Bristle worms eat clams?

[jamal-188]

I've read numerous places that bristle worms are beneficial to reef tanks for various reason such as stirring up the sand bed and eating detrius in the sand.

However, I was just reading in The Conscientious Marine Aquarist that they can eat clams. It seems every time I peer into my tank I notice another huger bristle worm. Anybody have problems or recomendatiions.

 

[reefrunner69]

Bristle worms tend to get a bad rap cause of their clean up nature. Clams, when they go, go fast, beautiful when the lights go out and dead when you get up i the am. Often times you find nothing but a bristleworm ridden clamshell, this tends to foster the opnion that bristleworms eat clams. They will clean up the remains after it has expired, but they do not kill them.