Bangguy!

[woolfolkd]

I would have pm'd you but I cant yet. I have one quick question for you. You always say how good bristle worms are. I saw a bristle worm trap for sale is this just commercial hype or what? It said something about bristle worms "eating your prize specimens".Thank you.

 

[spline9]

Well I by no means am BangGuy but I think this may be a sufficient answer to your question...
It was once thought that bristleworms were bad for a tank, eating up livestock. Now its understood that they are actually benificial detritus eaters and scavengers. They got the bad rep because people found them all over livestock that was sick or dying. They got the blame but they were, in fact, just eating the dead tissue. I actually have one of those traps. They work quite well. Unfortunately, I found out that they were good after I removed a large number of them. Now I have very few.
Anyhow, dont bother with the trap unless you have infesting amounts of them. They are good critters.

 

[nas19320]

Originally posted by woolfolkd
I would have pm'd you but I cant yet..
Just so you know, you'll never be able to pm as the function has been disabled.

 

[bang guy]

spline9 said it for me.
There are a few bad ones out there so you still need to keep an eye on your stuff. They're quite uncommon though.