Fast Swimming Nocturnal Worm Thing!

[avaneaton2000]

Here is a pic and a video, I have it in a breeder until I figure out what this is!

 

[SuperNerd]

I can't open the video link. The worm is white-ish colored and twirls like a little helicopter, right?

 

[tetra-tag]

I don't have the bandwidth to play the video, and it's difficult to tell how big it is from the picture, but you may be looking at an 'epitoke' or the reproductive stage of certain polychaete worms. In the wild they swarm on the surface before releasing eggs or sperm.

 

[avaneaton2000]

The worm is whitish with other markings and swims by "serpenting" I guess would be the best way to describe it. I did not know that bristle worms can swim like that or would be that big. The picture and video are of it swimming in a "rocks" glass.

Try the video again it is less than 1mb.



If anyone else has more input please let me know

 

[twon8]

i saw the same thing about a year or more ago right after lights out. no idea what it was, haven't seen it since.

 

[Grey Reefer]

Same here. I had one when I first got my live rock. I saw it twice within the first month and then never again.

 

[avaneaton2000]

Well, I just went to check on it and it kicked the bucket. ohh well.