What the heck is this thing?

[Aj_999]

When I turned on my tank lights this morning, I saw something I have never saw before in my 6 month old reef. It seems to be a worm like creature, maybe like a small sea snake, with a orange body and a white head. It is swimming around like crazy, its very fast. Its not that big, maybe and inch long, but its really fast, darting in between corals, but also getting caught in the intakes of powerheads. It has two very small black eyes. I'm so confused because I have never seen anything like this before.

Here is a picture, sorry for the bad quality, My digital camera needs repair so I was using my old web cam.

[guitar_lord]

Its the lochness monstser!!!!
lol - Im tagging along cause I wanna know what the heck that is too!!!!!

[Aj_999]

Right now its mouth is attached to a piece of liverock with its body just wiggling as if its trying to swim.

[Aj_999]

Now it disappeared and went somewhere else...

[Fishyfreak031592]

looks like those slugs from the movie slither

[Aj_999]

Now its caught on a powerhead intake and cant get out....

[Aj_999]

OMG, I can't believe what i just saw, and it's very hard to explain, but I will try. On the white part, its head, there seems to be a small track of blood being pump in from the body all the way to the eyes every second. Its like a very small see through vein going from the body to the head.

I have no idea what this thing is, someone, please help.

[Zodiac]

looks like a peanut worm

[Aj_999]

Can peanut worms swim, and do they have small black eyes?

[guitar_lord]

looks like a leech to me

[capncapo]

Do a search on epitoke and see it that's not it.

[guitar_lord]

thats kinda gross dude
lol

[LeslieH]

It's a polychaete epitoke belonging to the family Nereididae. Harmless, and it won't last very long.