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[ihavtats29]

:eek1: i just glanced over into my tank and wow did i every see a suprize

its about 10 to 12 inchs streatched out

i think its a very large bristle worm but not sure

 

[ethank77]

that would be the larges bristle worm I have ever seen thatv thing just appeared in your tank. where does something that big hide

 

[spleify]

Holy cap!! That will make look twice at you're tank.
Did that thing really just appear and you've never seen it before?

 

[ihavtats29]

ive never seen it before till just now. i think it is due to me having the lights on later than i normaly do, it must have been in the habit of comming out of hiding around this time

 

[ihavtats29]

now that i verified what it was it went for a ride on the porcelin express. sorry mr worm but i like my corals better than it did.

 

[spleify]

Oh yeah I would have sent that sucker packin too, that was absolutely disgusting.

 

[Jojoyojimbi]

looked like a fireworm, i see them here on the jetty chowing down on zoanthids from time to time, i learned my lesson a few years back while snorkelling in puerto rico before i kept SW tanks, don't touch them

 

[crvz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13210202#post13210202 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ihavtats29
now that i verified what it was it went for a ride on the porcelin express. sorry mr worm but i like my corals better than it did.

Did I miss it? What did you determine it is? I really don't think it's a bristleworm based on the picture (mostly it's girth).

 

[ihavtats29]

online photo search. from the research i did they can make them selves very thin and long or thick and short, up to 24" in length

 

[flyyyguy]

Thats a SWEET brain

 

[paintballer768]

Either the real fire worm thats huge, or a Eunice worm are my guesses. Either way, glad you got rid of it. Bristles are good until they get that big LOL

 

[flyyyguy]

Its definitely not a eunicid and all of the bristleworms are fireworms. almost all of them can get that big and much much bigger even

its a harmless detrivore you have there. some fireworms can eat corals, but im pretty sure that isnt one of them and the ones that do arent very common in the hobby

I used to have a predator tank with crushed coral and huge worms like that were commonplace. it was a dirty tank though. lol Thats a pretty clean looking tank to be making worms that big.

you should have kept him and given him a name

 

[seapug]

That's looks like a regular old bristleworm. I've seen bigger ones than that in my tanks. Worth removing for the ick factor I guess.

 

[ihavtats29]

the brain normaly looks like this

but my large purple tang has been picking at it, im looking for a new home for the tang