Poll: you decide fate of bristle worm

[Funky_Fish14]

Originally Posted by marie

I must have thick skin on my hands cause I've picked bristle worms up thinking they were something else without bothering me. I've even had worms get trapped under my fingernails when scrapping algae off rocks...

Hmm, same thing here for me (well, not the fingernail part, haha), but I can pick bristleworms up without irritation, unless I get loaded... but then I just 'scratched' the 'afflicted area' and no bother? I now a couple other people who can pick up bristle worms too.


I'd say its possible its also a eunice worm. These guys grow fairly large and some can end up eating critters and corals. (though most are detrivores, when large sometimes they find other food sources, lol). These are actually very neat critters to own. I'd say whatever kind of worm it is, keep it! They are so cool, and you can certainly get it used to eating food infront of you if you keep a 'feeding trend' up! BTW A eunicid worm typically has 5 'tentacles' on its head, and is usually darker brown, rusty, or black colour. Sometimes they also appear gray. These are the most common colours.

Cheers,

Chris