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03/08/2006, 03:32 PM | #1 |
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cleaner shrimp and fireworms
anyone ever had their cleaner shrimp search out and eat fireworms? I observed one of my cleaner shrimp eating a 1" long fireworm the other evening after lights out and thought that it found a dead one but the very next evening I was watching him and he was poking around under the edges of my live rock and he pulled another one out of the sand and I watched as it spent 5 minutes eating that one also. I have never seen a cleaner go after fireworms has anyone else.
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03/08/2006, 03:40 PM | #2 |
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I never have, but consider yourself lucky! The only critter I have seen eating worms was my sixline and that was tiny bristleworms that where unwise enough to come out when the lights where on.
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03/08/2006, 06:37 PM | #3 |
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I'd love to have my cleaner shrimp live off worms in my tank. I have a ton of them already.
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03/08/2006, 06:41 PM | #4 |
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I found it quite amusing to watch when it catches one it spends about 1-2 minutes spining it around almost as if it was trying to stay away from the hairs.
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03/08/2006, 06:56 PM | #5 |
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Yup, I've seen my cleaner and my old peppermints do that. Quite interesting watching them ripe them into pieces and eating them.
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03/08/2006, 11:03 PM | #6 |
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So six-line wrasses and shrimps eat bristleworms???
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Yes, but only the small worms. They will not eat the big ones. They keep the worm population in check though by eating all the small ones. I never see any in my tank, although I know there are some in the rocks.
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03/09/2006, 11:57 AM | #9 |
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Arrow crabs eat bristle worms also... saw mine dig in the sand and pull them out. Quite entertaining watching the crab brace himself on a rock and pull with both "hands"
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03/10/2006, 11:09 AM | #10 |
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Before I got my sixline, I could see bristleworms at all times. Now I never see any.
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03/10/2006, 11:21 AM | #11 |
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Before I got my sixline, I could see bristleworms at all times. Now I never see any.
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02/27/2016, 08:03 PM | #12 |
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What are the long, white worms in the tank. Look like they come out of little holes. Almost slightly transparent. What eats those?
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03/01/2016, 04:34 PM | #13 |
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Cleaner shrimps are opportunists. They will get their hands on anything they can grab including those christmas worms. I eyewitnessed cleaner shrimps ambushed the beautiful christmas worms after lights off, and eat them.
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