Help identify

[seldin]

I had some left over food. Maybe 1/4 inch round, and I saw it move against the current of my reef tank. It had very long "shrimp like tentacles" around it and then more tentacles kept wrapping around the food. However, the thing that was trying to eat it, stayed under the sand. Any ideas?

I did think it was my imagination, however, I think this thing is something interesting to watch.

Sorry, no picture, however, any ideas on identification would be nice.

Thank you,

 

[dzeadow]

spaghetti worm.. scavenger and reef safe. they have those long feeler tenticles that they use for taking food, the main worm stays under the sand. I have 5 or so of them that I can see their "food lassos" just hanging out on the sand bed. here's an article:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-06/rs/index.php

 

[seldin]

Danny,

URL looks right on target.

Since he was feeding on left over food, I am all "for him" to do his thing. Do you know if these guys reproduce in the tank?

Thanks for the help.

 

[dzeadow]

not sure. I'd venture to guess that they would reproduce, probably along the lines of, bristle worms, where you really don't know how many you have since they're all over. When they get the search function fixed here, you should do a search on spaghetti worms. There was a guy that had a video of one crawling on his glass so you could see the head and the medusa snakes coming out of it.. it was really neat and he set it to some cool music as well. here's a rough video so you can kind of see what's going on, not the one I was referring to, but one none-the-less

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5kCsOlFD4