Reef Central Online Community

Home Forum Here you can view your subscribed threads, work with private messages and edit your profile and preferences View New Posts View Today's Posts

Find other members Frequently Asked Questions Search Reefkeeping ...an online magazine for marine aquarists Support our sponsors and mention Reef Central

Go Back   Reef Central Online Community Archives > General Interest Forums > New to the Hobby

 
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 05/13/2005, 11:47 AM
cutester411 cutester411 is offline
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: new hampshire
Posts: 195
Question bristle vs fire

What are the differences between bristle worms and fire worms? I know bristle worms are good and fire worms are not. To me they look similar. How do you tell them apart visually?n
  #2  
Old 05/13/2005, 11:55 AM
Travis L. Stevens Travis L. Stevens is offline
My Life for Aiur!
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Stillwater, OK
Posts: 13,497
If you touch a fire worm you will find out the biggest difference of them all. This is what I gather. Fireworms and bristleworms are related and nearly the same thing except that fireworms are venomous and bistleworms are not (at least not that I know, or to humans at least) There are some bristleworms that are bad and some fireworms that are good, so its not a good/bad situation. But I will leave this topic for open criticism from a more experienced reefer who can visually differentiate the two.
__________________
Travis Stevens
  #3  
Old 05/13/2005, 07:34 PM
bertoni bertoni is offline
RC Mod
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Foster City, CA, USA
Posts: 35,743
The terms are really identical at this point, IMO. This article might help:

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-04/rs/index.htm
__________________
Jonathan Bertoni
  #4  
Old 05/13/2005, 10:22 PM
romunov romunov is offline
Worm person
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 4,378
All fireworms are bristle worms.
__________________
Life is too short to learn everything from experience.
"And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free."
  #5  
Old 05/14/2005, 09:29 AM
cutester411 cutester411 is offline
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: new hampshire
Posts: 195
wow that article was great
thanks!!
__________________
Melissa :smurf:
  #6  
Old 05/14/2005, 09:30 AM
cutester411 cutester411 is offline
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: new hampshire
Posts: 195
wow that article was great
thanks!!
__________________
Melissa :smurf:
  #7  
Old 05/14/2005, 09:30 AM
cutester411 cutester411 is offline
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: new hampshire
Posts: 195
wow that article was great
thanks!!
__________________
Melissa :smurf:
 

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:16 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Use of this web site is subject to the terms and conditions described in the user agreement.
Reef Central™ Reef Central, LLC. Copyright ©1999-2009