What is this ?

[brewman1987]

I noticed this when I came home tonight. Few days ago I noticed the Copepods on the glass and now these long looking Copepods that wiggle throughout the tank and mainly on the glass. I also noticed that there is spider web looking type thing in water and my skimmer seems to be in overdrive. Any help would be great! There mainly to the left of the flash kinda hard I get a clear picture.

 

[brewman1987]

Here's a better photo they almost look like baby bristle type worms.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Here's a better photo they almost look like baby bristle type worms.

Can't tell from either picture.

 

[brewman1987]

Yeah it's hard to take a pic with the phone . When I got
Up this am they were not on the glass. There transparent with legs all along on each side and flip around / swim.

 

[Betta132]

Possibly baby bristleworms. Not any kind of copepod, copepods are little bugs that aren't wormy.
The slime net, I'm pretty sure is from a vermatid. Vermatids are snails that make spiraled tubes and don't move. They stick slime nets out to eat tiny little particles out of the water.

 

[fishy.22]

Try to get some better pictures, that sounds really cool.

 

[brewman1987]

I will try when I get home.

 

[brewman1987]

This is it here a better pic the worm on the left

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

This is it here a better pic the worm on the left

Quoted for image.

 

[brewman1987]

Believe I just id'd it as a Euclnid worm http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/Annelids/Eunicid.htm

 

[Calappidae]

Looks alot like mine.. Definitly something very bad...


I'm shocked to see it out in the open.. mine stretches out halfway across the tank and retracts back.

 

[brewman1987]

There were out on the glass the other night. Havent seen any since

 

[pagojoe]

I suspect those were bristleworm epitokes. I doubt they are anything harmful.

Cheers,



Don

 

[gpdno]

Bristle worm. Good guys. They eat dead leftover stuff

 

[joshua.jebe]

^^^ what he said eats lots of detrius