BytheSea Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 They are in my live rock. They extend there bodys out of the rock but never completly come out. They are white, smooth, very thin in apperance. Anyone have any idaes? Link to comment
DeeZeal Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Possibly terebellid worms. http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/annelida3.html Link to comment
shao-lin nano Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 disgusting looking little thing. i think i have some too...are they safe? they don't seem to inflict any harm. Link to comment
DeeZeal Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 They are good detritavores, harmless and quite usefull (especially in deep sand beds and refugiums. You may have heard of them as Medusa and Spaghetti worms. Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Yup, nice little reef-safe fellas. (Though, technically, Medusa worms are another species altogether.) Link to comment
BytheSea Posted September 12, 2005 Author Share Posted September 12, 2005 DeeZeal... The worms I have look like the worms in the link. However the ones in my tank are individuals coming out of the crevices in my live rock, not in the sand bed. Link to comment
Reef_Mad_Man Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 aka medussa worms. AND they can grab small peices of live rockand pull them where they want them. They are definately undereated in strength. Thie rtenticles are like those sticky frog tounges you used to get in vending machines! LOL! Link to comment
gjones Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I saw something like that in ly tank the other day, with the tentacles out, they were a few inches long, but the part of the worm I saw was fairly small, about 1/3 inch Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 They can be pretty small. Link to comment
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