what type of worm??

[dragon79]

Here it is:

Doesn't look like a bristleworm. It's in my girlfriends 12 gallon jbj.

Funny thing, I take this thing out, I toss it in the toilet, and I begin to wonder.....what do they put in toilet water these days?? lol....I saw that worm begin to dissolve before my very eyes. It literally turned into a pile of "Goo" I was no longer able to identify it after that. I gave it a nice flush and that was the end of that, haha.

Does anybody know what it is, or I should say....what it was??

 

[drty811]

i also have one in my twenty,but the one i have is grey and i have yet to catch it.
the first and only time ive seen it in my tank , it was sticking out of the LR about an inch and it would pump itself and release a white cloudy substance. this is the only way i would of noticed it. it clouded up half my tank. thats when i tried to catch it.......no luck. great pic. ive been looking and thats the first pic ive seen, anywhere

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Looks like it might be a Eunice worm, possible of the Oenonidae sp. Oenone fulgida maybe.

 

[dragon79]

so a dangerous worm then perhaps? Species of a fireworm or something or no?

 

[Jennie]

How long was it Steven? What was it doing to get evicted? Just curious.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

If it was an Oenone, then yes...predatory. Check through this link for more info on eunice worms - http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-04/rs/index.htm

 

[leaffish75]

i caught the same thing. mine was about 4inches long. i saw it in a snail shell eating a dead snail.

 

[dragon79]

the slithering monster predator was enourmous, :shock: it almost took my finger!

Okay okay so it wasn't quite like that. :mrgreen: Basically I saw it as my girlfriend was doing a water change, it was slithering on the surface of the water. So it quite easy to scoop him up in the net. I knew it didn't look like your typical worm, so I took it out. Heck, there are enough bristleworms in there as it is, no need for a distant cousin. That thing must have been about an inch and a half long or so.

 

[mikeguerrero]

Dragon,

From the looks of the pic, I say it is a predator worm. Look at it's mouth, it has the shape of a beak. And I've seen worms like that tear into corals, especially clams...

When you cannot identify, pull it out... Better to be safe the sorry.

Mike

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

i caught the same thing. mine was about 4inches long. i saw it in a snail shell eating a dead snail.

You caught him eating a snail that it had attacked and killed. Exactly what they prey on. :gcool

 

[drty811]

shitty, mine was sticking out of the LR about an inch. wonder how long it really is.
guess ill keep an eye out for it from now on. any suggestions on how to get rid of it?

 

[dragon79]

if it's an easy rock to remove, take it out and douse it in ice cold fresh water, they'll come out wiggling all out like crazy.

Sometimes if you leave the LR out for a little bit in a bowl, they end up falling out.

If your LR is something that' a PITA to remove, then you'd need those plastic traps you can order online

 

[mikeguerrero]

If that doesn't work, drop in an aquatic frog, they love worms... J/K Hope you remove that worm...

Mike

 

[drty811]

thanks ill have to try the trap, the rock its in ,of course the largest in the tank and on the bottum.