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11-28-2003, 06:17 AM
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Large bristleworm bothering anemone?
So as you may or may not know, I have an M. doreensis that has never eaten and recently has been moving a wee bit and not digging back into the sand. I was worried it wasn't happy because of flow, lighting or because I wasn't giving it exactly what it wanted to eat. The other day, however, I observed a very large bristleworm coming out from under the rock the anemone is in front of. Tonight I saw the worm again, this time basically under the anemone. I am wondering if the worm is bothering the anemone, hence why it keeps moving or making like it is going to move and refusing to dig in? I could easily relocate the anemone if that is a good plan or I could leave it - there is no way I will be able to get at that bristleworm though. Any thoughts?
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11-28-2003, 07:34 AM
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IYWMO,
I would set a trap for that  sucker I also read once somewhere about certain worms eating anemones, I think it was in an Ocean Frontiers article  If it's the wrong kind of worm, then nothing may be safe on your sandbed, or it might go hunting and crawling up through the rockwork 
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11-28-2003, 08:36 AM
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i have at least one foot long bristle worm and it doesn't seem to both my anems. i couldn't say what would happen if he got REALLY hungry though.
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11-28-2003, 08:44 AM
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Yes, but how many fish has it consumed!
 
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11-28-2003, 03:49 PM
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Bristleworms historically go after things that are dead or dying. I am wondering if that is the problem.
 I would think a healthy anemone would just eat a worm that was bothering it.
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11-28-2003, 06:33 PM
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We too often call every bristly worm a bristleworm. There are way too many species to clump them together like that. There are some worms, with bristles, that will actively prey on anemones/snails/clams/etc. Moving the prey might not help in a small glass box. Catching the worm might be better.
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11-28-2003, 06:41 PM
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good point, i mean, look at the BRAD variety of bristly worm
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11-28-2003, 11:23 PM
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I have millions of bristleworms and they would hang out under my LTA all the time, cleaning up crap and debris. I have photographs of them crawling around the mouth cleaning it. Certainly my type of bristleworms did him no harm whatsoever..
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