Bristle worm solution?
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Toss me in the camp of "more likely to be the fish or the shrimp." Regular, white bristle worms are great members of a healthy CUC as detritus consumers and inner sand bed cleaners. One of our tanks has a healthy population that keeps itself in check by the amount of detritus available to be consumed. They've never harmed a single coral in that tank - LPS, softies, or otherwise. I've seen other tanks with healthy bristle worm populations - again, not a single bit of damage to any coral.
I am no expert actually always learning from you guys, but I eradicated all of my bristle worms by accident ;Dead; I lost a healthy fish for no apparent reason found it dead in the morning with a chunk of the tail missing and other strange wounds, then months later my daughter and I actually saw a bristle worm attached and eating the tail off a sleeping healthy fish. Nothing work so one day I removed the rocks I knew they where in placed them in a 5g bucket to dip and clean.
In between I had few beersand totally forgot the rocks outside (no dip).
That night temperature in Florida dropped to about 45 degrees and every single worm 9 in total popped out dead or numb and completely out of the rock in the botto
I am hoping that this method works. My wife just noticed one comming out of a newer piece of rock and stretching toward 5 crabs feasting on a dead snail. I pulled the (nakid) rock out and have it sitting in a small bucket with cold RO water dripping on it from the sink. I hope that this is enough to flush the little booger out!
Gregg @ ADP
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I would put a lot of money on it being a dozen things other than bristle worms.
Speaking of, I’m redoing a tank and found a bristle worm that was at least 4’ long
Here’s the front half:
And here’s the back half:
That is one worm.
Speaking of, I’m redoing a tank and found a bristle worm that was at least 4’ long
Here’s the front half:
And here’s the back half:
That is one worm.
