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This is where you really need to do a minute examination of the mouth parts to see what you're dealing with. Only about 5% of bristleworms are coral eaters.
The bearded fireworm, Hermodice carunculata, is another famous coral eater. It used to be that every time a coral enthusiast pulled a bristleworm out of their tank it just "had" to be H. carunculata. The fact is that these show up very rarely in aquariums. The bobbit worm is even less often seen.
Bristleworms have been pulled out of tanks that were in the tens of feet long. No-one ever realized they were there because most of them are happy to be part of your clean-up crew, hoovering up detrituts, lost food and dead carcases.
Do some research. Google is your friend.
Dave.M
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