Anybody ID this?

Reefnjunkie · Dec 28, 2013

I saw this picking/pecking at an SPS frag in my tank, any IDs???
Thanks in advance

TJ's Reef · Dec 28, 2013

Possibly Eunice pennata, I found the image below on a very cool website of 'World Register of Marine Species'

http://www.marinespecies.org/photogallery.php?album=673&pic=64103

Cheers, Todd

mike007 · Dec 28, 2013

Bristle worm get it out.

Eienna · Dec 28, 2013

Bristleworms for the most part are harmless scavengers.

Note that there are definitely exceptions.

TJ's Reef · Dec 28, 2013

Eienna said:
Bristleworms for the most part are harmless scavengers.

Note that there are definitely exceptions.

Agreed, and most are just a part of a healthy Reef's bio-diversity. I have several hundred within my system and would only remove one if LARGE or caught in the act of doing something I wish it had not....

Cheers, Todd

tektite · Dec 28, 2013

The head makes me lean toward it being a young eunicid worm, not a regular bristle worm. Definitely not a welcome inhabitant.

Reefnjunkie · Dec 29, 2013

tektite said:
The head makes me lean toward it being a young eunicid worm, not a regular bristle worm. Definitely not a welcome inhabitant.

Someone else mentioned Eunicid, I was thinking maybe phyllodocidae???

Definitely had those beadle little eyes LOL

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html

It was removed but I'm still curious, it was my frag/QT tank so all is good-besides all frags are getting a bayer dip tomorrow so any other stragglers won't survive