bristle worm GOOD

have you ever heard of this....


Website selling bristle worms....
Baby BristleWorms™
Most experienced reefkeepers strongly believe in the beneficial effects of bristle worms on the sand bed. We hold the view that bristle worms and other sand bed scavengers are vitally important components of reef ecosystems, both captive and wild. Our Baby Bristle Worms package comes with 6 fine young specimens, all about 0.5 - 1.0 inches in length. Our clams and corals are grown in commercial mariculture tanks in close proximity with literally thousands of happily breeding bristleworms. Simply put, bristleworms are to reef tanks what earthworms are to gardens. Bristle worms constantly stir the reef tank sand bed and help keep it aerobic. They consume uneaten fish food and fish waste, preventing dead and decaying organic matter from accumulating on top of the sand bed. Baby Bristle Worms will mature rapidly and reproduce to levels that are consistent with the available resources (food and space) in your reef tank. 100% Captive-Bred.

 

That's funny that they are selling them. They have to be in the top ten most common hitch hikers.

Michael Rice
Marine Engineers Aquarium Blog
Sent from Tapatalk so excuse my poor English

 

i agree but its funny how things are always changing.... You always hear they are bad but now im hearing that they are good.....

 

2+yrs reefing and I've never heard one bad thing about them except fer their sting
I've always had them in my tank. Keeping them in check via min feeding and spot feeding my corals. A lot of peps are buying clean dry rock to control the unwanted hitchhikers. Hence the selling of the bristle worms

 

I have 100s of them and they have never caused me any problems. The only trouble they cause is they snatch up leftover food before any of my shrimp can grab it. Poor shrimp.

 

definitely a good part of the cuc.

 

That site has been selling them for a very long time. I bought some back in 2003 after a tank crash. When I started back in 2002, bristleworms were commonly thought of as bad. By 2003, people were starting to understand that most are not bad. Lots of people still perpetuate the myth, though, even now.