Batmom2016 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Would you say this is a huge bristle worm or a fire worm? I’ve been trying to catch it for months. 2 Quote Link to comment
Tired Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Wow, congratulations. Basically everybody who asks that has a regular bristleworm, but you definitely don't. You got something rare. That being said, has it caused any damage to anything? There are many spiny polychate worms, and plenty of them are harmless enough to your reef. 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Looks exactly like the one I pulled out of my large reeftank few weeks back. Turned out to be a fireworm that loved my LPS a little too much. 😕 2 Quote Link to comment
Batmom2016 Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 14 hours ago, Tired said: Wow, congratulations. Basically everybody who asks that has a regular bristleworm, but you definitely don't. You got something rare. That being said, has it caused any damage to anything? There are many spiny polychate worms, and plenty of them are harmless enough to your reef. I’m not sure if it caused damage, but my octospawn and my hammer are really unhappy, all of the flesh around the skeleton was eaten away. there are lots of smaller worms identical to this one in the tank too. 13 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said: Looks exactly like the one I pulled out of my large reeftank few weeks back. Turned out to be a fireworm that loved my LPS a little too much. 😕 That’s rough, I’m sorry Quote Link to comment
Batmom2016 Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 13 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said: Looks exactly like the one I pulled out of my large reeftank few weeks back. Turned out to be a fireworm that loved my LPS a little too much. 😕 This one was in my nano reef 😬 1 Quote Link to comment
Tired Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Yeah, sounds like one of the harmful ones. Can you catch a smaller one for a picture? Hopefully they're just regular bristleworms, but they might be babies of that one. Try looking up bristleworm traps on the forum, there are a few successful designs that might work. Fast reflexes with long tweezers will also help. Try moving your unhappy corals to a frag rack up on the wall. These worms can't really climb clean glass. It should work as a temporary measure until you can get the little blighters out. 1 Quote Link to comment
Batmom2016 Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 41 minutes ago, Tired said: Yeah, sounds like one of the harmful ones. Can you catch a smaller one for a picture? Hopefully they're just regular bristleworms, but they might be babies of that one. Try looking up bristleworm traps on the forum, there are a few successful designs that might work. Fast reflexes with long tweezers will also help. Try moving your unhappy corals to a frag rack up on the wall. These worms can't really climb clean glass. It should work as a temporary measure until you can get the little blighters out. this is a few I caught when I got the big one, there are some regular bristle worms in there but the majority are the same type as the big one. I will move the angry corals to my other tank until I catch these guys all up, I used dry rock in that tank, so there are no pests. Just the light in that tank won’t work for the coral I’ll have to move the light over too. 1 Quote Link to comment
Batmom2016 Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 I have decided to make a little pico to keep it in because it’s huge 😆 we named it spikey Mikey 1 4 Quote Link to comment
Tired Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Those are pretty cool. You should see how big you can get them with some nice feeding. Target-feed that largest one on purpose and see what happens. Don't let this scare you away from live rock. These guys really are pretty rare- basically every other "fireworm or bristleworm" thread is just a bristleworm. 1 Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I have held the stumps of a guys legs who tried to suicide by train I have cleaned out the eye socket of a guy who lost it due to aspergillis fungus And have seen into a man's brain, who picked his skull off with his fingernails over 9 years. Because he thought there were spiders growing in his head None of that creeps me out But the pics of those worms, give me the heebie jeebies. And they are just pics. Weird 1 Quote Link to comment
Clownfish king Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Definitely fire worm there cool in a pick by the selves but in a reef environment they are harmful Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 33 minutes ago, Clownfish king said: Definitely fire worm there cool in a pick by the selves but in a reef environment they are harmful I had a pic of Elon Musk with his Boring Company flamethrower I got banned from R2R for posting it in Bristle and Fire Worm thread Because the owner of R2R likes bristleworms Totally red pilled me, that experience did Burn It With Fire 1 Quote Link to comment
Tired Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/red-pill/ ?? And, honestly, joking about burning animals alive is kinda tasteless. It's not the worm's fault you don't like worms. I can definitely see why someone who likes them would think that wasn't funny at all. Some fireworms are harmful. It's usually better to remove them, and kill them as humanely as is reasonably possible. Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 You really should delete that post And then put me on ignore I am not the account for you to be reading 1 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 On 10/30/2020 at 2:46 PM, Batmom2016 said: I’m not sure if it caused damage, but my octospawn and my hammer are really unhappy, all of the flesh around the skeleton was eaten away. there are lots of smaller worms identical to this one in the tank too. Doubtful that it's a fireworm. I've still never seen a case where a worm has bothered a healthy coral in a healthy tank. Amphipods and Asterina starfish get mistakenly blamed the same way. How old is the tank in question? What is the backstory on the corals that appeared to be impacted? What have the test results been like, in particular for alkalinity and for nitrates and posphates? Can you post a full tank pic that shows lighting and flow? Quote Link to comment
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