Purple...thing (now with video)

It's obviously some kind of worm but none of the hitchhiker guides show anything like this. I can see a row of hairs or teeth or something like that in the middle, but a single curved row, not a completely circular mouth like you would see on a polyp.

Here is a link to the video.

Just for reference, the shell in the 2nd pic is about 1".

Thanks,
Doratus

 

Well its ugly thats for sure XD

 

You have pretty looking live rock though.

 

The purple doesn't look so bad from a distance, but yeah, up close it looks alien.

Thank you, I lucked out.

 

It looks like it could be a vermitid snail. They feed by sending out streamers and then reeling them back in.

 

Is this LR brand new?

I am stumped but it kind of resembles a small closed mushroom, with filaments showing.


Touch it!!!!!!!! ;D

 

Poke it with a stick XD

 

This live rock has been in the tank since the first week.. So maybe 3 months? I don't know what your idea of new is.

Standby for a report on the poking!

 

Okay I took a short video of me poking it. Check it out here.

Notice when you first see the shadow from my hand the creature moves a little, then when I actually touch the thing it sucks in fully. So it's like a two-stage retraction. Interesting. I love saltwater.

Edit: I should also add that the "tube" is very hard and somewhat transparent.

 

I can't see the video on my phone, but could it be a tunicate?