Bristle worm eating GHA

75galOCD · Oct 29, 2017

So I'm night watching the beginnings of my reef, just CUC and a couple hitchhiker bristle worms then right before my eyes this worm stretches across a cavity in the rock straight to a tuft of some gha and wolfed it down. The rock this happened on is the first rock to get ahead of the algae just a few streamers of the algae remaining and is starting to look great so I'm thinking the worms are a significant part of the GHA removal crew?
God I love reefing!!

sfin52 · Oct 29, 2017

I've never seen a bristle worm eating hair algae. I've been around a block or two but not all the blocks. I guess anything is possible.

I would love to see a pic of this beast

75galOCD · Oct 29, 2017

Here he is right before I knew what it was about to do.

Salty1962 · Oct 29, 2017

I guess if they get hungry enough...

Bitcoin Reefer · Jul 7, 2022

Wow anyone else know if this is true lol?

Kiboshed · Jul 9, 2022

I saw some of my small bristleworms eating the diatoms growing on my glass the other day. Blew my mind. Not pictures of the little buggers in the act, but these clean spots were made by bristleworms.

Bitcoin Reefer · Jul 9, 2022

Kiboshed said:
I saw some of my small bristleworms eating the diatoms growing on my glass the other day. Blew my mind. Not pictures of the little buggers in the act, but these clean spots were made by bristleworms.

Beasts!

Rick's Reviews · Jul 9, 2022

Tis is from 2017... Have we really ran out on content

Bitcoin Reefer · Jul 9, 2022

Honestly the search function on R2R isn’t amazing. Using old threads would save a lot of time if they showed up better. This is a good example. I’ve been trying to learn more about bristle worms lately so it’s nice I found this!