spaghetti worm?

[Mad Scientist]

Hi guys,

I think I may have a spaghetti worm, I do not have any pics (maybe someone else does).

This animal is based under a piece of LR and is extending out lots of long (3-4") very, very thin banded (clear and black) tentacles. I know years ago the advice would be to rip it out and worry about what it is later....but....it doesn't seem to be bothering much. It's close to a big clam and an open brain though.

Any thoughts/advice?

Thanks

[Flame*Angel]

Sounds like a spaghetti worm all right. Excellent critters to have in your tank. They will help clean up your sand bed and eat left over food, fish poo, anything that comes there way. Before I got my Copperband Butterfly I had literally hundreds of them, so many I would see them floating in the water column almost any time I looked in the tank. They do not harm clams or corals.

[Mad Scientist]

Thanks Flame Angel!

[flaunt]

spaghetti worms!!! aggghhhhhhhh! get it out quick!!!! i had ONE of these suckers and they OBLITERATED all of my sps colonies!!!aha;hljaflejwal;fj;ej


just kidding :p actually like Flame said they're good for yer tank. personally i'd stay away from any creature that would dare harm my worms. and i think you're thinking about the dreaded "bristle worm" or "fire worm" as the ones that people used to flip out about (like i just did above) and said "get it out now before it kills something!" i have tons of all sorts of worms including spaghetti worms and bristle worms and i'll never get rid of them! i even relocated my coral-banded shrimp recently because i determined he was snacking on my worms. :eek1:

[Legion]

hard to make a postive ID without pics, but sounds alot like them. I have at least a dozen or so throughout my 75 gallon. As stated great lil cleaners and harmless

[ChrisIsBored]

They're good for your tank but if at any time you feel you'd like to get rid of them, I'm gladly accepting donations! :D

[Mad Scientist]

Thanks everyone