bristle worms!!! oh my!!!

[hebygb]

OK... I have a 12 gallon nano that has become overrun by bristle worms... After lights out, or when I feed Rods Food, my LR looks like Medusas head... so.... I have been hunting.... baiting them with a raw shrimp, and then snagging them with hemostats.... extracted about 12 so far.

There is a reason that the big one got so big about 10" and as thick as a pencil... he is VERY cautious....

My question for the boards is, If I get in a tug of war with one, and they tear, do they die, or do they regenerate?

 

[cbr600rri]

they won't die. You basically end up with 2 pieces. They don't really regenerate, like shrimps/crabs. They'll just start growing from those 2 pieces. You need to remove the entire piece. good luck!

 

[hebygb]

LOL... well no problem... I didnt let go of the half in my tweezers. So now that worm is just shorter and perhaps a tad wiser... I may have lost that battle, but I will win this war.

 

[cbr600rri]

haha. btw, if you know which rock it's in and there are no corals attached to it, you can always remove the rock and just let it air dry.

 

[hebygb]

being a 12 gallon nano, there are corals on every rock. I will get him... its become kind of a nightly sport... I'm talking with VS to see if they want to televise it.