This is a first for me, last night just before lights out something looked off with my Midas Blenny he was swimming up near the surface and when I looked closer he had a face full of bristles from a Bristle worm. Tough to get pictures as he would not stop swimming but you can see them a bit.
Definitely not looking too happy. I saw he had a couple the other day but guess he did not learn his lesson.
Time to build one of those Bristle worm traps as they are getting out of control. I pulled some cheato out of my sump the other day and look at these two that were in it.
Same coloration and bristles pattern as the one that got me a few weeks back and I am starting to think Fireworms now.
Is this unusual for a fish to get stuck like this? I've heard there are wrasses that will attack and eat them but how could they with those bristles?
I was thinking I might get a coral banded shrimp, I've read they are natural predators, just not sure how they would fare with my Sargassum trigger. The trigger so far has left all my Fire Shrimp alone and I still have plenty of Snails so thinking he is holding true to the more reef safe of the triggers
Definitely not looking too happy. I saw he had a couple the other day but guess he did not learn his lesson.
Time to build one of those Bristle worm traps as they are getting out of control. I pulled some cheato out of my sump the other day and look at these two that were in it.
Same coloration and bristles pattern as the one that got me a few weeks back and I am starting to think Fireworms now.
Is this unusual for a fish to get stuck like this? I've heard there are wrasses that will attack and eat them but how could they with those bristles?
I was thinking I might get a coral banded shrimp, I've read they are natural predators, just not sure how they would fare with my Sargassum trigger. The trigger so far has left all my Fire Shrimp alone and I still have plenty of Snails so thinking he is holding true to the more reef safe of the triggers