Anyone had this happen to their fish? Bristle worm attacked my tailspot blenny?????

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I support that this happens and it has happened to me. I don't think that the bristleworm makes deliberate contact with the fish...just that certain fish have habits that put them in the same place at the same time.

In my case, I had a red-head blenny that spent much of it's time inside holes in my LR. Over the many years I had him, he would frequently have bristle worm spines sticking out of his head and sometimes out of his eyes. I never attempted to remove them and they didn't seem to cause any long term damage.