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Found this in my seahorse tank..It is a orange red color with a grey/black butt...It has alot of friends with him too...!
JennM;367634 wrote: Which book? The Captive Reef? If so, written a long time ago. Not sure if he still has the same opinion (I'll ask him next time I speak with him)... literature of that era suggested the worms are bad - IMO they were misunderstood.
They won't harm healthy tissue but they will clean up dead/dying tissue. I think that people have mistaken their activities as "killing" stuff - they don't kill stuff but if its on its way out, they will take advantage.
In the big picture - you want that. Better to have something consumed when it's freshly dead or almost dead, than have it rot and foul the water.
Jenn