Lil baby worm ID

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Hopefully the pic isn't too bad, but I noticed this little bugger crawl out of my rocks awhile back. I figured it was just a lil baby bristle but after reading the thread about the Eunice worms.. well, I'm not so sure anymore! Its little head reminds me a lot of the ugly one I saw in that thread.

Any thoughts?


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One bump during the busy hours to see if anyone might have a good idea!
 
Without a pic of the head will be hard to identify, it doesn’t look to be a normal bristle worm.
One another note how low is your nutrients, looks like you have some dinoflagellates starting up in your rocks
 
Last night about 1 was looking at the tank with a lighted magnifying glass and came across the same thing on my clementine zoas.Just saw it a few minutes ago.Originally. thought it was small in length but its about an inch long.
Looked through the hitchhikers thread and didn't find anything like it.Thats a really good pic.Hope someone can identify it.
 
Without a pic of the head will be hard to identify, it doesn’t look to be a normal bristle worm.
One another note how low is your nutrients, looks like you have some dinoflagellates starting up in your rocks
Yup! Nitrate and phosphate bottomed out and dinos reared their ugly head. Its been 2 months and they're pretty much gone, but I overdosed with ocean magik and am now dealing with hair algae as well as red and green slime algae. Went from underfeeding to overfeeding and am now trying to find that balance between it all. Only lost my miyagi tort during all of this which sucks but it could have been worse.

As for the worm, it comes out randomly so I'm not sure how or when I can get a better pic. Ah well! Appreciate it!
 

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