blue/gray worm???

browniebuck

browniebuck

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After lights on this morning, I saw this bluish grayish worm that was spiraling out of control throughout my tank. The tank has been up and running, with no additions or subtractions in the past 2 months or so (3 chromis). The wormy-thing was about 4-6 inches long and, to be perfectly honest, looked like a live fish poop. I couldn't decipher which end was the head, and it was gone before I could get the camera out. I am assuming that it has been in the tank for quite some time...this is just the first time that I have seen it. Any idea what it is?
 
cherylann

cherylann

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Without a picture no definite ID. Probably a bristle worm, harmless and have two really big ones in my tank. They have been given a bad name because they are usually discovered on a dead tank inhabitant, but they did not cause the death they are merely doing a nice job of cleaning it up for you. Google or go to Hitch hikers and id threads.
 
cranberry

cranberry

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The big blueish/gray ones in my tank I remove if the opportunity presents itself. I won't disturb anything to get them, but one time I played Tug-O-War with this large variety. Their strength and grip is no joke.
I remove these.....

 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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not mine....mine literally looked like almost like a fish poop that was alive...it was blue or gray in color, had no legs (that I could see), and was floating around in the water spinning out of control (I have had bristle worms before....definitely not a bristle). If you were to draw a squiggly line in blue or gray, that is what this thing looked like. The only reason that I know it was alive is that it would slow down and speed up with nothing to do with the powerheads...then it was gone again. I have never seen it before.....
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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not from what I have found....literally, if you were to draw a squiggly line in blue or gray...that would be my worm!
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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nobody else has any idea as to what this crazy creature might have been? I have done searches on here, searches on google, and looked through my saltwater invert book...nothing. I am fairly certain that it can't be bad...other than the chromis we added a month or so ago, we haven't added anything to this tank in MONTHS! This thing must have a good hiding place as I think it has been in there for since near the beginning...and we haven't had any unusual losses in the tank.
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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haven't seen this thing since, waiting with camera in hand every time the lights go on....still, nothing. Nobody has any other direction to point me in? I have done google searches for saltwater worms, I have looked at various articles on aquarium worms, etc... and have found nothing that resembles this goofy thing...
 
cranberry

cranberry

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Can you draw it?
You're just going to draw a squiggly line, aren't you?
Okay, get out your cellphone and re-inact how it was moving and upload video....... I like that one :)
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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think of what a piece of string would look like in the current of the tank...only instead of a piece of string, think blue or gray fish poop (you know, when they are hanging on before they pinch off)?
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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unless this piece of fish poo was possessed by some dizzy spirit...I have no idea....although, this WAS the tank that had my crazy loop-d-loo sixline wrasse a couple years back....hmmmmmmmmmm?
if it was a fish poo, the fish that left it dropped it and ran, there is NO chance that one of my fish could have dropped something this long...I felt a little inadequate with that thing floating around in there!
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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well...I think I am just going to say that I have discovered a new species of worm...and I shall call it, the blue/gray loop-de-loo fish poo worm!
 
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