Mido Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 saw it at night time while feeding my scoly it is very thin less than a mm and about maybe 5-8 mm long and swims in a corkscrew manner then stops and glides and then. swim again couldn't catch it ,,, any idea? Quote Link to comment
RayWhisperer Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Probably an epitoke by the swimming description. About the only other thing I can think of that would swim in that fashion would be a lancelet. However, unless you just set up your tank with real, fresh, ocean collected live sand, that’s pretty much an impossibility. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jozefs a lizard Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 since . there is no picture, i assume it is an arrow worm. They wont do any harm, unless you love copepods and amphipods as they eat them Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Agree with Ray ...... epitoke Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 On 1/1/2019 at 1:33 AM, RayWhisperer said: epitoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitoky Seems like this is just a polychete that's "gone sexual"....could even be bristleworms from the sound and pictures of it. (All the pics on Wikipedia look like bristleworms.) Is that right? On 2/4/2019 at 7:05 PM, Jozefs a lizard said: arrow worm Can you guess it's a specific worm like this with any certainty? I haven't heard of theses. Quote Link to comment
RayWhisperer Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 2 hours ago, mcarroll said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitoky Seems like this is just a polychete that's "gone sexual"....could even be bristleworms from the sound and pictures of it. (All the pics on Wikipedia look like bristleworms.) Is that right? Yes. I guess the simplest way to describe it would be a portion of any polychaete worm that separates for reproductive purposes. They swim through the water in a corkscrew manner. Understand, this is just a best guess. Positive ID, in your case is likely going to prove impossible. An epitoke is just a "most likely" ID. While not often seen, they are very common. Quote Link to comment
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