Worm ID request and Advice on what to do with them

[Tieg]

My wife recently bought a colony of Zoanthids on some live rock about 3 days ago. This morning while feeding the fish she noticed a gray bristle worm come out about 2 inches....then went back into the live rock with zoanthids. I had a buddy of mine over and we saw it again in the live rock so we got some tweezers and attempted to pull it out...in the comic way things go it was pulled out of the rock but slipped out of the tweezers. I was able to recapture it but in the process found another type of worm. Here is the pic of the bristle worm (I'm pretty sure thats what it is):

For size reference...here is the same worm with a penny:

Now here is the worm we found in the process of catching the above worm:

My question is what kind of worm is it? Is it good or bad? If good I'll put it back in the tank...if not...well my last question...do I feed it to the big bristle worm and then use him for fish bait? Thanks for any and all response.

Also, if my buddy posts a stupid reply about how comic it was ... its all lies and I disavow all knowledge of it :badgrin:

 

[Damsel13]

you sir are a master a capturing things!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tieg]

bump Caught a smaller version of the bristle worm above this morning. Looks just like it but smaller is all...about an inch. Still curious about that 2nd worm though...I still have it alive and hoping to get input on whether or not it needs to go back into the tank or not.

 

[burning2nd]

i have monster bristle worms in the nano....

anything that will eat em?

 

[chris&barb]

you have two bad bristle worms. the first is hermodice http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=292 and the second is an eunice http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/e_aphroditois.html

the only thing you can do is catch them

 

[brady816]

thats a bristle worm dont touch it like i did

 

[Damsel13]

So where did ya get that live rock?

 

[jedimike]

He about got stung... I'm sure I would have LMAO, and then asked him if he was ok later... as friends typically do

thats a bristle worm dont touch it like i did

 

[Snowboarda42]

Wow glad I took the ones out in my tank that look like that gray one

 

[Tieg]

He about got stung... I'm sure I would have LMAO, and then asked him if he was ok later... as friends typically do

Now that I know Jedimike would have asked later I think I found a new home for the bristle worms ..... Hey Mike...whats those bristleworms doing in your tank?

Deb,

Got the small chunk of live rock from a local dealer in Poulsbo, WA. The zoanthids are cool though...I'll post a pic in a bit of the live rock with the zoanthids.

 

[Tieg]

Here is the zoanthids that were mounted on the rock. Its a small rock sitting on top of one of my main pieces of live rock. The worm was more or less intertwining with the stalks of zoanthids. The small guy...I just happen to look in the tank the next day and there he was totally out frolicking on the sand....easy catch.