on the hunt

while i was gone my wife told me she saw a big bristle worm, well i thought it was only 3 inches or so so i was shoulder deep in water and i found several bristle worms under a few small rocks and if anybody knows me they know i hate bristle worms and i keep a bare minimum so after finding these i turned the lights off and and fed my tank a few sinking pellets waited about 5 min and went back and saw at least 5 or 6 large worms way to large for me so now i am using mark's technique of catching them with bridal veil this may be an all nighter.....grrrr so mad nothing like sitting up all hours of the night trying to catch worms out of your tank...

If you are going for worms can you use fish for bait?

We had better luck with tongs than the trap.  We put a bandana over a flash light, it was a two man job really.  The largest we got was at least 12 inches long and Mark got stuck with the little pokies on it. Hurt for three days.  Then we got a six line,  cut way back on feeding,  and viola!  The wrasse got fat, the worms dissapeared. (So did all baby snails)

Oh yeah.  Nothing will mess with the bigguns.  Even Mark now   The bait we had the most success with came with a worm trap we bought.  It looks like tiny dried krill but I doubt that is what it is.  The people we bought the tank from had a homemade trap they said worked well. We copied it but had little succes so we bought one and had better success with it, but still nothing spectacular.  How come your sixline doesn't eat your snail eggs/babies?  What kind of snails are they?  Maybe I just have the yummy kind. 

i have hundred of the small stomatellas and a few other small hitchhikers that he doesnt mess with. he would much rather eat prepaired foods then the snails.

Or...Leave them alone and let them do their job cleaning up the tank.