Sea Hair Killer?

[Coderad]

I pick up a sea hair and it lasted 1 day, got another one lasted 3 days, found him with thin 10" Worm eating him. Is it possible that the worm killed them or would this be somthing that started eating after they were dead?

This is the third one of these worms I have pulled out. Nothing new added except the sea hairs in like 6 months.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/CodeRad/WOrm.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/CodeRad/worm2.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/CodeRad/worm3.jpg

Thanks Cody

[Pier Pressure]

Well if it makes you feel any better I had one that lasted about three days, too, and I did not have any worms like that. That thing does not strike me as a predator - no big teeth or claws - so I am thinking it was just cleaning up the body, so to speak.

I know a couple of other people who had sea hares die on them in no time - is it just very delicate, or what? Anyone else?

[Der_Iron_Chef]

I've had mine for a year....no clue as to why I got lucky! But I agree that the worms were probably just scavanging what was already dead.

[Myka]

That's just a type of bristleworm (some get huuuuuuuuuuuuuge!) which will feed on the already dead sea hare (or anything else), but they are not predators. I can't help you with the death of the hares though other than it's possible that they were close to starvation before you bought them, and there was no way to turn that around, or possibly you didn't acclimate them well enough. :(

[dareefguy]

I found out the hard way that flatworm exit will kill sea hair's. unfourtunate for me I think they poisened the rest of my tank in the process.