Buried in a previous thread I mentioned my Star Polyp colony suddenly closed. Unfortunately it has been about 4 days now with no signs of them coming back out.
Anyway I was staring at my tank a short time ago lamenting the fact that I have nothing but crappy luck with polyps of any kind. It helps my self esteem further when I read about how super hardy and easy polyps are and how they will soon be taking over my tank.
As I was leaving my beautiful reef to go upstairs and grab a cold one :Cheers: to drown my sorrows I spotted what I believe is a bristleworm poking out from in between a couple of the closed polyps. It looked mostly tan in color with snow white bristles. It was tiny by worm standards - maybe a 1/8" or less in diameter and only sticking out 1/4" or so. It seemed in no hurry to go anywhere so I sprinted upstairs to grab a tweezer. I was hoping to be able to nab it but by the time I got back to my tank it was no where to be seen.
I'm probably asking the obvious but do you think a work crawling around the colony is what is keeping it closed? It seems probable - but on the other hand if a colony like this in nature closed up for days every time something crawled on it or touched it you would think they would perish.
I have a little worm trap already fashioned up. I may try to capture the little bugger this weekend.
Anyway I was staring at my tank a short time ago lamenting the fact that I have nothing but crappy luck with polyps of any kind. It helps my self esteem further when I read about how super hardy and easy polyps are and how they will soon be taking over my tank.
As I was leaving my beautiful reef to go upstairs and grab a cold one :Cheers: to drown my sorrows I spotted what I believe is a bristleworm poking out from in between a couple of the closed polyps. It looked mostly tan in color with snow white bristles. It was tiny by worm standards - maybe a 1/8" or less in diameter and only sticking out 1/4" or so. It seemed in no hurry to go anywhere so I sprinted upstairs to grab a tweezer. I was hoping to be able to nab it but by the time I got back to my tank it was no where to be seen.
I'm probably asking the obvious but do you think a work crawling around the colony is what is keeping it closed? It seems probable - but on the other hand if a colony like this in nature closed up for days every time something crawled on it or touched it you would think they would perish.
I have a little worm trap already fashioned up. I may try to capture the little bugger this weekend.