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Errant Polychaete
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Errant Polychaete

Common names: Bristleworm, Fireworm

Errant (wandering) polychaetes are for the most part beneficial scavengers. Resembling a centipede, they can be found crawling around the aquarium in search of detritus, left over food, dying/decaying organic matter. There are thousands of different species, a
I have seen several of these, and couldn't tell you if they were the "fireworm" variety that eats coral .. any pictures of the bad guy?
 
yeh ive had a few encounters with them and those bristles are hard to remove and are worse then any coral sting
 
Thanks, helpful information. I have some of these in my 55 gal. not too many though.
 

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