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When I ordered some chaetomorpha from you guys a year or so ago, it came with several small medusa worms hitchhiking along for the ride.

 

You guys wouldn't happen to have any sneaking into your chaetomorpha again, would you? They turned out to be awesome scavengers, but sadly mine died when the tank crashed last year.

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johnmaloney

no i havent seen them in awhile, we eventually had shipped out all the chaeto and they depleted. i am trying to think of where we got them, i want to say they started off on gracilaria. what time of year was it?they could be seasonal like the caprellid amphipods...

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Sorry to jack the thread, but when do you usually get caprellid amphipods and on what macros? I would love to get some of them :)

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Sorry to jack the thread, but when do you usually get caprellid amphipods and on what macros? I would love to get some of them :)

 

Yeah, no kidding, that would be awesome!!!

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johnmaloney

they are at the very end of their season, they come on gracilaria and ulva

 

(season probably over really) I think if you google Caprellid Amhipods + gracilaria or reef cleaners etc... you can find a thread in 2009 and again in 2010 and probably a 2011 thread has been indexed by now too with them...like clockwork every november/december or something like they start and run until basically the fish start returning to the area when the water begins warming up in spring.

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carbon-mantis

Ah well, I might check in again a while from now and see if they pop up.

 

They were extremely hardy little creatures. When I first found them they had ejected their digestive tract, but tey managed to fully regenerate and come-to in a little over a week.

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johnmaloney
Ah well, I might check in again a while from now and see if they pop up.

 

They were extremely hardy little creatures. When I first found them they had ejected their digestive tract, but tey managed to fully regenerate and come-to in a little over a week.

 

 

that is amazing you paid that much attention, i have to be honest i have never really watched those ypes of animals for very long. by the way i thought you were 2 different people until this week. :) I think it is because you changed your avatar awhile back.

 

weetie you did the same thing too! lions paw? will have to check that out...oh that is big. what do you do with such a big worm though? :)

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that is amazing you paid that much attention, i have to be honest i have never really watched those ypes of animals for very long. by the way i thought you were 2 different people until this week. :) I think it is because you changed your avatar awhile back.

 

weetie you did the same thing too! lions paw? will have to check that out...oh that is big. what do you do with such a big worm though? :)

 

Stick em in a big sandbed?

I like Medusa Worms. :)

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animalmaster6

I wanted one of the big medusa worms on DD a few months ago when I was interested in Emperor Shrimps. These worms are key to their survival in the wild and important in aquariums too.

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Jonthankite

Live aquaria has them for sale accasionally and for preetyy cheap..... you should check there of your looking for one

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carbon-mantis

That'd certainly make for an exquisite species tank.I spotted an emperor shrimp on Divers Den about a week ago, but it was sold fairly quickly.

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animalmaster6
That'd certainly make for an exquisite species tank.I spotted an emperor shrimp on Divers Den about a week ago, but it was sold fairly quickly.

:o I bet it was pretty pricey. They are fairly difficult to find and are hard to keep alive.

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Jonthankite

the medusa wrom are only like 30$ and are like 15 in long the bongos are like 59$ if i can remember correctly they havve the fairly ofter actually now...........

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johnmaloney

....in a related note, i have coccoon worms now available, that is what we call them here will get the species name soon enough.

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