Are these bristle warms

[randy4083]

I just cleaned out my hob refugium and I saw these in there and there's a bunch of them and there red but what are they because they have white like things on there sides and I think that there bristle warms but does anyone know what they are??

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yup. Baby bristle worms.

 

[randy4083]

Is it a bad one or a good one because I have a bunch in my hob refugium like this

 

[randy4083]

There all the same kind and I have no idea how I got them because I haven't added nothing to the tank in awhile and this is the first time that I've seen them in there and there's alot of them

 

[randy4083]

Are they gonna kill fish or anything?? Should I get rid of them or will I be ok?? What should I do because I know that they get big

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

No it's good. They eat detritus. The come in on rock and Macros like chato.
With not nothing eating them in the fuge you'll get a few of them.
Myself I'd drop them in the display tank.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Are they gonna kill fish or anything?? Should I get rid of them or will I be ok?? What should I do because I know that they get big

I have an index finger rule. Bigger than my finger they get tossed.

I seeded my tank with them but now I have almost none. Somthing is eating them.

 

[randy4083]

I think that I did drop a few in my tank because I just transferred some pods to one of my tanks and a couple went in there but I'll put some in the other tank to so I don't have to worry about nothing happening to my fish or corals then right??

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Correct. Yours are harmless poop eaters.

 

[randy4083]

Ok so if they get that big get rid of them then right

 

[randy4083]

Eventually I might get some kind of wrasse but it will take them awhile before they get that big right

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea. What kind of fish do you have now?

 

[randy4083]

I have clownfish and a Koran angelfish and a purple tang in the tank

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

The angel and tang both maybeat the small ones.