Worms

Is fan worm a prey or predator?

Is fan worm a prey or predator?
  1. What kind of consumer is a fan worm?
  2. What do fan worms eat?
  3. Are fan worms decomposers?
  4. How do Fanworms eat?
  5. What animals eat fan worms?
  6. What does a fan worm do?
  7. Are fan worms reef safe?
  8. Where do fan worms live?
  9. How do fan worms reproduce?
  10. What reef organisms are consumers?
  11. What herbivores are in the Great Barrier Reef?
  12. Do worms have Ocelli?
  13. Do feather dusters move?
  14. What is a spaghetti worm?

What kind of consumer is a fan worm?

The Phytoplankton is consumed by Zooplankton, a primary consumer. The Zooplankton is then consumed by some secondary consumers: the Fan Worm, the Blue Chromis, the Sea Sponge the Coral Polyps. The Fan Worm is eaten by the tertiary consumer, the puffer fish.

What do fan worms eat?

Biology. The European fan worm is a filter feeder and feeds on bacteria, zooplankton, phytoplankton and suspended particles of organic matter. Individual worms are either male or female and liberate gametes into the sea.

Are fan worms decomposers?

Decomposers: Fan worms, sea cucumbers, snails, crabs, bristle worms and bacteria are decomposers in the Great Barrier Reef.

How do Fanworms eat?

In a fully stocked mature reef aquarium, Fan Worms do not require any supplemental food source and will feed happily upon the available detritus, plankton, and bacteria. If in an environment in which supplemental feeding is necessary, use infusoria or foods designed for filter-feeding invertebrates.

What animals eat fan worms?

If you want a natural predator, some wrasses will eat them, several types of butterfly fish will, and certain shrimp, such as the coral banded shrimp (which I actually recommend against getting) will eat them too. Save the reef, buy aquacultured.

What does a fan worm do?

Mediterranean fanworm will readily settle on mussel grow-out lines and may reduce mussel growth by altering water flow around the lines and competing with mussels for suspended food (CSIRO 2001). ... Male Mediterranean fanworm release sperm into the water to be captured by the females.

Are fan worms reef safe?

Fan Worms are not only beautiful additions to a reef aquarium, but are also efficient filter feeders that play an important role in a properly balanced reef system. ... Due to their feathery appendages, these worms are also known as Feather Duster Worms.

Where do fan worms live?

Fan worms (Sabellidae), also known as feather-duster worms, are tube-dwelling marine annelids inhabiting most marine environments, from the littoral to the deep ocean sediments and with a few species that have also colonized freshwater habitats.

How do fan worms reproduce?

Feather duster worms reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sexual reproduction involves the release of gametes into the water where the fertilized eggs develop into free-swimming larvae that eventually settle in an appropriate habitat.

What reef organisms are consumers?

What are the primary consumers in the coral reef food web illustration? The primary consumers are zooplankton, corals, sponges, Atlantic blue tang, and queen conch.

What herbivores are in the Great Barrier Reef?

On coral reefs, there are both invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. Invertebrate herbivores include urchins (see above), crabs, limpets, chitons, and polychaete worms. Prominent vertebrate herbivores can be reef fishes, sea turtles, and dugongs [2].

Do worms have Ocelli?

In their head, they have a few pairs of cerebral ocelli. These ocelli are possibly homologous to the main eyes of errant polychaetes like Platynereis, but in fan worms they are reduced to a single photoreceptor and a pigment cup cell, without lenses and buried in the brain, well below the body surface.

Do feather dusters move?

No, not at least around the tank. They can move up and down in the tube but that is about it. Also as they make their tube larger - but that's it.

What is a spaghetti worm?

The spaghetti worm is a segmented worm, a marine relative of the earthworm and a member of the Phylum Annelida. ... This worm's segmented body is hidden within a crevice or under rocks and only the long white spaghetti-like tentacles extend from the head to gather food.

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