on the hunt
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Topic: on the hunt
Posted By: pa_reptileman_4
Subject: on the hunt
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 1:38am
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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... ------------- pitiful guppy tank. shane |
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 7:15am
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Heck with the bridal veil, get out the camera! A good set of tweezers could work too.
Mike -------------  |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 7:15am
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If you are going for worms can you use fish for bait? ------------- |
Posted By: pa_reptileman_4
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 11:07am
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well plan A didnt catch anything but a few small ones i did see the largee ones and they are the biggest i have ever seen in person...so now its on the plan B i cant get the tweezers they dont stay out long enough. so i am thinking something like a one way trap with the cone that points into the holding cage and yada yada yada. we'll see what i can work up.
mike i did use a silverside i had, and i have used mysis shrimp before i think that worked better. ------------- pitiful guppy tank. shane |
Posted By: Andreason
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 11:48am
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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)
Wendy ------------- Andreason's |
Posted By: pa_reptileman_4
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 1:41pm
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i have a 6 line and i dont have real small worms but i have bigger ones that have been hiding for a long long time. and baby snails i have tons of those my six line doesnt bother them. ------------- pitiful guppy tank. shane |
Posted By: Andreason
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 2:29pm
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Oh yeah. Nothing will mess with the bigguns. Even Mark now Wendy ------------- Andreason's |
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. Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 5:37pm
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It sounds like a tough job. I don't think they are too easy to catch.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: pa_reptileman_4
Date Posted: May 28 2008 at 6:03pm
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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. ------------- pitiful guppy tank. shane |
Posted By: Amie
Date Posted: May 29 2008 at 2:16pm
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Sometimes if you place a wad of chaeto algae down by the rock where they are, they will crawl into it to live. Maybe put some food in it as well. Then lift it out, remove them with tweezers and put it back in. ------------- I http://youtube.com/watch?v=FdG-ITxL8ok - LOVE you guys! |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: June 04 2008 at 10:52pm
Or...Leave them alone and let them do their job cleaning up the tank.
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Posted By: pa_reptileman_4
Date Posted: June 04 2008 at 10:54pm
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thats a big negative. like i said if i can see them then they come out, if they would stay hidden back in the rocks there would be no problem. ugly lil buggers and dont they start munching on corals when they get bigger?
plus i have plenty of other things to clean my tank i dont need them. ------------- pitiful guppy tank. shane |