Bristleworms: YEA or NEY

[vetteguy53081]

Many love them, many hate them. They are NOT welcome in my tank. An arrow crab besides a unique creature will feast on these worms !!

 

[Mike Porreca]

Many love them, many hate them. They are NOT welcome in my tank. An arrow crab besides a unique creature will feast on these worms !!

Lol they’re evil!

 

[Dragonreef202]

I had a melanaurus wrasse that was eating my bristleworms. I only see them when I lift up a rock in my tank.

 

[Strawberry]

I had a melanaurus wrasse that was eating my bristleworms. I only see them when I lift up a rock in my tank.

I bought an arrow crab who ate a large amount of them, but I returned him to my LFS because he was eating my hermit and other CUC even though I offered him a buffet of bristle worms and crab cuisine pellets for day time feeding. I still have the bristleworms, but they don’t bother me.

 

[sarcophytonIndy]

Bristleworms may look nasty, but they are beneficial, and their population is self limiting based on the detritus available

 

[Bossman]

They are good for the CUC but I hate finding them in my filter socks and I have not been stung but I hear it’s pretty bad. I wouldn’t say do a reset but probably not bad to keep them thinned out.

I had one in a sock and thought it was a lump of algae. I have the mesh, not the felt socks. I rinse them in a sink with a spray hose. I ended up getting a line of the bristle stuck in my finger which I could see but not feel...yet. I used tweezers to pull them out under running water. They're very soft, not stiff. Afterwards I felt like I had touched a nettle. Not too bad at all, but not pleasant either.

 

[Strawberry]

I had one in a sock and thought it was a lump of algae. I have the mesh, not the felt socks. I rinse them in a sink with a spray hose. I ended up getting a line of the bristle stuck in my finger which I could see but not feel...yet. I used tweezers to pull them out under running water. They're very soft, not stiff. Afterwards I felt like I had touched a nettle. Not too bad at all, but not pleasant either.

I dread the day this happens to me but I usually wear gloves when I’m messing around in the tank lol