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ooferret

ooferret

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I recently bought several hermits with extra shells. When I got home I noticed one of them looked like they had a string looking thing coming out of them but just thought it was the remains of a poor snail trapped with them. Well now the string is on the outside of the shell and seems to have built a mound looking thing around itself and I've noticed two seperate shells with this unknown ( one has two strings and the other has just one so far at least) I only notice them around feeding time so It's alive I think but I have no clue what it is and being new to the hobby i don't want to find out it is a bad visitor that ruins my new adventure shortly after it began. Any idea what it is or if I should remove it?
 
ooferret

ooferret

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I'm going to try and get some tonight it is hard to get a good one with them being so tiny and blending on a white background. Thanks for the link I will check it out and see if it helps
 
ooferret

ooferret

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Appears you led me right without a picture it looks like a tube worm
. I will load a picture tonight still for confirmation
 
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saxman

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Yep...looks like a Chaetoplerid tube worm. No problems unless you don't like them.
 
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