sailfinja

New to salt water. I have some flesh coloured worms with what looks like little tiny legs (I know they are not legs) all along the body (for some reason I think they may be called bristle worms??) They range in size from 1/2 inch to 5 inches. Does anyone know what they are? What they eat? They don't seem to bother the fish (I have mollies and 2 cleaner gobies).

I'm from Edmonton and have had fish of some sort since my grade 2 teacher gave me some guppies back around 1978. I keep mostly livebearers, however, a friend gave me a pair of Convict Cichlids and they just wouldn't stop reproducing (I kept giving them away to stores and finally had to give the lot away as they kept eating my livebearer babies). I joined in search of unusual livebearers. Buying fish by internet auctions is just too costly (shipping), there aren't enough Canadian auctions that I know of, and I'm not patient enough to wait for the juviniles you receive to reach maturity. I did buy some Tequila Goodeids on line from a guy in Quebec earlier this summer, and had a healthy drop of 8 fry yesterday. However the fish I bought are still quite small and I'm anxiously waiting for them to grow up. So if anyone in the Edmonton region has unusual livebearers for sale please let me know. In fact if you have something really special I would probably even drive to Calgary to get them.

I set up an old claw bath tub as a pond. No fish in it yet as it is the end of summer (fish are in an aquarium, which just looks like green soup but the fish seem happy). Should I drain the water for winter or leave it in? Will freezing do any damage?

Currently breeding: Ameca Spendens (Butterfly Goodeid) Xenotoca Eiseni (Red-tailed Goodeid) Chapalichthys pardalis (Leopard Goodeid)