![]() These predators include Six Line Wrasses, Yellow Coris Wrasses, Melanurus Wrasses, Leopard Wrasses, Spotted Mandarins, and even Blue Damsels. Luckily Flatworms are eaten by many animals. Others feed on coral killing your beautiful reef. Some, like Ghost Flatworms, are harmless. Flatwormsįlatworms come in multiple varieties. They are often employed to eliminate Vermetid Snails from aquatic systems by inserting their elongated trunks into crevices and consuming the Vermetid Snail. Bumble Bee Snails are highly efficient scavengers that consume any leftover food and are particularly skilled at preying on the troublesome Vermetid Snail. Vermetid Snails are a difficult pest with only one known predator, the Bumblebee Snail. Arrow Crabs, Coral Banded Shrimp and Horseshoe crabs are smaller and get into spots fish cant, so they help kill the smaller ones before they get large. The Copperband Butterfly Fish, Goat Fish and some Gobies also snack on them. ![]() While extremely useful, they can be aggressive and it is suggested that they are one of your last fish introduced. Many wrasses like the Six Line wrasse yellow coris wrasse, melanurus wrasse, sunset wrasse, Maori wrasse, and bird wrasse eats bristle worms, and any other pest in your tank. Also if you ever get the bristles in your fingers, you quickly become not a fan. While they are a valuable member of a clean up crew they can get large and their bristles will annoy certain coral. Bristle Wormsīristle worms are not necessarily a pest, but some people don’t like them. You must either continually add starfish like chocolate chips or trade them with others that have asterina problems. ![]() the only issue is they starve afterwards. They will rapidly eradicate any tank of all starfish. These shrimp eat only one thing, starfish. Bumblebee snails also feed on them but they are slow at it and asternia breeding rapidly outpace them. Six line wrasses have been known to eat asternia but they aren’t their first choice. There are a couple predators we can get in a reef tank for an asterina. There are species that feast on certian corals like zoa’s and gsp, and overall are not a great addition to your tank. Some people say they are harmless, others hate them. Asterina StarfishĪsterina starfish are a complicated one. Get them in pairs and they will set up a fish “carwash” and fish will park next to them while they scour them for any issues, including flukes. Cleaner Skunk Shrimp are also of the “cleaner” variety. Not only do they pick off dead scales, but they eat flukes and other parasites off your fish. They are translucent and until they start covering a fish completely they are almost invisible.Ĭleaner wrasses are a great addition to a tank. ![]() Often times you don’t notice them until they have done real damage. Flukesįlukes and other parasitic worms are insidious. These shrimp devour aiptasia but there are multiple species named “peppermint shrimp” and only one eats aiptasia, so do your research. Some invertebrates eat aiptasia too, one of the easiest to come by is the Peppermint Shrimp. These are some of the most gorgeous animals in the ocean, but are notoriously hard to keep but very worth it if you can manage it. Another great aiptasia eating fish is the Copperband Butterflyfish. These unique and fun fish are peaceful, get along with other fish and are reasonably reef safe. One of the best animals is the Aiptasia eating filefish… it’s so good that it’s in the name. But certain animals love them as tasty snacks. They are hard to get rid of because any action usually causes them to spawn just increasing their numbers. Aiptasia is a pest anemone that kills other coral and over runs your aquarium quickly. With the correct combo of animals in your saltwater tank, you may never know there was an issue! AiptasiaĪiptasia is one of the more annoying pests in your aquarium. Instead of always having to chasing the new pest, what if you could stop the pest before they even become an issue? That is where certain animals come in. Not only do they kill your animals, they are usually not attractive and cause a lot of stress for you and the animals in the tank. Pests are one of the biggest problems with having a saltwater aquarium in the home. ![]()
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