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Thank you. Do vermited snails look darker? And do they start out with hard shells?Looks like a spirorbid worm to me - generally considered harmless filter feeders.
Do they show up on frag plugs? Trying to figure out how I got themLooks like a spirorbid worm to me - generally considered harmless filter feeders.
Thank you for the responseGenerally speaking, vermetid snail tubes are not white (though some species have white tubes) and they have a long part of the tube sticking out away from the substrate it's growing on (i.e. it's a little spiral with a long, cylinder tube jutting out perpendicularly from it - again, though, not all of them have long tubes; all of the species I'm aware of do, however, have an opening that turns out away from/perpendicular to the substrate and spiral tube - spirorbid worm tubes, on the other hand, generally open parallel to the substrate). Vermetids do have hard (read: calcified) tubes - I'm not currently aware of any species that do not.
Spirorbid worms can come in on frag plugs, live rock, sometimes hermit crabs or snail shells, etc.

