ID Help: Yet Another Bristle Worm?

[EBR]

It's amazing what you find with a bit of re-scaping, house cleaning, and new-coral-placement after a WAMAS meeting.  I see much smaller versions of this in the tank, and understand that they can be good scavengers as part of a clean up crew, but this thing is huge (didn't know they'd get this big).  Any confirmation that's what it is?  Any concern?

 

125g, mostly softies, LPS, and a few easy SPS (digitata and monti caps)

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

Thanks.

Matt

Edited February 21, 2016 by EBR

[gmerek2]

Any corals getting eaten? Im thinking its just a large one. But im not a worm guru

[EBR]

Not that I've noticed.  Although, after yesterday's WAMAS take-home of zoos, Acan, montis, and a brain maze, I don't know if they'll get mistaken for a food court!  

[Keraxis]

Think its just a bristle worm. Color isnt quite right for a fireworm and its not a bushy fireworm because those are distinctive.  I typically leave them in.  They are great and keeping your rock work clean. 

[SandJ]

I'm not a worm expert, but could that be a fireworm and not a regular bristle worm?

[Anemone]

You could throw it into a quarantine and try to find out what it eats (or whether it eats anything you care about).

[mogurnda]

I can't see the tentacles or jaws on yours, but the body looks just like this two foot eunicid that I had for several years.  It ate everything it could swallow (mushrooms, turtle grass!), and would be considered undesirable by most definitions.

Edited February 24, 2016 by mogurnda

[Sharkey18]

Looks suspicious to me. Doesn't look like a bristle worm. 

[SunWyrm]

Looks perfectly normal to me. Mine used to get ridiculously large in my 600g system, but they never hurt a thing. 

There's a really good article floating around on the different worms and how to tell them apart, but I can never find it when someone needs it 

Edited February 24, 2016 by SunWyrm

[YHSublime]

My vote would be bristle worm, not that I'm any expert myself.

 

After seeing that picture of the eunicid above, it does look remarkably the same comparing a bristle vs. eunicid google image search.

[donnievaz]

Looks like a bristleworm to me, check out this thread on RC about Eunicids. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1775803

[EBR]

Hey, thanks, Everyone.  While nowhere nearly as gruesome as this one -- thanks for the link, donnie -- mine has been evicted.  All of the recent re-scaping caused him to venture around a bit and get in the way, irritating some corals.  Had to go.

[zygote2k]

It's a common Bristleworm. If you see one, there are hundreds more. Very beneficial for the tank- if you see a huge amount of them, it may be an indicator that your tank has excess nutrient buildup.

 

If you touch them, the spines are easily dissolved in vinegar.

 

FWIW, If you get 20 or 30 large ones, throw them in lime juice overnight, rinse, then throw in deep fryer.

Yum!

[YHSublime]

It's a common Bristleworm. If you see one, there are hundreds more. Very beneficial for the tank- if you see a huge amount of them, it may be an indicator that your tank has excess nutrient buildup.

 

If you touch them, the spines are easily dissolved in vinegar.

 

FWIW, If you get 20 or 30 large ones, throw them in lime juice overnight, rinse, then throw in deep fryer.

Yum!

Use in batter for Mantis Shrimp Bites

 

 

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