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I have seen this little bugger twice... Once on a lights off stakeout using a red flashlight (darted too quick into rock) and again tonight under my yumas (lights on and darted back into the rock as I was walking by).

 

It looked from the half second It was exposed, like a black centipede (too fast to get more than a glimpse).

 

I found this pic from another forum using google search and it was posted by Albert Thiel as a black worm. I am 80-85% certain this is what I saw:

 

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Only dead livestock was a dead peppermint shrimp a month ago which I blamed on my red leg hermits...Shall I be concerned (besides the fact that it is creepy as heck :))

 

Here is the hole it withdrew into... Lightning fast:

 

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Guessing a bobbit and will require trapping?

 

EDIT: yep, i can see its head in another hole where the light passes throught the orange yuma and is in fact what's pictured above! Yikes. Creepy.

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Hello Patback. It is a 5.5 AGA tank, custom built red oak base and hood (tank build/log: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/365474-silvers-55-custom-aga-verts-and-rics/).Verts and coral only. I dont mind keeping it as long as it doesnt kill the CUC or corals. Guess for now I will refer to it as "the ninja" :P. Minus the stealth kills of course. Have plenty of fat sphaeromatid isopods to keep it complacent (hopefully?). I still need to ID it though. I have wanted to do a yuma/vert tank for many years and dont need a turd in the punch bowl!

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Yeh. I wouldn't trust one with inverts unfortunately but if you get it out in sure there is someone with a pest tank that would love it.

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I will just let nature take its course for now. Outside of the peppermint shrimp that kept his or her butt in a hole in the live rock, the rest of the clean up crew is doing fine and all the yumas are puffed out. Guess i better forget sexys and/or pom poms for now and stick with the yuma bed. Bet a mithrax crab would take it out though (and whatever else it wanted if it was hungry lol).

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My advice, take it out if you can!
I once had a bobbit-worm and i had to tear my tank down to take it out. It lived in my greenstarpolyp and ate it from the inside :furious:

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It looks like a tube worm with out it's feathers and out of it's tube there also known as a feather duster

Feather Dusters don't scurry... Nope.

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Probably a black bobbit worm, Eunice Aphroditois. You need to get rid of it, or it will kill anything and everything in the tank. These things can get to be 9 feet long.

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First off black worms aren't polychaetes, they are oligochaete worms in the genus Lumbriculus, especially Lumbriculus variegatus. What you have there is some species of Eunicidae, but eve hours of research will make clear the reason why I don't know even what genus or species you have, simply there is a lot of missing information about these worms, of all the information isn't posted online, one of the two.

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I say you should test if he will kill a fish by wiggling some meat in front of the burrow, if he explodes out of the burrow and takes it , you have your answer.

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