a fish if it is already dead. They don't attack and kill anything.
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