Will this brisstle worm hurt my sps??
 

I found this monster in my 24 gallon nano cube today at work. I think he might be dangerous to softer corals and my small fish at night. I have a 40 gallon SPS tank at home and i think i might put him there if he isnt going to cause a ruckus. Any thoughts??

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He is getting kind of big. Make soup out of him or give him away :)

Got a surf casting rod?

I have some that large, or maybe even larger, w/ no ill effects on anything in the tank. They do however keep my LR looking nice and clean. They are excellent scavengers IMO.......

No problems here with mine.

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That thing is soo long. The largest one I've seen in my tank is maybe 5-6 inches long.a

I would remove the large ones.... mainly because they give me the creeps... :P

Opps! Forgot to add, I've seen several cases of bristle-worms boring into the base of SPS colonies, causing the coral to be in a stressed state and refusing to grow or colour up... so while it doesn't happen all the time, these worms can indeed pose a danger to your SPS...

Thanks for your response Vanquish. Thats the input i was looking for.

He will will spend the rest of his days in my friends refugium.

My only concern is when worms like this and large snails.....(I have a 3inch diameter snail), eventually die that they pose the same problem as a fish dying in the water. Soon we will have to not only be doing fish head counts every day, but worm counts....

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10334671#post10334671 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AudioAdict [/i]
[B]Thanks for your response Vanquish. Thats the input i was looking for.

He will will spend the rest of his days in my friends refugium. [/B][/QUOTE]

Always glad to be of help... :)

hehe i wouldnt worry 2 much about him.... 2 years ago we found one just under 3 foot long in our 28 gal reef and he had to have been there for at least a year and never hurt a thing

hehe i wouldnt worry 2 much about him.... 2 years ago we found one just under 3 foot long in our 28 gal reef and he had to have been there for at least a year and never hurt a thing

That particular worm look slike a Fire worm, which are typcially seen as harmful. Regular ole bristle worms aren;t bad, but when they get big like that (and Eunicid worms), I'd have to find a new home for it...

I just had a 5 incher get blown into my SEIO 820 and get chopped up yesterday. The hermits and nassarius snails had a field day and munched up all the pieces.

DarkXerox I think thats what's going on in the picture above. ^^^

bristle worms
 

thier ugly loking

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[B]DarkXerox I think thats what's going on in the picture above. ^^^ [/B][/QUOTE]

ya haha, that's what reminded me. I swear you see the craziest stuff in a fishtank when you're looking at it, imagine what you miss though that 95% of the time you're not looking at it.