Identify

[PamM]

Can anyone identify what this is?

 

[tzabor10]

Not from that picture. Use a flashlight and a lower angle

 

[OrionN]

Describe it. Fixed calcified tube, flexible ? anything poke out at the end? Mucus thread release at the end?……

Without the information above, it is just something stick out from the rock.

 

[Solo McReefer]

A hard coral ?

Can anyone identify what this is?

 

[PamM]

Not from that picture. Use a flashlight and a lower angle

Describe it. Fixed calcified tube, flexible ? anything poke out at the end? Mucus thread release at the end?……

Without the information above, it is just something stick out from the rock.

A hard coral ?

 

[OrionN]

It is a Spaghetti worm. It send tentacles and scavenge for food. It also drag grain of sand and build a tube with it secretion. Normally it live in the sand but you have no sand bed so it is residing on the rock

Spaghetti Worms

The spaghetti worm is a segmented worm, a marine relative of the earthworm and a member of the Phylum Annelida. Like other segmented worms, a spaghetti worm has a long, cylindrical body that is div…

www.waikikiaquarium.org

 

[PamM]

I was able to move it but it my feels stiff. Part of the end broke off and it’s like brittle rock.

 

[PamM]

I do have sand. Three inch sand bed

 

[PamM]

I pinched a little bit off the end. It was brittle

 

[Solo McReefer]

It is a Spaghetti worm. It send tentacles and scavenge for food. It also drag grain of sand and build a tube with it secretion. Normally it live in the sand but you have no sand bed so it is residing on the rock

Spaghetti Worms

The spaghetti worm is a segmented worm, a marine relative of the earthworm and a member of the Phylum Annelida. Like other segmented worms, a spaghetti worm has a long, cylindrical body that is div…

www.waikikiaquarium.org

I had a Spoon Worm once

Freakiest animal, until I found out what it was

 

[PamM]

I had a Spoon Worm once

Freakiest animal, until I found out what it was

I would like to find out what this is. It doesn’t look like what people here are saying. It doesn’t look like a spaghetti worm or Medusa worm.

 

[OrionN]

You see the sphagetti come out at night. During the day if you have no fish that picking at them. They won’t last long in tank that have thrive predator like angels or butterfly, wrasse ect…

 

[PamM]

It is a Spaghetti worm. It send tentacles and scavenge for food. It also drag grain of sand and build a tube with it secretion. Normally it live in the sand but you have no sand bed so it is residing on the rock

Spaghetti Worms

The spaghetti worm is a segmented worm, a marine relative of the earthworm and a member of the Phylum Annelida. Like other segmented worms, a spaghetti worm has a long, cylindrical body that is div…

www.waikikiaquarium.org

 

[PamM]

I used tweezers and pulled it out of the rock. This is it

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I would like to find out what this is. It doesn’t look like what people here are saying. It doesn’t look like a spaghetti worm or Medusa worm.

The tube there is clearly an animal tube of some variety - the most likely options in my experience are either worms like Spionid/Chaetopterid worms or some kind of tube-building amphipods.

Spionids/Chaetopterids are harmless/beneficial in small numbers (exceptions for Coral-boring Spionids), but can be unsightly and cause some issues in large numbers. They both stick two little tentacles (palps) out of their tubes to feed.

Amphipods may leave their tubes to find food, but you may see them sticking two to four antennae out.

 

[OrionN]

I would leave them alone. They are what make good Live Rock alive

 

[PamM]

The tube there is clearly an animal tube of some variety - the most likely options in my experience are either worms like Spionid/Chaetopterid worms or some kind of tube-building amphipods.

Spionids/Chaetopterids are harmless/beneficial in small numbers (exceptions for Coral-boring Spionids), but can be unsightly and cause some issues in large numbers. They both stick two little tentacles (palps) out of their tubes to feed.

Amphipods may leave their tubes to find food, but you may see them sticking two to four antennae out.

 

[PamM]

Thanks to wveryone here for your replies and help. I am new to this but love learning about this wonderful hobby.