Worm..i think fire or bristle

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Bristleworms get a bad rap.

1) They get blamed for "growing out of control" when you overfeed. But they are eating the food and it's not rotting. What would you prefer happen to excess food?
2) The fireworm, which is an actual coral eater, looks similar, but much larger. They aren't fireworms. Eons ago some magazine published a picture of a fireworm eating a soft coral and everyone has panic'd ever since.
3) Sometimes people see them eating clams, or other desirable inverts. They get blamed for the clam being killed. Reality is, the clam died, and they moved in to clean it up. Just the poor sap who found the body.

The less biomass that rots in the aquarium the better IMHO.
 

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I am over run with them. I bought a trap on Amazon and have gotten about 30 good size ones and there are more. It’s 30.00 but we’ll worth it!
 

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