Do bristleworms eat snails?

[Anonymous]

My wife snapped this photo a few minutes ago:

 

[Unarce]

They're attracted to decay, so if the snail is at death's door, it's just waiting like a buzzard.

If you're wondering if it would go after a healthy snail, it couldn't do much more than lick it to death.

 

[Anonymous]

Well the snail shook it off, so I assume it isn't at death's door, unless the bristle worm opened it up.

 

[Anonymous]

I dunno reefnutz, Ive heard of stories (mainly fireworms) ganging up on fish and devouring them like a pack of wolves..Actually it was an article I read at my local LFS...Ill try to find it to quote it....

 

[Unarce]

Yeah, fireworms are a whole other can of....worms :? . The skinny bicolored one that wgscott pictured are the reefsafe kind.

 

[Anonymous]

Good. Because I actually purchased these little bastards a few years ago.

 

[mehdirah]

My aquarium is full of those worms for years. I cannot say for snails as I don't have snails, but I never had any problem with them and fishes/corals/clams/ursin.

 

[Anonymous]

I've only seen them eat dead snails. However, if there is not sufficient food stuffs for them I would expect them to turn predatory.

 

[Anonymous]

If you look closely you can see that the head of the Fireworm is actually pointing out of the snail shell. It look to me like the worm was just looking for a place to hide.