Bristle worm attacked...?

Raven312

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Two nights ago I discovered a bristle worm sticking its head out of my rock. It took me by surprise, since I've never seen one before. After doing a lot of reading and seeing that they are mostly good, I calmed down and decided to leave it alone. Yesterday I picked up a Crested Oyster Goby. I didn't do a quarantine on him because the nitrates in my quarantine tank were way too high and I didn't discover that until it was too late. I dipped the Goby and drip acclimated and placed him into my DT. He's doing very well, from what I can see. Very tiny, about an inch long. Tonight I found the bristle worm out on the sand, moving very slowly. I'm sure that my Clowns didn't attack him (I think). The Goby goes in and out of the rock and probably discovered the niche the bristle worm was hiding in. I thought at first that the Goby might be dead and spent a few hours watching for him. He finally popped out and started watching me from what seems to be his favorite perch outside of the cave that he goes to the most.

What are the chances that the Goby attacked this bristle worm? He's the only thing that's changed in my tank in the last few weeks, other than a few corals. That bristle worm would most likely have been in that rock since July. Probably more where that came from but it's the first I've seen. Any ideas if the Goby really would have attacked it??
 
I have had a breeding clown fish attack a bristle worm. I have seen them steal food from coral as well before.They came out at night and look for stuff in the sand bed. I have them all over, just be careful not to touch one.
 
If you've got one bristle worm, you probably have dozens. Don't worry about your fish killing them (if that is really happening). When I stir my sand bed up, I purposely kick the bristle worms up into the water column and my triggers eat them. You can tell they don't like them that much because they do a bunch of chewing before actually swallowing them.
 
Thanks! I figured there are a lot more. This was the first one I've seen in the tank and it took me by surprise, then surprised me again to see it dead. Somehow, I still think it was the Goby (though I have a Lubbock's Wrasse in there also).
 
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