bristle worm

It’s huge. I saw it when I was rearranging my rocks. I don’t know if it’s a bristle worm or fireworm

Hello Everybody! Long time lurker first time poster! Some how in my 5+ years of having a saltwater tank (1 years reef), i have never had a bristle worm nor saw a bristle worm. However that all changed about a month ago. I am just looking for confirmation that this is indeed bristle worms...

I picked up a mandarin last Sunday. On Tuesday I noticed some notches in its tail. On Wednesday it was worse, so I started searching for ideas. I came across a single thread that mentioned someone seeing a bristle worm eating their mandarin's tail fin and the mandarin just kind of chillin...

I knew I had a bristleworm that came home with my very first coral frag but I thought it also died in the cave collapse with Detroit Pistol and Grumpy Gordon (may they excavate in eternal peace) because I found a dead one when sifting the sand bed for the shrimp. But, peering into my tank before...

Just found out that there’s a large bristle worm in my tank (5inches). Is it harmful? Wondering if it’s harmful. I got a small (1inch) cleaner shrimp couple weeks ago, and it’s missing for a few days. Is it possible that the bristle worm killed the shrimp? The shrimp usually stay under the same...

So I have a few bristle worms in my tank.. however in this video it seems that it has a green or greenish blue shimmer to the top of it. Is this just from the lights or the shimmer of the water? Just curious if anyone knows?

Hello Everyone This is a thread to hopefully finally figure out what these strange worms are. These have appeared in many threads in the past several years but so far we have no true ID , as it seems they are becoming more prevalent in our systems , I thought I would put together one final...

Thats pretty straight forward. If you have Bristleworms - i know you have them - you can use this device. Put some shrimp or food pellets in the bottom and let the worms get inside their coffin. Designed by myself. - Wanna buy the STL? $2 - i know you have 2 bucks and this 3d printer...

Wanted to post this just for everyone's knowledge. One of my Goni colonies stopped opening 2 weeks ago with all the others, just fine. So, I read an article about worms boring into the skeleton at the bottom of the base and I decided to take a look. Well sure enough there was a large worm...

i have heard that blue sapphire damselfish (the peaceful ones) eat flatworms, and i was wondering if they (or any closely related species) have been known to eat bristle worms? obviously im not expecting this random 6 dollar fish to have the appetite of a melenarus wrasse, but i do just want to...

I have not seen either of my turbo snails roaming around in a while. Well today I found a dead turbo with some sort of bristleworm in the shell. The other turbo is now missing and so is one of my two trochus snails. Below is a photo of the worm which I beleive might be a fireworm? Is there any...

Have a few hitchhikers, some of which I’m (oddly?) excited about, feather dusters, bristle worms, possible spaghetti worms? But have a few more than I’m needing some ID on! Clear translucent tubes, Neon orange spots on multiple areas of rock, and the green plant looking algae? Also can’t...

Hello gang, Long time listener, first time caller when is comes to asking for advice. I have a 40g aio aquatop cube that’s been running about 8 months and I’m buying a 26g RS nano peninsula…. Well 2 actually but 1 is coming today (and I’ll do a build thread I guess). 1 tank will transfer...

Roughly 8”

~8” bristle worm I don’t want!

Got him!!!

so this is interesting, when feeding my goby and pistol shrimp whom were both out, a bristle worm came out with them! it was touching the goby and he didn’t even seem to mind and when the goby went in the burrow it did too. i waited for it to come out enough and managed to yoink it out though...

Hello Fellow LPS owners - I wanted to share my recent experience and see if anyone has had similar observation. My circumstantial evidence only points to Bristle worm at some part of lifecycle being responsible. My tank had a huge algae outbreak - primarily due to lack of maintenance (fully my...

Hey all. A month or two ago I was clearing some hair algae out of my tank. I was being lazy and not using gloves, and I guess at some point I rested a finger against a bristleworm. Got a good 20+ bristles right into the joint of my ring finger. Without thinking, I just sort of wiped them off...

Should I dip this thing? Or is it just a poop eating bristleworm?

I think/hoping its just a bristle worm, but the pictures I've looked up look a little different from this guy in my tank. This is the best video I have, hoping to get more evidence. Thoughts?