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Old 08/27/2005, 06:26 PM
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Question Maggot looking critter????

I lost my CBS and while seaching the tank for him I found a very fat 2" maggott looking critter in the tank. The CBS was never found and the skimmer was full of slime so I assumed it was the remains of the CBS What could this fat maggott critter be???? I pitched it in the trash.
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Old 08/27/2005, 06:35 PM
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hmmm maggots turn to flies. so i would say a fly. hahahahhahahah bye.
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Old 08/27/2005, 06:35 PM
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Maybe a peanut worm. Too bad if it was; good thing to have.
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Old 08/27/2005, 06:38 PM
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Oh no capncapo,i never heard of a peanut worm
Guess i`ll have to look that one up. Ugh I sure did booboo
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Old 08/27/2005, 06:41 PM
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Do a search on sipunculid and see if that's the guy.
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:10 PM
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sounds like a isopod. look at Melev's site under the pods http://www.melevsreef.com/id/kritter2.html
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:15 PM
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Not too many 2" isopods around. Not only that but she was able to catch it.
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:27 PM
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No not an isopod. This thing was 2" or more,very fat and slow. I found it under a live rock. I looked at the pic people had posted of the peanut worm but I can`t really say that`s what it was. It didn`t have the skinny black and white part. Just looked exactly like a maggot but very fat and big. In one pic I noticed what looked like this worm but it had the skinny part.


Still looking .
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:31 PM
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They can "suck" the skinny part inside their body. Wish I could do the same with the fat part.
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:35 PM
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May also have been some kind of a cucumber.
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Old 08/27/2005, 07:45 PM
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Gee if they can do that then it was a peanut worm. Hopefully i`ll find more. Yeah i`d like to be about to suck in my fat like I could when I was younger. Now i`d pass out if I inhaled that much
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Old 08/27/2005, 10:34 PM
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Not too many 2" isopods around. Not only that but she was able to catch it.
thats true. too many shots in the head playing paintball today i guess since i missed the "

heres another site with lots of different worms try it click the blue and most will have a pic
http://www.saltcorner.com/sections/z...orms/worms.htm
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Old 08/28/2005, 12:31 PM
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Thanks everyone,without a doubt it was a peanut worm Now I do feel bad.
 


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