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Posted by Wayne Sallee on April 15, 2006, 10:07 am
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Yep, that will happen. There was a picture once in a
magazine article, and it showed a sun coral with a bristle
worm sticking out of it, and the caption read "sun coral
eating a bristle worm". I had to laugh. I knew what was
really happening in that picture.
Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
Wayne@WaynesPets.com
mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 4/14/2006 10:41 PM:
> OK, something to watch out for;
>
> I've had my corals and anemones for a couple years, and was noticing
> a gradual decline in the health of the critters the past couple months.
> I've also noticed an increase in bristleworms. Finally found the
> correlation: after a few minutes, the worms will gradually emerge
> begin pulling the food (usually small pieces of silversides or shrimp)
> out of the oral disc. Even small worms can get to a piece of food almost
> (but not quite) swallowed by the open brain coral, and some of the
> longer ones can reach almost into the anemone's gullets! Of course,
> the clown can't protect much against that.
>
> So, the solution; feed as normal. Wait a few minutes for the
> worms to emerge, then take some tweezers and flick 'em out. I let
> them drift to another part of the aquarium, where they do their more
> important (to me) jobs of cleaning up garbage, and my corals and
> anemones are recovering quickly.
>
> Again, just FYI.
>
> Mike
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> I've had my corals and anemones for a couple years, and was noticing
> a gradual decline in the health of the critters the past couple months.
> I've also noticed an increase in bristleworms. Finally found the
> correlation: after a few minutes, the worms will gradually emerge
> begin pulling the food (usually small pieces of silversides or shrimp)
> out of the oral disc. Even small worms can get to a piece of food almost
> (but not quite) swallowed by the open brain coral, and some of the
> longer ones can reach almost into the anemone's gullets! Of course,
> the clown can't protect much against that.
>
> So, the solution; feed as normal. Wait a few minutes for the
> worms to emerge, then take some tweezers and flick 'em out. I let
> them drift to another part of the aquarium, where they do their more
> important (to me) jobs of cleaning up garbage, and my corals and
> anemones are recovering quickly.
>
> Again, just FYI.
>
> Mike