Recommend a fish to keep spaghetti worms in check

[bkelley02]

Yeah, I know it sounds strange, but I have a spaghetti worm problem. They are taking over the tank and not just in the gravel, they're in the rocks and working their way into/under the flesh of some LPS. Any suggestions on what I can get to help keep them in check and under control that won't eat my coral as well? I have a mixed reef. :(

Thanks for any suggestions.

Brian

[small alien]

Sounds freaky. Don't let 'em get under your eyelids!

[AuroraDrvr]

I have heard of Yellow [Coris] Wrasses eating them, but I can't confirm, as I have never owned a Yellow Wrasse.

[bkelley02]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13816690#post13816690 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by small alien
Sounds freaky. Don't let 'em get under your eyelids!

:p Yeah. Doesn't sound right, does it? I've always had a lot of these but they're just taking over lately. Need to find something as I can get them out of the rock work and corals. :(

[betamed]

I have a pair of yellow coris wrasses. I also have alot of those bright yellow spaghetti worms so I don't think they like them. Also have an xmas wrasse. They took care of the zoa eating nudibranches but not worms.

[bkelley02]

The Xmas wrasse didn't bother anything else? You have an issue with the worms too? Do you see them wrapping aroung the bottom or corals as well?

[rachenbrazil]

Splendid pseudocromis wipe out my zoa tank of spaghetti....

[bkelley02]

They don't bother anything else? That's a beautiful fish.

[OceanLover2]

I have a polypseudochromis and he will occaisionally eat a spahetti worm. He is beautiful in purple and gold but he is the nastiest fish in my community reef. If I can ever catch him he is going to be gone, gone, gone. He ate my beloved cleaner shrimp and harrasses the invertebrates.

Suggest you cut down on feeding a bit and see if that helps. It would be a slow cure though.

[bkelley02]

Thanks. What you said about the fish was what I was afraid of and thought I had heard before.

I'm surprised at the steady growth of the worms as I feed fairly lightly. Keep a really low nutrient tank and not much food hits the bottom of the tank, but something has to be feeding them.

I'll cut back some of the food and keep looking. I was thinking about a Longnose Hawkfish but not sure of that yet. I don't have many feather duster type worms, but I'm just not sure.

[rachenbrazil]

by now splendid did not bothered my black ocellaris and regular ocelaris pairs ... but should be agressive when get large

[rachenbrazil]

now only 2 inches... fridmani (orchid) would eat spaghetti worms as well and more mild mannered.

[mflamb]

I have 3 yellow coris wrasses. Prior to them, I had lots of spaghetti worms.