Question

[Romeo Kilo]

My 180 has had water for a week. I added 20ish pounds of live rock from my LFS a couple of days later. The first night I noticed a few "ghost umbrellas" sprouting from the rock. These retract into tiny tubes when i shine a light on them, thinking feather dusters. Tonight I notaced a cenitpede like creature crawling into a rock, I only saw the last few inches of it, I didn't feel it was "bristly". I grabbed a bucket with RODI water and pulled the rock. Now. the real question. I continued searching my tank with my flashlight in the dark and notised a stick like protrusion from a rock. While I was tring to get a picture it slowly,withdrew into the rock. No legs, no segments, uniform thickness( 3-4mm ), brown with a blunt tip. Is this going to murder me in my sleep? what the heck might it be?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Lol just keep inspecting it at night and see if you can get us some pictures!

 

[xxkenny90xx]

If you use a red light you'll have a better chance of not scaring the critters away (not sure how great that would be for pics though)

 

[Conchman]

Centipede is very likely a bristle worm, I would not suggest trying to grab it. Brown stick thing, gonna need a picture...

 

[Romeo Kilo]

Do you think I should put it back in the tank?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Do you think I should put it back in the tank?

Is your rock in rodi right now?? I'd definitely put it back into the tank but if you want to be safe then put it in a qt tank full of saltwater and observe it there

 

[Romeo Kilo]

yep, chillin in a bucket of RODI, nothing has emerged. No QT facilities

 

[SHNICI]

yep, chillin in a bucket of RODI, nothing has emerged. No QT facilities

then if you have just mix some salt water and put it in the bucket.
if there's been something it's dead probably from the RO/DI, can't survive if isn't shell