Christmas Tree Worm Feeding

Just in time for the season the christmas tree worm aquarium is our version of a xmas tree but instead of having one tree there s about a hundred colorful worms.

Christmas tree worm feeding. This simple tank consists of just a 30 gallon innovative marine ext lit with a nemolight prism led fed by a small waveline pump in line with a 200 gallon coral system and an aquamedic ecodrift 8 1 to provide water movement. What to feed tropical fish fry livebearers and egglayers. Christmas tree worm reproduction although it might be hard to tell by just looking at them there are actually male and female christmas tree worms.

This somewhat specialized diet along with this species intolerance for strong direct water movement make it somewhat difficult to feed. They reproduce by sending their eggs and sperm into the water column where hopefully they will meet and the egg will become fertilised. Some of the captive grown porites have aquacultured names like canary porites coral p.

Few organisms are known to feed on tube borne polychaetes and s. Cylindrica limited edition mike paletta s purple porites and amethyst porites p. Their body is usually hidden inside its tube until the spiral christmas tree shaped crown projects from the burrow to feed.

Cilia then pass the food to the worm s mouth. Christmas tree worm rock boulder coral plating jewel coral jeweled finger coral and porites coral. Christmas tree worms are typical sedentary filter feeders which strain food out of the water column by circulating it through its system.

The christmas tree worm is purely a filter feeding species whose diet should consist of plankton foods in the currents and should be supplemented with liquid plankton based foods. Since it is purely a filter feeder the diet of the christmas tree worm should be supplemented with liquid plankton based foods. As sedentary inhabitants of coral reefs christmas tree worms feed primarily by filter feeding.

Christmas tree worms are ciliary feeders which means they use cilia tiny hair like bristles on their appendages to catch food as it passes by. Giganteus is no exception. The crown contains multiple radioles which have fan like cilia branches.