What? How?

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Anyway this is just something random I saw in my tank last night....

Sooo, I decided to spot feed some krill to my corals last night, my phosphates are zero and have been for months, this is just something I do to make sure they're getting nutrients, anyway. When got to my platygyra I dropped some small pieces on it, then came back and saw this

HOW THE HECK DID A PLATYGYRA CATCH A BIRSTLEWORM! HOW? Since when did they become predatory lol

 

[Reefer Matt]

Bristle worms will burrow in holes in the coral skeleton. I have had them in torch coral too.

 

[Miami Reef]

Do you think perhaps the bristle worm was attracted to the food you fed?

 

[larryl]

That is interesting!

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Bristle worms will burrow in holes in the coral skeleton. I have had them in torch coral too.

Nope, this guy was dead. He might have been trying to though

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Do you think perhaps the bristle worm was attracted to the food you fed?

Maybe, though he would have to have come early! I do see them on my lobo a half hour or so after I feed, though this one was already in the platygyra when I started feeding! And he definitely wasn't alive when I caught him

 

[JGT]

Could have floated by and landed on the coral.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Could have floated by and landed on the coral.

THATS WHAT IVE BEEN THINKING! though still have no idea how it was able to sting/capture it, but they are similar to favias so...