Poll: you decide fate of bristle worm

[sphelps]

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...

They won't bother you if you're gentle and simply pick them up, but if you're picking up a rock or something else and don't realize it's there you may apply enough pressure to get a hand full of bristles. They're like little shards of fiberglass you can barely see and difficult to remove. I use to say the same as you until it happened to me but don't worry your time will come