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Organism: Bristle Worm

Phylum Annelida

 Species: Polychaetes or segmented worms

Identification:
Bristle worms are also known as the "aelosoma worms,"

Polychaetes means having many bristles on the body.

Reproduction is by sexual means.  Nearly 10,000 species of bristle worms have been noted.

Additional Information:

Bristle worms also tolerate low oxygen conditions.  They are found in older activated sludge ages.  They are usually indicative of high nitrates present in the water.

Where they can be found:

Bristle worms can sometimes indicate the presence of high nitrates and may turn the entire system pink.

How to Find Them: Microscopic examination of a wet mount. The bright pink spots and the large bristles on the worms are easy to spot.

Check your sludge age, how long you are holding your solids in your clarifiers and if you have too many nitrates in your system.

 

 

 

Bright Field illumination 200x

 

 

 

Here part of a bristle worm  stretched out to reach food

 

 

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Grazing on floc particles

 

 


 

 

Here are his spots at 1000x

 

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Changing filters on your microscope or digital capture can bring out more details that you cannot normally see.

The bristle worm can be so large that it takes numerous fields under 1000x microscopic to view the entire organism

 

 
 

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