IS THIS A BAD WORM?!?!

[xmikebrock]

i noticed on my live rock today 2, centimeter long white worm looking things

on the end of them is a bunch of red hair looking strands sticking up

i cant get a picture, but i havent noticed it moving

do you think this is a worm or something else?

[pufferfreak]

Bristle/fire worms. They are fine when they are small. Good detitrus eaters and such. Sometimes they get to big though and starting eating fish, corals, etc. Peppemint shrimp i believe and for sure six line wrasse get rid of them if you dont want them in your aquarium. My wrasse has so far.

[Pufferpunk]

I leave those things alone.

[xmikebrock]

honestly, it looks nothing like that, ill put a picture up after school today, but, its like a pom pom at the end almost, could it be a babay feather duster? the hairs on the "pom pom" are very fine tho

[booger12]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -reef.html

yumm Bristle worms i know if i ever find a worm in my tank they are going straight to the toilet

http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_worm.htm

Ps dont touch them

happpy sleeping ^.^

[marksrush]

Wow that is like something out of a horror movie! I'd freak out if I came across something like that in a tank of mine.

[doraemon]

Ewww reminds me of the movie Species i think and Alien...thats gross and scarey,i wasnt expecting to see something that big ugh ugh..gave me shivers

[xmikebrock]

not even haha

if i had something like that in my house i would backhand it all the way to 2020 haha

[doraemon]

Backhand it?? haha i wouldnt go anywhere near it ...check this out too mike http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... ?news=2239

Bad worm and this parasite is enough to put me off marine fish ugh ugh

[pufferfreak]

How about how freshwater fish get all fuzzy and get giant holes in their heads...

+1 marine fish

[xmikebrock]

thanks guys

but im pretty sure they are small feather dusters, the pom pom goes in and out of the white tube and i just matched up pictures and stuff, is there anything i can do to help them out?

[Pufferpunk]

Feed DT's Phytoplankton to the tank.

[splitadams]

that toung eating parasite is extremely common when fishing aye
i remember about 2-3 years ago i went fishing in tasmania for bream
and every single one i caught had that large white parasite in there mouths

also that worm looks very similar to a beach worm, the ones you draw out of the
sand with fish meat, here we use them for bait when we go fishing