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what is this wierd looking wormy thing


mrnewbie

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can someone I.D this for me it seems to be alive, well its crawled from the back of the tank to the side (i think)and its wiggling about @ 1 end not the bulbous end, the other end

 

 

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and heres the other end

 

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id say its a peanut worm or echiuran ... or (unlikely, but to keep in the spirit of this thread) a member of phylum priapulida (which means literally, 'the penis')

 

unless it does something nasty (like die) id leave it

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I agree with newbiecarlz, it looks very much like the peanut worms I find in sedinment samples at work. I don't know much about them but if you don't see that it is affecting anything and you don't have anything sensitive like corals or seahorses in the tank I would leave it in there as a unique addition.

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I've broken LR open for aquascaping when I first started Marine tanks last december,and found a couple of those in holes inside the rock. I took them to the LFS and they told me peanut worms, and that they were harmless, so I put them back in my 5G, and haven't seen them since.

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