Has anyone encountered one of these?
I was cleaning some filter floss and had one about 2" long pop out into the sink. I did some research, and though there is very little info on the freshwater variety, and no info on them in aquariums. The literature suggests there are some 15k varieties of bristleworm, and only a couple live in freshwater.
The one I found was about 2" long, a pinkish fleshy color with about 100 "bristles" down each side. You could clearly see red blood in its circulatory system, which "zig zags" down the length of its body.
As for where is came from? All my plants are either from Aqua Forest or Ocean Aquarium in SF, ttrades from SFBAAPS members, and once I was part of a purchase of plants from Greenchapter. Of course that assumes it came in on some plants, and was not brought n on a fish or was already in the ECo complete in that tank.
Anyone else seen one of these?
I was cleaning some filter floss and had one about 2" long pop out into the sink. I did some research, and though there is very little info on the freshwater variety, and no info on them in aquariums. The literature suggests there are some 15k varieties of bristleworm, and only a couple live in freshwater.
The one I found was about 2" long, a pinkish fleshy color with about 100 "bristles" down each side. You could clearly see red blood in its circulatory system, which "zig zags" down the length of its body.
As for where is came from? All my plants are either from Aqua Forest or Ocean Aquarium in SF, ttrades from SFBAAPS members, and once I was part of a purchase of plants from Greenchapter. Of course that assumes it came in on some plants, and was not brought n on a fish or was already in the ECo complete in that tank.
Anyone else seen one of these?
