Yikes!!!

[grannybj]

Last night after lights out , I was feeding my sun coral using a flashlight when this worm swam into the light. It was almost the length of my 90 gallon tank and the circumference of a pencil lead .

I grabbed a turkey baster and sucked it up and put it in a bowl so I could get a better look at it . It shrank way up in length when I put it in the bowl. I could hardly tell if it had a mouth...but it still had to be destroyed.


Makes me wonder where it has been hiding and what other scary critters are looking back at me when I am staring at my tank...this one scared the beejeebers out of me.....

I tried to post pictures of it but for some reason, the pictures will not show..
BJ

 

[grannybj]

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[grannybj]

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sorry the pictures were out of focus but at least you can see how creepy this worm was...

 

[Reefdiver77]

EWW It looks like a snake to me!! And to think you had your hand in that tank.

 

[glitzyone]

Unknown creatures in our tanks …no wonder my one rock of zoas is having a hard time… who knows what has been living in it

at least you caught yours

 

[glitzyone]

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchworms.html

here is a link for worm ids

 

[Reefdiver77]

Malisa, after looking at that site, I am not sure I will ever put my hand in my tank again!!!

 

[glitzyone]

sometimes you are better off not knowing

 

[ducklabdad]

Thanks for sharing this one. have found numerous things in my tank and think it is really cool when some "sea creature" I can not identify appears. Let us know if you are able to determine exactly what it was.

I think many sci-fi writes must be "reef keepers" on the side!!

 

[grannybj]

I searched the link Malisa sent me but did not see a worm like it
I am just amazed that it stayed hidden all this time. You can not imagine how much time I spend just staring at my tank. Something like that worm would have been noticed had it been moving....