Now that's a worm!!!

[DJ88]

Brad,

How do you believe the worms kill the snails? They don't have a mouth to attach themselves or bite with. They eat rotting flesh by sucking it in. That is it.

I have never seen one kill anything. and in my old 90 I had one that was nearly as big as the one I have now. It would leave a small groove in the sand as it moved around at night. I watched it at night move right past many many snails, crabs and shrimp. It never attacked or killed one. Tho if I saw one that wasn't looking well in the days before it would go afer that one once it died. how I determined it wasn't going to make it or recover was it would not attach itself to the glass and climb. And I have had lots of those happen over the last year.

The threads I have here are all ones where Dr Shimek is asked various questions about bristle worms. I have read them before at one time or another and found them all to be very informative. As a marine Bio who made inverts in the ocean his career, I figure his talks about the benefits and such for bristle worms is very good info to follow.

Worms 1

Worms 2

slurpy worms

great worm thread.

[ 20 December 2001: Message edited by: DJ88 ]

[ 20 December 2001: Message edited by: DJ88 ]