Tube worms

[ady]

HI Bros..!!!

Morning...!!

Just bought myself 07 tubewoms ($1 each from Ah-Beng's shop) yesterday.

Looks nice though.. Bought a bottle of 5 in 1 coral food (liquid form).

Is this substantial for growth and maintaining the worms?

Another thing is that I have bought a calcium (powdered form) by Seacam.

Is this a good brand as I have not used any Calcium in my tank before..?

Thanks Bros in advance for the advises...!!!

Cheers..!!!

[drato11]

Hi Ady, Tubeworms are easy to keep provided u don't keep fishes that nip on them. The 5 in 1 coral food is good, will be more than enough to keep the tube worms happy.

I used to use seachem calcium as well, value for money i would say. But you have to check your calcium level with test kits to know how much calcium to dose.

Read up more in this forum, lotsa things you can find out. I learned lotsa stuff from here too!

Cheers!

[iantoh]

hi there ady,

tubeworms are particulate feeders, and will need dissolved organics and phytoplanktonic foods for sustenance. the 5 in 1 coral food is good, but it pouring abit of that in daily might not provide enough for the worms. in my opinion, live phytoplankton is a better choice. a small bottle of DTs will last you quite a while as you can feed your system a small tablespoon at the start of the lighting cycle and some of the phyto will reproduce during the light hours to perpetuate more food for your corals and worms.

as for calcium, seachems calcium chloride powder is good, but do be sure to maintain your alkalinity levels too as calcifying corals and coralline algae require both alk and ca in tandem to build their aragonite skeletons. adding just calcium alone, and neglecting alk will cause ionic imbalances with time.

cheers,

ian

[ady]

Bros...

The 5 in 1 coral food states that we need to turn off the skimmer when feeding.

In my case, I am using 02 Eheim 2217 canister filters (no sump tank) co-curently and a Jebo protein skimmer, 2000 liters per hour. Do I have to shut off the filter as well or just to turn off the protein skimmer only when feeding the tube worms with the coral food?

As I was thinking, the coral food might and will be sucked into the canister filters when I have poured in the coral food even when the protein skimmer is shut off. Sorry, I am quite confused here as 1st time keeping these little beauties. I am thinking of keeping button zoos as well later on once my testing with tube worms succeeds.

Thanks for the advises Bros...!!!