I NEED HELP!
 

i need help, i just seen today i have a huge thing of brissle worms! like a ton! and i look at my tank everyday and today they just started attacking! can someone lend me a fish to kill the suckers?

Matt

Attacking? attacking what?? :lol:

No fish I know of selectively eats bristleworms. Try trapping them. What I also do is target feed a macroalgae plant in one spot all the time & when enough go there, use a net to scoop out the substrate & rinse out the bristleworms. Good luck.

Don't pick 'em up with your hands or you'll be sorry. The bristles will stick into you & cause a itching sensation for days.

JME,

Anthony

my leather and mushrooms, they already ate like half of one

never heard of bristle worms eating coral. You may want to snap a pic of that.
Can you actually see them eating good tissue? Or are they feeding off of necrotic (dead) tissue?

sixline wrasses will eat bristleworms

i had pretty good luck with tweezers actually, depending on how many there are in your tank. i just grabbed them by the end and pulled. i got most of the large ones from my tank that way.DEFINATLY do not touch them with your hands like the other guy said, because you will regret doing that.

The other guy :biggrin: also thinks that 6 lines may eat them but not as a preferred food source. Would you? Get a nasty mouth full of prickles & bristles. Yuck. The little ones are ok but I've had my big ones (6"+) also attack my corals. Bit my red brain in 2 spots. Had to remove the coral into my seahorse tank & hoping to spot the big monster next time it comes out again. :evil:

Good luck & don't worry. Most humans can outsmart bristle worms :biggrin: , it mainly takes patience & effort.

Anthony

yeah I brushed by one in my tank when aquascaping last week. Felt like fiberglass shards in the fingers that I couldn't see or even wash off. Didn't tickle that for sure.


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