The sea slug
07/05/2017, 02:28 PM
Hey, all--
So I've always had bristle worms on my tank, the smallish sort, the biggest I've seen being maybe two inches long. They're sort of pink. Lately, however, without any changes to my feeding patterns, I've noticed a boom in population. None of my corals seem to mind, and everything is healthy, but I've learned that sometimes that isn't the first indicator of a problem. I've heard conflicting things about bristle worms from extensive online and in-person research, some maintaining that they are evil personified in a serpenty, aquatic way, and others positive that they just scoot around eating detritus and looking generally unsettling. I'd love a consensus, and ideas. Why just last week I would feed and four would poke out of the rock, and now I feed and count fifteen (and I know where there are that many visible, there's a gazillion hiding), is a mystery to me.
Thanks
So I've always had bristle worms on my tank, the smallish sort, the biggest I've seen being maybe two inches long. They're sort of pink. Lately, however, without any changes to my feeding patterns, I've noticed a boom in population. None of my corals seem to mind, and everything is healthy, but I've learned that sometimes that isn't the first indicator of a problem. I've heard conflicting things about bristle worms from extensive online and in-person research, some maintaining that they are evil personified in a serpenty, aquatic way, and others positive that they just scoot around eating detritus and looking generally unsettling. I'd love a consensus, and ideas. Why just last week I would feed and four would poke out of the rock, and now I feed and count fifteen (and I know where there are that many visible, there's a gazillion hiding), is a mystery to me.
Thanks