Hello & question!!!

[NY_Caveman]

Bristleworms are great clean up crew members. They eat leftover food, detritus, stir up the sand and keep the place clean. However, if they overpopulate and become huge that can be a problem. One other thing, the bristles can stick you and be quite painful, but not too worrisome.

 

[sprinklerdudes]

Welcome to R2R . had them in my tank since the beginning, they can survive a nuclear Holocaust, nothing to worry about . just don't overfeed your fish , they will eat any left over food and overpopulate. They really don't bother anything.

 

[GoVols]

@ChiMama

Looks ;Wideyed like your already in great hands ;Woot ;Woot

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[ChiMama]

Wow thank you everyone for all the wonderful responses!!!! I was a bit worried they were going to hurt my fish...... although they could have been in the tank for awhile and I didn’t know it! And there’s probably other things in there I’m not seeing when the lights are on

 

[NY_Caveman]

Wow thank you everyone for all the wonderful responses!!!! I was a bit worried they were going to hurt my fish...... although they could have been in the tank for awhile and I didn’t know it! And there’s probably other things in there I’m not seeing when the lights are on

I was always amazed what would crawl out of the live rock even years after adding it.

 

[Tautog]

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef

 

[mike werner]

welcome look like pods.no need to worry

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Let’s see some tank pics!

 

[ChiMama]

 

[jsker]

Welcome to R2R, great tank!!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Down by the rock? Hard to tell exactly what it is, but kinda looks like a bristle worm.

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R and your new reefing family.

 

[SPR1968]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Adele]

Welcome to the Reef! Live rock is the proverbial box of chocolates. That’s what is so much fun, it keeps on giving surprises. Unfortunately sometimes the surprise turns out to be a cherry cream filled chocolate but you just roll with it.
If you are worried about the bristle worms or want to keep their populations in check I know a six line wrasse will eat them and perhaps the other wrasses will too but they (six line)can be aggressive. The two I’ve had were fine but some on here think they are a devil fish.

 

[Turbo's Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[MaddyP]

Welcome to the R2R family!

 

[AlyciaMarieee]

Welcome to the R2R family!!!

 

[Bruno516]

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef and enjoy your stay!

You'll come to find there are a ton of helpful people here

 

[Dennis McGrath]

Welcome. I'm a newcomer here also and I have learned more here in the past week, than if I had studied oceanography in college. This is truly an amazing learning experience.