Uber-Bristleworm
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Topic: Uber-Bristleworm
Posted By: tfowers
Subject: Uber-Bristleworm
Date Posted: October 01 2003 at 10:23am
| We found a foot-long bristle worm coming out of some cycling rock and wanted to keep it alive, so we move it to another tank. It's reddish with a rainbow colored shine on it. Should I be worried about it eating/attakcing tank-mates? What can I feed it to try to keep it alive? Or should I just remove it out of the potential dead-and-rotting-under-a-rock threat? Any input would be helpful. - Tim |
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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: October 01 2003 at 11:05am
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Wow tim, thats a big worm... Kinda reminds of a post on reefcentral someone once pointed me to: Here's a big worm: http://reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1033108 - http://reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1033108 . From this thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152249 - http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152249 ------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 01 2003 at 11:22am
This is one of three that came out to swim in the Bangerter tank last year. They are easily a foot long in this 180 gal. tank. They are still there and cause no harm. 99.9% of Bristleworms are our friends. They eat detritus and dead fish.
If you do find one that seems to be chomping on coral, they are fun to catch by placing some meaty food wrapped in a couple layers of bridal veil material tied with fishing line or thread that you hang on to out of the water. When the worms go into the folds and through the holes of the material, pull the ball out of the water by the line and dump the bristleworms  ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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