Fire!!!!!

well fire worm.. i saw 2 in the tank and got nailed by 1 cleaning out a prefilter.. what eats these things? i can deal with bristle worms but not fire worms lol

 

CBS. not sure what else. They come with their own problems though.

 

what happened to you when you got stung?

 

cb deff eat them? i know bristle worms but i wasnt sure bout fire worms...what bout arrow crabs?

at first it was like bristle worm sting but after a min or 2 the pain kicked in ... similar to a lionfish sting or rabbit fish .... some swelling lots of pain... into hot water then vinager ...duct taped the splinters out and now its pretty red swelling is starting to go down pain is going away already... i may have built up an immunity lol ive been tagged afewe times before by venomous fish and poisonous uchins lol

 

wow... ive for a foxface and am always worried about him stinging me... everyday he grows less timid, and actually ate seaweed out of my hand today!

 

bristle

Some decent reading.

I would not put an arrow crab within 50 feet of a reef tank.

 

Amen to that. Crabs in general are a bad idea for reef tanks; even hermits can be a problem.

 

i was told that 6line wrasses, and possibly other varieties, would eat bristle worms. i'm assuming once the worms get large enough the wrasses become obsolete.

 

this is a mostly fowlr...its got afew leathers so im not to worried bout destruction. i couldnt tell any lengths but they wer deff pretty fat bout half as wide asa pencil.

as far as stingage foxface stings hurt more for a shorter period then lions ,cant compare to fire worms bc it depends how long the bristles r in u

 

How do you know that it's a fireworm and not just a common bristleworm? Did you see it? I ask because you can get the same burning sensation/reaction from a bristleworm.