Just saw something I cant Identify in my tank.

tkimmons85

tkimmons85

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Today while I was looking at my tank I saw something that caught my eye. It was a 3/4 inch long worm looking organism that is a very fast swimmer swimming back and forth very rapidly. It is white in color and seems to definately have a tail section and a head. I cant get a pic worth a dang because it wont be still for any amount of time. I have a video of it and will try to upload it somewhere online. Any ideas?
 
It could be a gonad eating butt fish...aka the pearl fish. I remember a thread about them on here around 6 months ago. It was rather entertaining. LOL, but yes a baby eel would be just as good.
 
I am having trouble getting the video loaded. I'll keep at it until I get it. Also let me say this I dont know if its still alive because I turned my back after looking at it for a while and now its nowhere to be seen. He prob was eaten by my fish.
 
That reminds me I never posted the pic of my large worm had to be at least 4 feet have a pic just have to have joy load it,.
 
4feet worm I like to see that. I've seen the one on on Steve weast website I think it was 8' long. And he found it in his 500+gal tank. How big is your tank that you found the worm in.
 
Wow, it's obviously very hard to ID it visually from the video, but it's movement/size/etc might tip someone off to what it is. I've never seen anything like that, but DANG, it's crazy looking!
 
It is probably a bristleworm epitoke. Part of the bristleworm breaks off with the eggs and swims around for a while. It is how they reproduce.
 
It was in my 180 and it was in a piece of pvc that ran the 6' way. you should have seen Normans face when it slid into the net he was holding. It got cut in half and both lived for a while in a gal bucket tell I forgot about it.
 
rcmike said:
It is probably a bristleworm epitoke. Part of the bristleworm breaks off with the eggs and swims around for a while. It is how they reproduce.
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Interesting, first time I'd heard that, I guess you do learn something every day! haha. Thanks
 
very interesting.... never seen that before. it definately swims and darts around. dont think it was floating like the eggs mentioned here.
 
I have seen many of them. Of course I used to sit and stare at the tank with a flashlight in the middle of the night sometimes.
 
Some people would say thats strange, staring off into your tank at late hrs. I call it being dedicated. Ya my wife thinks Im obsessed.
 
rcmike said:
It is probably a bristleworm epitoke. Part of the bristleworm breaks off with the eggs and swims around for a while. It is how they reproduce.
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Yeah, I think this is right. I've seen them maybe 2x in my own tanks. I was very surprised both times by the speed that they seemed to actually swim.
 
rcmike said:
It is probably a bristleworm epitoke. Part of the bristleworm breaks off with the eggs and swims around for a while. It is how they reproduce.
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Gotta agree with you there mike. I've read about that before but never seen it in my own tanks before. I used to check my tanks with a flashlight at night until I have just too much stuffs to do around the house. Pets, plants, remodeling, etc etc. Recent rescue of a new baby. A kitten that was stuck in a tree crying for days. So I'm a sucker for it, then we kept him..... Not like I don't have enough to do already......
 
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