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09-25-2012, 01:22 AM
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heres something i bet most people dont know , you can actually pick a bristle worm up and not have them stick you , its when you make them mad or scare them they tighten up and push their bristles out. i caught one a while ago that was floating, i didnt realize it was a bristle worm i actually let it crawl across my hand.....no bristles. now if i went to pick it up with tweasers or squeezed it or poked it it would have been all over my hand. drop one on a plate with some water after a few seconds for them to stop being mad their bristles do not stick out like they were. when you see them move across the rocks they have bristles in neat little bunches , a bristle worm that is mad has a full vest of bristles going in every direction  still though...theyre icky and taste bad sooo :P:P
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09-25-2012, 01:26 AM
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Arrow Crabs eat bristle worms. I had one a while back cleaned most of them out of my tank.
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09-25-2012, 01:33 AM
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Unfortunately there will always be bristleworms in the tank. Always. Waiting....
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09-25-2012, 02:58 AM
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09-25-2012, 03:04 AM
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'Tis all good :P
I'm fine with pretty much anything else ,just not bristleworms ,peanut worms ,and other nastey little worm like hitchhikers. Edit : The best thing I could think of to comapare it to is people who are scared of snakes. I love snakes ,own 4 of them ,and think that being scared of snakes is beyond stupid. However there are people that can not even be in a room with snakes ,let alone look at them. Pretty much the same thing with me and bristleworms ,to a lesser scale. Last edited by FWC; 09-25-2012 at 03:07 AM.
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09-26-2012, 06:28 PM
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I fear you're chances of having a bristleworm free tank are pretty close to zero. You'll think you got them all, then one night, when you least expect it, you'll see one slithering from on hole of your rock to another. You won't know how it got there, but the chances are good that if you can see even a single one, there are dozens to hundreds more in there that you'll never see. Nothing will ever be able to eat them all once they're in there, because bristleworms are very rarely out in the open where something could eat them. They spend most of their time under/inside rocks, making more and more bristleworms to replace the unlucky few who do get noticed and removed, or eaten by a predator.
Perhaps a little exposure therapy is in order?
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09-25-2012, 01:51 AM
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absolutely lol after the first half dozen go down the rest are a breeze:P:P just plug your nose, close your eyes and chew fast.....then wish to god you were dead lol 
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