what is this?

[edmsalt]

Hi, see if you can tell me what this is, and whether its a good or bad thing.
I have these slug-like tubes which are about 3mm in length.... they are orangy-red in color. they dont seem to have any distinguishing features about them, and they just seem to crawl on the glass and on rocks... there seems to be hundreds of them ... they are live, and i can't tell if they are eating algae or not? Should i try to get rid of them ? Are they beneficial?
anybody know what they are? is there a fish that will eat these guys?

 

[eaglefan]

can't tell with those pics sorry

 

[edmsalt]

yeah, i know... sorry, i will try to get some better pix.

 

[jmick]

is this what you are trying to take a picture of? if so it's mysis shrimp.

 

[bwilson]

Dont know what they are take on in to your local LFS an see what they say. Or you could always get a 6-Line Wrase and it should clean things up.
BW

 

[edmsalt]

sorry again for the bad pixs, but they are definately not mysis shrimp.
they look just like a tube... and move around like sea slugs...
i dont even know what to search under for this...

 

[matty0h_52]

i think i know what your talking about do they sort of look like a snaile without the shell, and they only come out at night.

 

[bri23520]

do you have any cleaner shrimp? Thats what they look like imo.

 

[smarls]

Fronm the picture, maybe flatworms?

 

[04mach]

Originally Posted by Jmick
is this what you are trying to take a picture of? if so it's mysis shrimp.
Those look like ghost shrimp