Tube worm care and predators.

The picture featured here is of a way you can introduce potential predators for tube worms into the aquarium.

The species of eggs on the worm are not known, but i seen that when these go in the aquarium with a new worms tube with in a few months the tube worms are being eaten while in their tubes.

This type of worm that can be very easily introduced if not careful will wipe out all your tube worms and than live on other foods in wait and there is nothing you can do about it except strip your whole tank down and start again.

When you get a new tube worm,clean the tube,cut it at the end of the worm to make sure this pest does not get in.

If it worries you to much take the tube worm out of its tube and place the worm somewhere safe to form it's new clean and safe tube.




This is a past thread on worm care and breeding.

https://southeastqueenslandm.aforumfree.com/marine-reef-fish-aquarium-keepinggeneral-discusion-f1/tube-worms-feather-dusters-how-to-and-home-made-fish-food-t296.htm

what a nightmare if they wiped out your tank !!!
. do you know anyone personally that this has ever happened too? -

Many have been asked and no exact description can be found of what these are with out a full life cycle to watch.

They are similar in a way to the white spot protozoan in relation to the blisters containing many off spring in each of the blisters.

A part from that nothing is known of them with the people that were contacted except that not long after an infected worms tube went in the blisters were gone and not long after that the worms started to be eatern.

These ones as far as we can tell any way are only found layed on the tube worm tubes and once big enough attack from the rear only.

To see what was going on the tubes were cut open to expose the killer worm and the tube worm trying to repair its self as it is eaten.

The exact same worms were found in the substrate as well in two tanks over the years.

If careful they can be kept out.

As to white spot,these days that is not a big issue,well it shouldnt be!

Hopefullly this will alert some people to use ways to be able to keep them over a very long time and breed them as has been done easily.