Just a bristle worm?

[>>klong<<]

This is the first worm I’ve caught. I don’t see any big pincers on its head. Is it a safe bristle worm? Keep it or toss it?

 

[Nem1clownfish2]

That is a bristle worm all right! I think you should toss it because they get HUGE! But it is up to you.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Regular bristleworm. Keeper

 

[>>klong<<]

Thx!

 

[king aiptasia]

That is a bristle worm all right! I think you should toss it because they get HUGE! But it is up to you.

imagine tossing out dogs and cats when they are no longer puppies and kittens because they got "huge"

 

[Nem1clownfish2]

Yeah sorry about that!

 

[Nem1clownfish2]

I didn't mean it like that.

 

[ReeferJay86]

They’re part of a good clean up crew. Uneaten food that gets trapped in the rock work they got to town on it, even the copepods.

 

[Jeffcb]

worm

 

[>>klong<<]

He's already back in the tank. This is a new nano tank with all Florida live rock, and I'm welcoming the diversity that came with it. Unless it's a bobbit worm.

 

[king aiptasia]

He's already back in the tank. This is a new nano tank with all Florida live rock, and I'm welcoming the diversity that came with it. Unless it's a bobbit worm.

true bobbit worms of the genus Eunice are exceedingly rare, most Eunicidae are quite docile when it comes to corals and fish. florida has quite a few tiny species and I'd recon from personal experience most people with large quantities of authentic florida rock have a population of eunicidae hiding in the rockwork

 

[Frogspon]

imagine tossing out dogs and cats when they are no longer puppies and kittens because they got "huge"

Gasp! Imagine mowing your lawn and running over an ant bed!

 

[king aiptasia]

Gasp! Imagine mowing your lawn and running over an ant bed!

Jokes on you I never mow the lawn lol. But in all seriousness if you can avoid hurting animals senselessly you should strive to do so. That spider on the wall did not deserve to be crushed just for being unattractive, they aren't trying to hurt you, I feel it's sort of a respect thing. Now of course I'm not going to advocate for the ticks and every other pest in the world, I'm not unreasonable, and anyway I used to work in pest control for years. But these worms are a normal part of a healthy marine environment, and in fact are more influential on the environment of the reef than most the fish living there.