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Old 12/23/2007, 08:38 AM
Hawaiigold Hawaiigold is offline
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Help, new Live rock what is this

Just put some new live rock in my fairly new tank. I discovered this worm. Any idea what it is? Good or bad?
Thanks for the help.

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Old 12/23/2007, 09:46 AM
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To me its hard to tell, but a free bump so someone my chime in on. I always remove things I dont know what there are until I get a good ID on it.
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Old 12/23/2007, 09:49 AM
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looks like a penut worm, no big deal
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Old 12/23/2007, 09:51 AM
lilchris lilchris is offline
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I had about 4 of those things in my batch of live Rock. It looks like some type of worm. I don't think you want them in your tank either. Luckily I was curing my rock when I discovered them. I am also giving you a bump for this also.
You don't have the rock in your tank, do you?
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Old 12/23/2007, 09:53 AM
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yeah, it's in the tank already. But this is the only one. I still can pull the worm out.
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Old 12/23/2007, 10:16 AM
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Looks like a dead/stressed peanut worm that was exposed when the rock was broken. Its a very common sight that I see when working with a lot of LR. Peanut worms are good to have as they pump water in and out of the rock through the burrows they create.
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