spaghetti worm???

[hermitkrab]

Well I was looking at my refugium (has no plants yet but some coral) and I saw a little worm. It is tan and lives in a small hole in a piece of live rock. When I shine a light at him sometimes he shows about an inch of himself and kind of whips around and opens his little mouth. He looks like a small strand of spaghetti. Is he bad? If so how do I remove him? Plus he is fairly quick but not like a flash but more like when you push play-doh through a few small holes and it comes out in strands and curls. That maybe a bad example but it's all I can think of at 11:33 PM on a school night, lol. Well hope this little guy won't be big trouble. Thanks for reading and/or posting!
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[sato]

If it is indeed a spaghetti worm it is harmless, hard to tell from the description though. Generally spaghetti worms look like a ton of little orange tentacles coming out of the sand which all connect to a large orange worm who stays under the sand most of the time.

 

[hermitkrab]

No it's not a spaghetti worm. It is only one tentacle from what I see. Maybe a peanut worm. I haven't seend it do anything bad yet so I'll let him go unless I hear else.

 

[reefnut]

Take a look here >>>>Peanut Worm<<<< that will give you an idea of what a peanut worms looks like. That's what it sounds like to me...

 

[hermitkrab]

No it's not a peanut worm. I have a peanut worm and hthis other one doesn't look like him. They are similar though. He basically looks like a small string with a mouth at the end.

 

[monalisa]

I just found a little spaghetti worm in my tank today. He was right out on the front pane of glass. Very tiny and just kinda lookin' around and I think he was eating. My hb says we aren't going to need fish in our tank if we keep finding all those critters in there.
Lisa :happyfish