Thingamajiggy

[PicassoClown04]

I found this thing in my zoa garden. Looks most like a flatworm. Can anyone ID it please?

 

[fishguy242]

good title..hard to tell dif..either reg bristle or fire worm,to be safe ,dispose,leaning to fire?

 

[PicassoClown04]

Thanks! Any chance it’s a baby and there are more, bigger ones? Do they munch corals or anything? I haven’t noticed any damage

 

[sfin52]

Thanks! Any chance it’s a baby and there are more, bigger ones? Do they munch corals or anything? I haven’t noticed any damage

Bristles are part of a clean up crew.

 

[fishguy242]

bristles are good clean up crew just don't touch..poss baby or broken piece? imo fire will burrow into base of softies,plus burn like heck when touched! more will chime in

 

[F i s h y]

Thingamajiggy I believe is the scientific term for bristle worm.

 

[PicassoClown04]

Okay guys... update. Found big fat momma and daddy worms today. Gigantic nasty thing. Got a positive fireworm ID off of google. Thanks y’all for helping! Anybody know how to get rid of them? Or how many babies there are (if the original thingamajiggy was a baby)? I assume I got them through the live rock.

 

[fishguy242]

piece of nylon netting sm piece of raw shrimp ,small rock/glass marble to hold down ,they will get stuck on,then remove ,do not leave for more than 48 hrs,happy hunting

 

[ReefGrammie]

I don't like those thingamajiggys! I had a huge thingamajiggy in my tank once and caught it with a bristleworm trap. Do they still make those things? It was a long skinny plastic tube where you could put bait in one end, but the opening was too small for anything else to crawl in. It worked!

 

[Neoalchemist]

If you've ever seen a fireworm in person you can't really mistake it for a brisleworm.
You called it "thingamajiggy" which is apt.
Now, if you called it "aaaaaahhhhhh! Ooh my God" and knocked women and children aside to escape, then i would say that is probably a fireworm.