I am growing Caulerpa on one corner away from the cheatomorpha that I am also growing. I have a lot of snails in my display tank and I have no snails in my
Refugium. Are snails beneficial in the
refugium?
Will they do any harm to the living fauna in the
refugium?
Can they remove too much algae from the glass and starve all the pods that are always crawling on the walls?
Or on the contrary remove more
nitrates by eating the algae?
Do snail feces contribute to
nitrates?
I also have another question in which I have found contradicting information all over the internet.
Are bristle worms bad or beneficial for you
refugium? I know there are diferent size bristle worms and different species. I also learned that the most common found in aquaria is the fireworm species. I recently Added a piece of
live rock to my
refugium and I quarantined the rock and noticed 4 bristle worms that were about 2 inches long and about 1cm wide. They had a red pigment and I proceeded to remove them. Better safe than sorry. After adding the rock I noticed really small bristle worms crawling in the
refugium millimeters wide and about half a centimeter long. Should I hesitate to remove them? I have read in some places that bristle worms are good scavengers and that they do not kill other species. I also read that people missunderstand them because when they see them eating pods in general they think that they killed the pod but the reality of the situatiion is that either the pod was already dying from starvation or was scavenged and missunderstood.
I am so confused by other sources of information were they say the contrary.
Is removing bristle worms part of my
refugium maintenance?
