I found a two different filter type feeders and decided to try feeding them brine shrimp... they ate 3 each and might have taken more... didn't want to over feed them (once I get a better camera, I'll post them for ID).
The smaller of the two was taking it's time on the 3rd shrimp and I notice a bristle worm slowly creeping up on it. I decided to watch as I knew there had been a small piece of brine that missed the target. As I suspected, the worm tried a couple times to get to the exposed half of the last brine but pulled back each time it touched a tentacle of the... filter feeder thing. It finally got around to a higher point of rock and grabbed the brine.... then started tugging to pull it away. I didn't want to have a tug-of-war, so I sucked the worm up in the eye dropper. I have read that they will cause problems anyway, so I decided to remove the worm from the tank... was I over reacting? Should I have left it alone?
The smaller of the two was taking it's time on the 3rd shrimp and I notice a bristle worm slowly creeping up on it. I decided to watch as I knew there had been a small piece of brine that missed the target. As I suspected, the worm tried a couple times to get to the exposed half of the last brine but pulled back each time it touched a tentacle of the... filter feeder thing. It finally got around to a higher point of rock and grabbed the brine.... then started tugging to pull it away. I didn't want to have a tug-of-war, so I sucked the worm up in the eye dropper. I have read that they will cause problems anyway, so I decided to remove the worm from the tank... was I over reacting? Should I have left it alone?