Ongoing debate- Bristle worms

[Reggae Fish]

Ok...after reading numerous things and speaking with people here...Bristle worms are NOT bad, right...

However, one question...If they don't eat coral but I just found one on a Acro that I have that had started browning out the last 24 hours...Would this at least irritate it causing this problem?

 

[chadfarmer]

Re: Ongoing debate- Bristle worms

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7853707#post7853707 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reggae Fish
Ok...after reading numerous things and speaking with people here...Bristle worms are NOT bad, right...

RIGHT


However, one question...If they don't eat coral but I just found one on a Acro that I have that had started browning out the last 24 hours...Would this at least irritate it causing this problem?

there is more than one reason to have an acro brown out (bristelworm might make the acro slime up a little stress to the acro but wont cause it to turn brown)

 

[dela]

Most bristleworms are good. I'm sure there are thousands of species (probably more like hundreds of thousands of species), so how can you generalize? Just hope you didn't wind up with any bad ones!

My only complaint is that sometimes when I target feed a coral, and the coral is slow to react, a bristleworm may reach up and snatch the piece of food before the coral gets to it.

Although in reality, if the coral really wanted to eat it, it probably would have had a better feeding response....

 

[Sk8r]

No. The browning coral is another issue. Some say it's related to overfeeding the tank. I have bristleworms all over my corals. They're cleaners.

 

[Reggae Fish]

Actually, I just moved my seio because it was getting a dead spot around that acro...you could see the film on top of the water in that spot...I'm hoping that's what it's from...All water parameters are coming back good

 

[hogpark7430]

Bristle worms don't harm corals. JMO