kamil5000
05/19/2006, 05:15 AM
Hi,
I plucked these out of the aquarium, they were feeding on a dying snail (I saw about six more in the display).
In the last couple of month I have found a lot of dead snails (about 30 total) and was wondering if this was because of these worms (fire worms ? or regular bristtlewroms ?).
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/64467Bristleworm_016_copy.jpg
At the same time, the snail death occured after I trimmed a sacraphyton (leather) coral - which are supposed to emit very strong poisons.
So I am tying to figure out whether these guys are responsible for the snails deaths, or are they just preforming a clean up service - after the fact.
tks.
I plucked these out of the aquarium, they were feeding on a dying snail (I saw about six more in the display).
In the last couple of month I have found a lot of dead snails (about 30 total) and was wondering if this was because of these worms (fire worms ? or regular bristtlewroms ?).
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/64467Bristleworm_016_copy.jpg
At the same time, the snail death occured after I trimmed a sacraphyton (leather) coral - which are supposed to emit very strong poisons.
So I am tying to figure out whether these guys are responsible for the snails deaths, or are they just preforming a clean up service - after the fact.
tks.