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09-12-2004, 08:38 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Jersey, GA,Georgia
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 |  Strange Unidentified Worm
I've had a worm (like most it only showed up at night) in my tank for a while that I couldn't identify but I started noticing that it was getting to be a real predator...it was eating my tube worms as fast as it could and stealing food from anything else close by. I've done a little research and I think it is a plumed worm. It is kind of salmon colored and very iridescent and as I mentioned definitely a predator. It also has several antenna extending from the front of his head and it has two small antenna like things on his rear-end.
Well I had a rock close to where this worm lived with about 20 tube worms on it and now I'm down to less that 10. I was wanting to add more inverts to my tank but was nervous about what this thing would do to them. My LFS suggested that I take the rock out it is living in and put it directly into freshwater and flush him out...well I did it...at this point I'm willing to sacrifice a rock to get the @%*%^ out of my tank. He still didn't come out but I knew that it must have killed him. I needed to be sure that I had, so I took a chisel and busted the rock up and low and behold there he was...he was HUGE...he broke in half but as a whole he had to have been 10 1/2 inches long. I'm looking for somebody to either confirm my suspicions or tell me what this thing is. I've attached a photo...please somebody end the suspense!!! :'( :'( >  > 
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15 gallon tank w/10 gallon refugium, modified skilter 250, dual actinic/dual daylight, 30 lbs live rock, 20lbs live sand, 9 astrea, 5 blue leg hermits, 2 brittle stars, 1 sand sifting stars, zoanthids, green star polyps, Rose BTA, False clown, Citron Goby, Skunk Cleaner.
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09-12-2004, 08:47 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN,Indiana
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
potato worm...bad news
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09-12-2004, 08:48 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Jersey, GA,Georgia
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
I just saw the other post about the guy who saw one in his LFS. Are these things rare?? | |
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09-12-2004, 08:48 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN,Indiana
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
Somewhere else in this board i posted a story about our lfs who found one 7', SEVEN FEET, long in their coral tank. Yes they are very predatorial. | |
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09-12-2004, 08:49 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN,Indiana
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
I am really not sure, I think so
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09-12-2004, 08:50 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN,Indiana
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
I wonder if they're good in tequila?
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09-12-2004, 08:53 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Jersey, GA,Georgia
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
Well either way...he's dead and my tank is the better for it I think. I'm going to give my tank a few days to settle back down...I had to tear the thing apart to get to the rock he was living in...needless to say he was in a rock on the bottom. Do you know where I can find out more information about it? I also had two sand sifting stars that are RIP...one had been torn up pretty bad so I pulled him out and the other just disappeared...do you think he ate them? | |
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09-12-2004, 08:54 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN,Indiana
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| Re: Strange Unidentified Worm
From what I heard, they are similar but have those tubes that come out of their mouths. Not quite as much bristle as a fireworm or bristleworm. I figure if we can talk him inot touchin it with his wrist we'll find out. | |
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09-12-2004, 08:55 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Jersey, GA,Georgia
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Let me just say...this sucker about drove me to drink...tequila or anything else for that matter...I've been struggling with this for about 4 months. | |
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