Help me ID this critter!

[Tuffloud1]

@ReefSquad

Just found this guy at the surface in my QT tank.

What is it?

Bad, good?

 

[Mike N]

Very weird... does it move?

 

[Tuffloud1]

Very weird... does it move?

Yep, has tons of arms that slowly move.

 

[El_Guapo13]

I tried a reverse image search, nothing that came up looked the same. All the similar images fell into one of 3 categories.
1. Nudibranchs
2. Jellyfish
3. Explosions

Clearly option 3 would be the cooler option, but seeing as how your tank is still in one piece... I'm gonna go ahead and assume it is not an explosion.

 

[Tuffloud1]

Here’s a video

 

[F i s h y]

Wow I have never seen anything like that. The video is freaky... following to see what others think.

 

[Tuffloud1]

Here he is out of the water.

 

[Tuffloud1]

Here he is in a separate container.

 

[TriggerFinger]

I can’t see the video but the latest pics look like part of a bristle worm

 

[Mike N]

I can’t see the video but the latest pics look like part of a bristle worm

Yeah this is the most likely answer.

 

[El_Guapo13]

Yeah this is the most likely answer.

Agreed. In those pictures where it is in a separate container, you can clearly make out the bristles and body segmentations. Those worms' ability for survival is truly remarkable. Still ugly and dusgusting as heck though.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

@KJ

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Interesting critter

 

[Oldsalt]

What's interesting is that there are 8 appendages. I initially thought baby octopus or relative but looking at it in a container, I tend to think it's a segment of a bristleworm.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

What's interesting is that there are 8 appendages. I initially thought baby octopus or relative but looking at it in a container, I tend to think it's a segment of a bristleworm.

I thought the same but the first picture does not look like a bristle worm

 

[Oldsalt]

I thought the same but the first picture does not look like a bristle worm

Definitely strange. I'm baffled by it!

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Definitely strange. I'm baffled by it!

Yes very interesting critter

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nudibranch. Remove and place tank such as one below .
Keep eye out for presence of any eggs

 

[KJ]

Part of a bristle worm.