really weird thing!?

Discussion in 'ID This!' started by Dingo, Jun 3, 2010.

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  1. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    Tomita has taught me to learn to ID things....she is like...Misses Miagi when it comes to IDing...glad she agreed 100% with me :)
     
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  3. LeslieH

    LeslieH Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Ah...er...ahem....sorry.....

    It's easy to be fooled with these guys. It's not a spagetti worm. Those are in the polychaete family Terebellidae. It's in family Cirratulidae - the hair worms. Take a look at images posted by some friends of mine -
    Cirratulid polychaete from Sao-Tome on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
    Spaghetti Worm! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    We have a nice discussion about the differences between the two types in the last link. Both families consist of detritivores so either way you've got a good addition to your CUC. Some of the species found in reef tanks reproduce by splitting so the population may increase, especially if there's a lot of food.
     
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  4. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    I dunno still looks like the speghetti worm more to me...i'm not a worm expert though..lol
     
  5. Peredhil

    Peredhil Giant Squid

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    I guess I feel some relief that I'm not the only one that questions that being a flying spaghetti monster, er, I mean spaghetti worm.
     
  6. hydrojeff

    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    i have many in my fuge that live in the sand as well, some really deep and some live on the surface?
     
  7. Big Al's Online

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    I have had the pleasure of looking at that sp. of spaghetti worm under a high powered microscope - very, very cool indeed!
     
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  9. LeslieH

    LeslieH Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Sure it was that particular one? There are probably a couple of hundred species in each family.... :) But you're right, they are very cool animals!
     
  10. LeslieH

    LeslieH Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Yeah, it's hard at first but after the first 500 or so you get an eye for them LOL
     
  11. Pelado

    Pelado Montipora Digitata

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    I also think it's a kind of spaghetti worm, so no harm.... It will do its job as part of your CUC.
     
  12. Seano Hermano

    Seano Hermano Giant Squid

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    yes, it is some form of spaghetti worm, or related to one. Identification is difficult, even just between the two sample pictures given by the previous links. One part making it difficult is lighting, the other, is size. The lights in the tank are a bit blue in Dingo's picture, & because the actual specimen is of such small size, well obviously that makes it hard to see..

    What Dingo has, looks somewhat like Fig. 2, through color. Meanwhile the leg structures, due to more angular of appendages, looks more like the picture shown in the 1st link.