#@%! what are these?!?!??!?!?!?

[mindytoy]

i just checked my tank. in the lr there are like 2 feather duster looking tubes. BUT these have like 3 long tentacles that scavanger around! they go in slowly back to the tube and come back out! theres 2 that i can see each one has 2-3 long white transperant tentacles! anyone know what this is? the kenya tree next to them is not doing to good so i want to know what it is and if its bad or good? please help!

 

[lockekeyy]

I'm guessing Chaetopterid or Spionid, I have a lot of these in my tanks. I'm pretty sure they're reef safe. Check it out here and see if it matches. Top right picture correct?http://melevsreef.com/id/crawls.html

 

[SleepyJ]

Probably a spaghetti worm:

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/

Spaghettis are safe. I have a bunch in my nano. The tentacles may be irritating the kenya, but my guess is something else is going on.

 

[mindytoy]

it is the top right picture! are those reef safe? they tripped me out. my lr has hundreads of feather dusters, and now 3 small aptasia, and now two of those things! but the tentacles reach like 2 or more inches!

anyone know what they are and if they sting corals? my kenya is shriveling

 

[otrlynn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13206600#post13206600 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mindytoy
it is the top right picture! are those reef safe? they tripped me out. my lr has hundreads of feather dusters, and now 3 small aptasia, and now two of those things! but the tentacles reach like 2 or more inches!

anyone know what they are and if they sting corals? my kenya is shriveling

Don't know how long you have had the Kenya tree, but I have several and they all go through periods where they shrivel up significantly and look sort of grayish for a day or two, then fully expand again. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to when they do this...but they do. Give it a couple of days and see how it looks.

 

[jmadison]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13206570#post13206570 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lockekeyy
I'm guessing Chaetopterid or Spionid, I have a lot of these in my tanks. I'm pretty sure they're reef safe. Check it out here and see if it matches. Top right picture correct?http://melevsreef.com/id/crawls.html

Ah thanks, I have always wondered what those things were.

 

[mindytoy]

haha. well yeah the kenya i moved him and see if that helps. its true though he comes and goes so i guess ill let it be...the other one is fully extended..

 

[Sk8r]

Mindytoy, spionid most likely. They're looking for food particles, which they reel in like little fishermen. Harmless.
I counted some 50-odd hitchhikers in my tank, spionids, spiorbids, spaghetti and peanut worms, stomatellas, copepods, amphipods, mysis, and a list that would go on for the rest of the page-- The ocean and its rocks just have a lot of life on them, and most of it gets along. The ones you have to watch out for with softies are a shorter list: eunicids, flatworms, nudibranchs, mostly, little things with v tails or things looking like centipedes (eunicids) or garden slugs (nudies)...those are the biggies. I'm sure there's something else, but I can't recall it...