Worms and sponges - Too many

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BrianC

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[my tanks is overrun with sponges and worms. Do they have a natural predator?

My tank has a couple of bristle and thousands of tube worms.

I never thought I would say this but I plagued by sponges the clear mucus, the yellow mucus, the green mucus the pink mucus (one looks like texas), and all those little clear filter feeding sponges?

I know an angel would help with teh sponge population to a degree but anything specific. I would really like to keep the mucus like sponges and some of the tube worms... just not as many?]
 
[A long nose butterfly would wipe out any feather dusters, and a long nose hawkfish will track down the visible bristleworms.]
 
[If you add any natural predators to your tank they would wipe all of your populations Just think about when you add a Tang to your tank they will eat all the sheet algae that you put in that tank. You will not be able to grow it fast enough to be able to keep some of your sponges or some of your worms (other then bristle which can hide well.) If your just looking to slow the growth of the sponges you can take a razor blade and just cut near the edge in the place you want them to stop growing! They will then grow another way till they heal which from my experience is quite a while.But if you still want to add a fish to take care of these things a Copper Banded Butterfly like Marc was talking about is a very pretty fish to do the job. Most of your angels will eat sponges, but I am not to sure about Pygmy angels as my flame has left all of my sponges alone.


Keith]
 
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