I NEED HELP!

[littleboyblue16]

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

[Aquattro]

Attacking? attacking what??

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

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

[littleboyblue16]

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

[Aquattro]

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?

[Edmonton Eskimo]

sixline wrasses will eat bristleworms

[Keen]

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.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

The other guy 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.

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

Anthony

[bulletsworld]

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.