Worm centipede thingy...

curry

curry

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Ok so its not a bristleworm... Its kinda gray and it moves fasttt like a centipede... any ideas? Looks like a gray centipede but much smaller...
I noticed a bigger one maybe 1/4 inch big... its butt was kinda curved downward... It looks like a horizonal J... Its really fast also...
Can't really get any pics... they move way to fast.. mostly come out at night...
 
socalnano24

socalnano24

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Originally Posted by Curry
http:///forum/post/3182795
Ok so its not a bristleworm... Its kinda gray and it moves fasttt like a centipede... any ideas? Looks like a gray centipede but much smaller...
I noticed a bigger one maybe 1/4 inch big... its butt was kinda curved downward... It looks like a horizonal J... Its really fast also...
Can't really get any pics... they move way to fast.. mostly come out at night...
sounds like an arthropod, they eat detritus and other copepods
 
curry

curry

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They do have antennae... I also spotted something else... similar to what I described above but they are almost transparent and it looks like a red striped going down its back. Very hard to tell...
I saw it in an empty hermit shell moving single grains of sand out of it... very tiny.
 
socalnano24

socalnano24

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Originally Posted by Curry
http:///forum/post/3182809
They do have antennae... I also spotted something else... similar to what I described above but they are almost transparent and it looks like a red striped going down its back. Very hard to tell...
I saw it in an empty hermit shell moving single grains of sand out of it... very tiny.
 
curry

curry

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According to the guide cranberry sent me I was able to find one thing that looked like something I found... Isopods - Munnid... but the ones in my tank are sligtly bigger and hide a lot.
I didnt find any pictures of the other centipede like thingy... ill see if I can get a picture somehow...
 
flower

flower

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It is a worm that eats coral. They get huge and one was found 8 foot long. They can hide in tiny places in the tank. Did you happen to see which rock it went into?
They don't start eating coral until they are a certain size, so they can go unnoticed for awhile, I had one for a year before I noticed eaten corals.. If you have coral or plan to have any you have to take apart the tank and get it out of there.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Curry
http:///forum/post/3182955
Damn that sucks... I did see the rock, today I noticed it was two of them...
I saw the pictures you submitted after my post...those are not coral eating worms. They are harmless. Put them back in.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Curry
http:///forum/post/3182975
ohhh ok... lol. Yikes thats a long worm..

That is what I call a centipede looking worm. LOL...I am going to save the picture and use it as an ID before scaring folks to death...Glad you got a picture up before I gave you some very bad advice...sorry..
 
curry

curry

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Its all good. There are at least 5 of them in there. I knew where the two were hiding though because I just saw them move when I put the lights on. They seem to be growing because they do molt and I found two molts just the other day... I think I should have mentioned that in the first post.
 
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