How long can Coco Worm live in aquarium?

[KenYeo]

I wonder how long we able to keep Coco Worm alive in our aquarium?

From me and some of my friends, most of them only manage to keep them in aquarium for less then 2 years.

If that is the case for most of us, we should stop buying and left in the ocean?

Please share your view.

[Kalib]

Mine lasted for less than a year... Not going to keep them anymore, they just seem to waste away slowly over the months.

[KenYeo]

Some said it need high current and some said it low current...

Any expert our there that manage to keep for more than 3 years able to share your experience?

[Jakuson]

Actually, my spawned and now I have maybe hundred of small coco worms. But after the large red coco worm spawned, it died. I only bought it for a few months and it died after spawning.

When it died, I still didn't know it has spawned, it is only after a few weeks then I saw a lot of red feathery stuff on the underside of my rocks. To my surprise, they were all small red coco worms and a lot of them.

It has been a more than half a year and the baby coco worms are still growing each day. Hopefully they will continue to thrive and grow.

[Thexder]

Actually, my spawned and now I have maybe hundred of small coco worms. But after the large red coco worm spawned, it died. I only bought it for a few months and it died after spawning.

When it died, I still didn't know it has spawned, it is only after a few weeks then I saw a lot of red feathery stuff on the underside of my rocks. To my surprise, they were all small red coco worms and a lot of them.

It has been a more than half a year and the baby coco worms are still growing each day. Hopefully they will continue to thrive and grow. 

When your cocoworm spawned did it look like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qzt5ycwQE?

My cocoworm is still alive. Recently 1 head dropped off, but growing back the lost head again now.

[Jakuson]

Yes...yes...haha...it looked exactly like that... I wonder what made it die off...

[Thexder]

Well... I won't know why it died. Maybe it just reached the end of its life cycle. I had urchin which just died after a few months. I didn't get baby cocoworms after spawning So I was wondering if cocoworms release both male and female gametes during spawning or just 1 type?

[Jakuson]

Acutally, I am not so sure also... I think it is just luck that I got it spawned...

[Thexder]

Yes...yes...haha...it looked exactly like that... I wonder what made it die off...

Thanks for confirming for me on the spawning. Posted earlier but nobody able to tell me if thats spawning or not.

[reeftask]

I am still scratching my head on cocworms. I have noticed after my cocworm died, months later I see lots of cocoworms growing on the LR and glasses. I just ignored them as they grow too slow, like no growth in months. Then years later, I placed this empty cocoworm shell in a quarantine tank and months later I see this quarantine tank's glasses have small coco worms too. Then I started to transfer this empty coco shell to another small tank and several months later again I saw some cocos on the tank glasses. I think there grow like aipstasia. DNA flows anywhere and grow there.

[slcw]

I am still scratching my head on cocworms. I have noticed after my cocworm died, months later I see lots of cocoworms growing on the LR and glasses. I just ignored them as they grow too slow, like no growth in months. Then years later, I placed this empty cocoworm shell in a quarantine tank and months later I see this quarantine tank's glasses have small coco worms too. Then I started to transfer this empty coco shell to another small tank and several months later again I saw some cocos on the tank glasses. I think there grow like aipstasia. DNA flows anywhere and grow there.

ma be not coco worms, i used to had that before. Hard shell like coco worms on sump glass, a check to www.wetwebmedia.com said this happens due to excess nutrient levels