Critterposting, WormWednesday 

#critterposting

It's WORM WEDNESDAY and I'm gonna do a little posty about polychaete worms. Polychaetes are annelid worms, mostly marine, and mainy are covered in hairs.

The ones posted below are the classic aquarium bristle worms. They hitchhike in live rock (rock harvested from the ocean used in reef tanks to propagate bacteria), and emerge at night to snack on detritus in the tank.

Those bristles aren't just for show and are quite sharp, they can cause pretty bad irritation.

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re: Critterposting, WormWednesday 

@daylight we need more polychaetes in our media. they're BEGGINg to be cool aliens with an irl basis, or rad water type pokemon, or so on

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