Spaghetti worms

beth

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Taken from another site.
I have hundreds of these just from seeding from a few. I hope if I can upgrade my camera that I'll be able to capture them in a pic.
If you will use your google browser and type in spaghetti worms, you should come across a few detailed articles. Spaghetti Worms
 

streetdoc

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Thanks. That looks like what I have only mine are a brownish / orange color and build mound in the sand as well as living in the rock. One more question, are they carnivores or scavengers? I have noticed several of them under/ near dead snails and not sure if they killed them or if the died on their own.
 

beth

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They are scavengers. If they are around the snails, its because the snails died and they are doing their job as cleanup crew.
I have so many worm holes in my DSB at this point, that the bottom of tank doesn't even look like a sandbed anymore, but just a wormhole field. Good critters to have.
Here they are when I first got them one yr ago.
 

beth

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Tommy, NMR, that's how small that wade of cheato was before you guys got the monster.
 
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