black and white worm thing

[drksails]

During feeding time for my reef I noticed a small black worm type thing with white stripes and a fan type head that it used to propell itself along the live rock. It's about a 1/4 of an inch long. I tried to get a pic ,but my girlfriend took the camera on a weekend with her mom, I' ll try to get a pic when she gets back.

 

[KhawMengLee]

Is it somewhere on this page?

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/flatworms.htm

 

[drksails]

No, it's tubular in shape and moves like an earthworm but with a small feather duster-like head that goes in and out to move the body Moves earthworm style

 

[drksails]

whoops said earthworm style twice, too many Sierras

 

[chizzle]

try searching peanut worm.

 

[KhawMengLee]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9669075#post9669075 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chizzle
try searching peanut worm.

Here's a vid.

http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/bio2002/phascolosomaa.htm

 

[drksails]

yep it's a peanut worm, are they bad for my reef ?

 

[Azazael13]

I think I found one of these last night in my tank as well.

I am in the process of changing the crushed coral over to sand and while sifting through my old CC I saw him in there, put him in a mini quarantine area since I wasn't sure if he was good or bad.

The back is very distinctive with the lines on it. Earthworm is a perfect way to describe it too, it looks exactly like one.

These are good worms correct?

 

[Grunt]

Yes they wont hurt anything,
Cheers

 

[siren]

peanut worms will eat fish poop so you don't have too!

 

[invertaman]

they are benificial scavengers and your fish will snack on them