Where to buy Cirratulinid or Terebellid worms?

[echoplex]

My g/f got another animal without researching it, on the advice of our LFS that tends to place sales over survival. :? They claimed this beautiful snail would sift through the sand and eat algae.

http://hiplog.com/hiplog/images/tmail.com/f7/b4/plurdawg/2005/02/15/101539/1_Photo_176.jpg

Sadly, it doesn't eat algae. I'm fairly certain it's a Hydatina Zonata. Species of Hydatina are very specialised worm feeders, eating only cirratulid polychaete worms. Since it does a wonderful job churning up the sand though, I'd like to try keeping it.

Here's what it eats in nature 8O : http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Polychaetes/cirratulid.jpg

This is the best advice I've found so far, suggesting using baitworms as a substitute: http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=1690

Anyone have any success feeding anything to a Hydatina?

 

[steve-s]

You might try contacting http://ipsf.com they seem to specialize in these kinds of critters. Not sure if they will have hair or spaghetti worms or even if it will be cost effective. Worth a try though.

Cheers
Steve

 

[echoplex]

Awesome, they have em. http://ipsf.com/#anchor37692
$20 for 6 captive bred worms, and they reproduce in the tank.
It's just the $32 shipping charge that kills it.
Time to ask the g/f if she wants to spend $9 a meal on this guy.

 

[Brad]

Spaghetti worms reproduce fairly well in my setup, but I don't think they could support any kind of predation. My setup is so small that I couldn't remove very many, very quickly...