What type of bristle worm is this? Okay or bad?

[Alexjones.aj99]

 

[Lavey29]

Looks more like some type of nudibranch

 

[Miami Reef]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[vetteguy53081]

Common bristleworm baby.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

It's fine

 

[Alexjones.aj99]

thanks for the replies, was worried it was a fireworm. Glad it’s not

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

thanks for the replies, was worried it was a fireworm. Glad it’s not

Most fireworms found in our tanks are still not predatory and are harmless to corals, inverts, and fish... they just sting us worse.

 

[CoralB]

I would get rid of it and any others you may have imo . They can harm corals as they brush up against them as they move around the tank at night . I’ve personally experienced damage to blastos and mushroom coral in the past . I’ve pulled bristles out of a large magic carpet . You can trap them , put in a melanarus wrasse , and arrow crabs to remove them . Imo I would be proactive to remove them and be more careful not to bring them in to the tank .

 

[Alexjones.aj99]

I would get rid of it and any others you may have imo . They can harm corals as they brush up against them as they move around the tank at night . I’ve personally experienced damage to blastos and mushroom coral in the past . I’ve pulled bristles out of a large magic carpet . You can trap them , put in a melanarus wrasse , and arrow crabs to remove them . Imo I would be proactive to remove them and be more careful not to bring them in to the tank .

Good info thank you! Melanarus wrasse will eat them for me?

 

[CoralB]

Good info thank you! Melanarus wrasse will eat them for me?

I would use manual and trapping removal first and if you have the room for and like a melanarus wrasse they will eat them . However just like any other problem that we may have in the tank using fish or invertebrates to take care of a problem can be hit or miss depending on the specimen. I’ve used foxface rabbit fish in the past for eating green bubble algae while most eat it with no problem I did have one that wouldn’t touch it . Traps do work but I found the combination of the traps , manual removal , and the melanarus wrasse worked the best for me . For manual removal I used a 1/2 inch tubing about 6 ft long and sucked them out at night with the lights out using a red light . Start the siphon into a five gallon pale and control the flow with your thumb over the end of it while moving it to one worm after another . I would only suck out as many as I could get with about 3 gallons of water each night then replace the water with new made up salt water . You will get a lot of them this way but doubt you’ll get them all and that’s where the trap and the melanarus wrasse come in to help finish the job . Night time is the best time to get them and to see just how many you have . Good luck