Smart Bristle Worm [Archive] - Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

Samw

01-23-2003, 03:43 PM

These traps are useless. They're too small to catch bristle worms. I thought I had this worm caught but even as it got close to the bait, most of its body was still outside the trap. It simply backed out of the trap once it realized that it was a trap. :)

http://www.hyperdream.com/~samw/reef/BristleWorm/132-3280_img_std.jpg

http://www.hyperdream.com/~samw/reef/BristleWorm/132-3282_img_std.jpg

Dresden

01-23-2003, 09:48 PM

why are you trying to catch it?

Aquattro

01-23-2003, 10:07 PM

I was also curious about that. Did you catch it being a bad worm?

Samw

01-23-2003, 10:44 PM

Got too many of them. Most are small but this one is too big for my liking. Read about people getting cut or bitten by them when they move their liverock around.

StirCrazy

01-23-2003, 10:48 PM

Got too many of them. Most are small but this one is too big for my liking. Read about people getting cut or bitten by them when they move their liverock around.

leave the rock alone :wink: i leave my monsters in there, just watch when you grab thing.. i haven't had a problem at all and i got tons of them.

Steve

EmilyB

01-24-2003, 12:04 AM

You kind of get immune to the bites after a while..... :roll: :lol:

BC_Grl

01-24-2003, 02:05 AM

What eats them?

Aquattro

01-24-2003, 02:12 AM

Sam, if you do catch it, bring it to the meeting. I'll give it a home.

Samw

01-24-2003, 04:51 AM

You got it Brad. Its a good thing you told me that you wanted it alive! :) I had a new plan to catching it quick which involves an algae scraper but then I wouldn't be able to give it to ya in one piece. :) Now I need a non-lethal strategy.

EmilyB

01-24-2003, 04:55 AM

Get a new nylon stocking. Put in some food. Lay under a rock.

:lol: :lol:

Aquattro

01-24-2003, 05:02 AM

Sam, generally by cutting the worm, you get two worms. Not a good strategy :P

Samw

01-24-2003, 05:06 AM

Sam, generally by cutting the worm, you get two worms. Not a good strategy :P

Ah, thanks for the tip with the stocking Deb.

Actually Brad, the scraper would have been used to hold it down while I used a pair of tongs to pick it up.

Dresden

01-24-2003, 06:00 AM

I'm happy to see large ones in my tank now. CC seems to keep them tiny.

Bob I

01-26-2003, 06:53 PM

I think for the trap to work the worm needs to be away from the rock. When they poke out from the rock they like to keep their back end in the rock. Then they seem to stretch for miles. 8)

Tau2301

01-27-2003, 12:39 AM

I use a turkey blaster (not a typo) to suck em up.