for sure a bristle?

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  1. acemow

    acemow Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Is this just a large bristleworm? It's right on sand in center. Thanks!
     

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    acemow, Jun 18, 2009
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  2. Screwtape

    Screwtape Tonozukai Fairy Wrasse

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    Kind of small pic but it looks like one to me.
     
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  3. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Looks like a big bristle. Remove it if you can.
     
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  4. GradeAMoses

    GradeAMoses Astrea Snail

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    Looks like you have a bristleworm in the middle of the pic (don't have to remove this...just be careful when moving rock- getting stuck is comparable to a bee sting). Also, it looks like you have either a fair-sized eunicid in the right hand portion of the pic...or it's a portion of some tentacled/enlongated organism that I'm just misidentifying.
     
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  5. Yellow Tang

    Yellow Tang Bubble Tip Anemone

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    Bristle worn
     
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  6. Takara

    Takara Astrea Snail

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    6 line wrasse should eat that size, an arrow crab will remove them also (may damage coral),

    I have them and they havn't hurt anything in my tank, IDK why people are so big on removing them.
     
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  7. acemow

    acemow Purple Spiny Lobster

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    The long tentacle thing in the right side is one of the serpent star's arms. Thanks for the replies!
     
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  8. Phayes

    Phayes Aiptasia Anemone

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    Leave the bristle worm in.
    And stop picking on the poor guys- they do nothing but eat the garbage in your tank. Instead of killing them- thank them next time you see them.
     
    Phayes, Jun 19, 2009
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  9. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    they arent always harmless. I had a group eat a colony of GSPs in 2days.
     
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  10. Phayes

    Phayes Aiptasia Anemone

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    sure it was a bristleworm and not a fireworm or some other member of that family?
     
    Phayes, Jun 19, 2009
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