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[denisec]

I was just looking in my seahorse tank and I saw a long skinny thing slimming it's way along the bottom. I guess he rode in on some live rock. I'm hoping ya'll can help me fiqure out what it is and if it is good or bad. In this tank all I have is: 1 seahorse, 1 green/blue legged crab, a couple of snails. This thing is a couple/few inches long and has feelers/legs all up and down the edges of it's body. It is flat and bland/netural colored. It has a head at one end cause I saw it on a small piece of something/food in the bottom on the tank and looked like it was eating it, though that end didn't really look any different from the other end. Greepy looking thing.
Denise

 

[mr . salty]

Most likly just a bristle worm..I have quite a few of them in my seahorse tank,and welcome thier presence.They will help to keep the substrate clean and stirred up...

 

[denisec]

I would say that looks exactly like the guy in my tank. Do they reproduce asexually? I don't think I have any in my other tank and I am starting a new tank at work. I was wondering if they have a population outbreak like freshwater snails. If so I could shuffle some around. Sounds like they are good rubbish eaters. Though the guys in my other tank are so greedy there isn't any rubbish (must take after me )

 

[salttrigger]

Hey Sammy if you say that Bristleworms are now part of the cleanup crew,how come most of the books that I have say to avoid this species?
[ August 13, 2001: Message edited by: Salttrigger ]

 

[seatank]

Sammy dose this worm have pinches like the sea worms used for fishing?

 

[salttrigger]

How do I know if I have this worms in my tank? its been runing for about 2 years, it has 70 pounds of LR,DSB and I have never seen any worms.

 

[flydan]

Hey,
I see them out during the day from time to time. Since my tank sits on an iron stand I can shine a flashlight under my tank and see the glass bottom. I can see lots of little tunnels/tracks where these guys move around. Kinda neat.
Take care,
Dan'l
PS. Mentioned them to a lfs guy once and he whipped out a book with a picture of a bristle worm wrapped around the head of a wrasse. (I think it was a wrass) Freaked me out until I check with everyone here!