Pink Bristle Worm?

[Palindromebaby]

Hi everyone! Had to create an account to post have been lurking around since I set my first saltwater tank up on Black Friday. Saw this creepy crawly for the first time today.... Oh the joys of live rock. Already had to remove a Bobbit worm so I may be a little paranoid. I think this is a pink bristle worm of the harmless cleanup variety but am looking for confirmation. It came out after throwing in a broken up algae wafer which is what the pile of hermit crabs is fighting over Thanks!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Hi everyone! Had to create an account to post have been lurking around since I set my first saltwater tank up on Black Friday. Saw this creepy crawly for the first time today.... Oh the joys of live rock. Already had to remove a Bobbit worm so I may be a little paranoid. I think this is a pink bristle worm of the harmless cleanup variety but am looking for confirmation. It came out after throwing in a broken up algae wafer which is what the pile of hermit crabs is fighting over Thanks!

Are you referring to the worm on the rock, or the one along the bottom on the gravel? The one on the rock is definitely a regular bristleworm, the one down below if its pink and smooth could be a peanut worm, which is a good hitch hiker

 

[PghReef]

Looks like one to me, even with fire worms if my memory serves me correct there are a few species and of them only the Caribbean variety has been known to feed on corals. A lot of times we see critters on are corals,and assume they are eating healthy coral tissue when in fact they're feeding on a dying coral doing there job of cleaning up the tank.

Some people hate bristles, I never minded them. They help clean up detritus in the rockwork and provide a great food source for some fish. Havnt seen a bristle in my tank in years since I got a wrasse though they do a good job at keeping hitchhikers in check.

Welcome to reefing you'll learn a lot in a short period of time. Do you have a build thread?

 

[KJ]

Polychaete Linopherus good CUC .

 

[Palindromebaby]

The worm on the bottom is in fact not a worm at all rather a toothpick. I bought that little pulsing xenia as a fresh frag and it detached from the reef glue and I had to secure it to a rock with a toothpick as I don't have any glue of my own yet.

 

[Crabs McJones]

The worm on the bottom is in fact not a worm at all rather a toothpick. I bought that little pulsing xenia as a fresh frag and it detached from the reef glue and I had to secure it to a rock with a toothpick as I don't have any glue of my own yet.

I thought it looked to straight to be a worm

 

[PghReef]

That pretty good lol

I had pulsing xenia as my first coral. Didn't grow but didn't die for a few months and then took off to become a massive colony! Some people can keep it, some can't not sure why I used corallife salt which seems to be a less popular makeup. My lfs used red sea and id bring in drags and they would always melt away in his tanks.

 

[PghReef]

That was pretty early on had a large rock island if xenia and Jasmine polyp coral. Kept it from spreading to the other rock structures by placing frogspawn and hammer corals between them kill an back if they tried to spread. Not sure if that's a preferred method here on reef2reef but worked for 5 years until I had a tank crash from a broken filter.

 

[Sharkbate]

Hi everyone! Had to create an account to post have been lurking around since I set my first saltwater tank up on Black Friday. Saw this creepy crawly for the first time today.... Oh the joys of live rock. Already had to remove a Bobbit worm so I may be a little paranoid. I think this is a pink bristle worm of the harmless cleanup variety but am looking for confirmation. It came out after throwing in a broken up algae wafer which is what the pile of hermit crabs is fighting over Thanks!

Bristle.... good for cleaning up rubbish ... I leave them alone unless they get BIG ... but I run Nano systems .... your choice but they shouldn’t hurt anything ...