Worm Identification help

[Alty]

Hi Everyone
This is my first post on the forum.
I have been hunting an coral eating worm for the last few months, I think I have finally caught the culprit and would like to identify to confirm he is the one.I've had to basically dismantle my tank to get to the rock in question
I have been noticing gritty/sandy trails in 2 places coming from the live rock heading towards my corals and munching on them
I'm pretty sure its a form of lysidice worm.
I'll attach some pics although they are not the best.
I ended up removing the rock I thought he was in and squirted a bit of lemon juice around a few holes,he never came out but while I was washing the rock off he fell out, I notice he has quite a large round mouth on him too.I'm hoping this is not just a kind of bristle worm and I still need to find and get rid of the little coral muncher!:headwalls:

 

[Alty]

more pics

 

[Secondsbest]

No expert here, but i'll take a guess. I'm not sure that yours is the Caribbean bearded fireworm, a known live coral eater. I believe the head of yours is the left end of the first pic in your second post. If so, it does not seem to have a frilled caruncle patch on its head. The large round end looks as if it lost its rear. Here's a good article showing the difference between regular detrivores and the one known coral eating fireworm. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-04/rs/

 

[Alty]

Hi
Thanks for your input
The left hand end is actually the rear of the worm and the right hand end is definitely his mouth,there are 2 redish dots on the left end which are his eyes,it's just hard to make out in the pic.so I'm guessing it's not the worm you are talking about.

The pics I have uploaded are the entire worm,i'm thinking he has contracted due to the lemon juice so he doesn't look long and wormy like.

 

[Alty]

here is his mouth

 

[Alty]

more pics

 

[Alty]

Bump

 

[Alty]

YAY I got him
After finding another gritty tube heading up to my frogspawn I decided to pull the rock out and break it up without ruining it too much and voila I got him.
When I pulled him from the rock with tweezers he was around 6" long
I just hope that is the only one in the tank
I'm thinking the initial worm I was asking about is just some kind of bristle worm and wasn't doing any damage :beer:

 

[Calappidae]

That guy you just attached looks like an eucinid. There are usually more than one and trust me they're not fun to have..

 

[Alty]

Yeah he's in the genisus of eunicidae worms.
I'm hoping i only have the one and no more.
I didnt have any trouble up until i added a few extra pieces of LR to the tank a few months ago,so he obviously was hitchiking on one of those few extra pieces
I had no signs of him prior to adding the extra rock and i have my fingers crossed he is the only one

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

YAY I got him
After finding another gritty tube heading up to my frogspawn I decided to pull the rock out and break it up without ruining it too much and voila I got him.
When I pulled him from the rock with tweezers he was around 6" long
I just hope that is the only one in the tank
I'm thinking the initial worm I was asking about is just some kind of bristle worm and wasn't doing any damage :beer:

This is definitely a eunice but it not the same worm as the one in your first few posts.

 

[Alty]

Caught another one!

Caught another one!

I caught another one :/
He was in a rock I had a suspicion he was in and moved to the sump,after a few weeks I moved it back into the tank only to find a gritty tube coming from the rock the next morning.
So I removed the rock and busted it up to find him
I ended up breaking him into 3 pieces and was amazing to see that all three pieces were still moving 5 hours later
I'm hoping that's the last of them,I only ever saw two tubes over the months and have caught both of those occupants so fingers crossed I have ridded the tank of them.
He wasn't as big as the first Eunice I caught,god damn hitchhikers :sad2:

 

[Alty]

Grrrrrrr!

Grrrrrrr!

:mad2: Yet again,caught me another Eunice worm
Pics not the best but you can just make him out
I actually found this one in one of the extra pieces of rock I bought that I'm guessing the little buggers may have come along with and how they entered my tank