Do Bristle Worms eat Pods?

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As the title says, I have a large refugium with tons of pods. I have several pod eating fish in my DT (wrasses and mandarin), so I am conscious of how my refugium is doing. Lately, I have seen my pod population dropping. I hardly see any on the glass anymore. However, I've seen a ton of bristle worms all over the bottom and in the macroalgae. I wouldn't think they eat them, but I wanted to verify.
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BW like fish poop, decaying or died fish/snail, and leftover fish food. If you over feed your BW count will go up. I'd bet it is your wrasse that is depleting your pod count.

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Diana
 
Thank you. I assumed it wasn’t related, but it was odd the increase and decreased happened at the same time.
 

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