What is the best method to trap brittle worms ?

BlueWorldAquatic · #1 07-26-2011, 04:05 AM

Use Krill, it works the best for me.

Make a trap out of a 2oz plastic container and lid like you would get for condiments from a fast food restraunt. Cut the lid with an "X" like the lid of a beverage cup for the straw. Push it in lightly so the "X" is pointing inwards. The night before you insert the trap, spot feed the fish, this way the worms will come out more cuz they are hungry.

Worked for me... Second choice is a coral banded shrimp, an Melenarous wrasses, and arrow crabs.

Ken - BWA

Madreefer · #2 07-26-2011, 04:11 AM

Put a peice of UNCOOKED shrimp in a nylon. The bristtle worms go in and cant get out.
http://www.aquariumlighting.com/reta...faf640ab20d29f
These work as well, i just put dry fish food in it as bait

HL649 · #3 07-26-2011, 02:15 PM

If you catch any, I'll take them all.

dsaundry · #4 07-26-2011, 03:49 PM

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stop feeding your tank so much and the numbers will drop

+++++++1

reef93 · #5 07-27-2011, 12:29 AM

WOW ... I should have asked you guys a long time ago, tonight I am going to try every single tip from your advice and let's see how many of them I can harvest in the next couple days

And I am going to chop them into a thousand pieces, not by toilet flushing

... so to HL649, don't even think that I will send any of them to you.

msjboy · #6 07-27-2011, 02:45 AM

isn't there a cheap Coralife Trap'Em. Supposedly works.. read the reviews at Marinedepot.com site on the item. i believe it's available locally...

msjboy

reef93 · #7 07-27-2011, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by msjboy

isn't there a cheap Coralife Trap'Em. Supposedly works.. read the reviews at Marinedepot.com site on the item. i believe it's available locally...

msjboy

I have had one but it never worked for me. They ate the food and were gone before I checked in the morning. I bought it at King Ed, you can check there.

isaac1 · #8 07-29-2011, 01:03 AM

i bought a mantis trap from big als and baited it with shrimp and garlic suppliment no matnis but there was a bunch of worms in it lol

whatcaneyedo · #9 07-30-2011, 04:55 PM

I have a lot more than a hundred at the moment and they've been a part of my tank's ecosystem since 2004. The only issue I've ever had with them is that I've been stung a few times which for me has been about as bad as a mosquito bite. Because of the bristle worms, mini brittle stars, stomatella snails and other varieties of smaller snail I nearly have tank that manages without a store-bought cleanup crew. In fact all I have that was store bought is a cucumber, two abalone, a limpet and an astrea in a 230gal system.

reef93 · #10 07-28-2011, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueWorldAquatic

Use Krill, it works the best for me.

Make a trap out of a 2oz plastic container and lid like you would get for condiments from a fast food restraunt. Cut the lid with an "X" like the lid of a beverage cup for the straw. Push it in lightly so the "X" is pointing inwards. The night before you insert the trap, spot feed the fish, this way the worms will come out more cuz they are hungry.

Worked for me... Second choice is a coral banded shrimp, an Melenarous wrasses, and arrow crabs.

Ken - BWA

I actually started to make a container trap last night because I couln't find the right one the night before. And guess what I got this morning ... a worm almost 10 inches long with a half inch width, plus another 4 fatty ones 6 inches long inside my trap

A total of 5 from my harvesting. I caught the 10 inch that was themostwantedbiggestbugger living inside my rock right in front of the tank. It really makes my day, Ken

Thank you so much, thank you ... I will continue to do that until all of them are gone. The next step is I am going to find a nylon material to add more traps for some small places too.