WHAT THE HECK IS THIS????
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uh bristle worm but he has a weird head.
check out lionfishlair.com and the pest hitchiker threads. theres a slight difference
check out lionfishlair.com and the pest hitchiker threads. theres a slight difference
bristle worm yea other no. im a bug guy but id toss him.
here ya go bug lovers.
http://www.cdmas.org/articles/artic...-a-hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-reefs-worms.html
http://www.cdmas.org/articles/artic...-a-hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-reefs-worms.html
Jayrad
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Not sure why the worms get so much hate from new aquarists... worms are good for your garden, they are good for you tank for the same reasons. Its also pretty difficult (impossible?) to keep a tank worm-free long-term anyway.
I get it, they kind of like like porcupine-snakes, but in 10+ years of keeping reefs and handling rocks with my hands I think I have picked up a bristle maybe once or twice and it wasn't painful. If you find a fire worm, OK sure, but I am yet to see one in person.
I get it, they kind of like like porcupine-snakes, but in 10+ years of keeping reefs and handling rocks with my hands I think I have picked up a bristle maybe once or twice and it wasn't painful. If you find a fire worm, OK sure, but I am yet to see one in person.
Coral tanks are so often sold as pretty furniture. Not vivariums or biospheres. Or gardens. Also today and in the past many years we don't teach nature in our schools and bugs are bad and we must irradiate bacteria. There is now thankfully with the worlds problems and folks my and I'm guessing your age trying to retract our connection with nature and its complexity. Now many I know call bee removers and not a can of raid.
Me I just didn't like the looks of his carnicle.
Yea I'm trying to decide weather I should snuff out my gorilla crab.
I feed him too.
human
Active Member
Just throw it in your sump, that's where I keep them. If you know anyone with larger predators, they make a nice snack.
Hahahaaa. Part of the point is there is so little scientific info in the hobby I'm not really sure there is that much of a danger. No one here or on other boards or me has been able to I'd it. From the curve of the claw it is a scraper. An acro it eats junk and algae and then will snack on the host when it has to. If there's no food it'll eat your fish. I've had hermits do that even when the Mrs over feeds. I have the same asteina as some who's Zoas get eaten. Maybe I have more food in the tank. I never clean spots on the back glass. So I have 3 year old snails.
Sides lil fuzzy looks so cute in his hole.
Sides lil fuzzy looks so cute in his hole.
human
Active Member
If it is a Gorilla crab they get big, become more aggressive, and are opportunistic feeders eating everything from detritus, corals, fish they can catch, and everything in between.
Yea. I know.
Quit looking at me with those disapproving eyes.
Firecop I have some good reef tested bristle worms if you want em.
human
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It's ok I've kept all sorts of unwanted creatures over the years. If it's predatory in nature, I find them more fascinating and keep them just to study them. I'm still trying to get my hands on a oenone fulgida worm, just so I can watch how they go about eating corals and hopefully take video of it.
You me and wiz should hang out.
oh thats the one I was afraid the op had. Looks like a bristle but weird head.
