Worms

[Reefergirlz]

I need help/advice from someone out there. Last night I noticed I was missing a fish, so we decieded to move the rock around and have a look. Well after shifting the sand I noticed a large orangish worm in the center of the tank buried in the sand. Does anyone have any ideal what this may be? Any help would be greatly appricated.

 

[BlueNano22]

A bristle worm?

 

[trentula77]

a spaghetti worm

 

[Dakafall]

did it look like this?

or this

the 1st one is a bristle worm, i'm almost positive that's what your talking about, i've never really heard about spaghetti worms hurting fish at all, they'll irritate coral, but not fish IMO

 

[Sk8r]

A bristleworm is a carrion eater, harmless to the living [except humans: their bristles sting us, but not the corals] They live in the rocks and are valuable detrivores.

 

[Reefergirlz]

I did find two bristle worms in the tanks but the other worm I found was orange and slimy looking

 

[ENraged]

Going to need a picture of this one.

 

[Reefergirlz]

Oh, I threw that sucker out. When I found it in my sand bed it was all coiled up. It looked like a orange earth worm. Very strange....