what the heck is this?

[Pazernaker]

So I was feeding this morning (dry pellets and 2 frozen brine) and watching the fish swim around and eat, when I noticed this weird worm/tube thing floating in the water. It's a similar color as an arm to my Condy Anemone, but much darker of a tone with a white base. It was in the current, moving around, and as soon as that white base hit something, it stuck right to it. Unfortunately, that happened to be my new Autumn Harvest Psammocora. I've attached a picture, what in the world is it?

 

[IKD]

Hard to tell with the lighting. Maybe a peanut worm? Can you get a white light picture?

 

[JGT]

Peanut worm.

 

[Pazernaker]

Peanut worm.

What is a Peanut work and where did it come from? It was just suddenly there floating around in the tank, was it in the brine shrimp?

 

[G Santana]

Here he is formally introducing himself

 

[ying yang]

What is a Peanut work and where did it come from? It was just suddenly there floating around in the tank, was it in the brine shrimp?

What is that!! A R2R guide to common new tank hitchhikers.

One of the greatest things about starting a reef tank is getting your live rock in and admiring all the diversity within it. The rock comes to life different creatures. This is a guide that I, along with a very well known critter identifier @KJ , have put together for the new reefer on what...

www.reef2reef.com

Can come from any live rock/ sand you added ,or alot of hitch hikers come in on frag/ rock plugs that our corals are attached to.

 

[Pazernaker]

What is that!! A R2R guide to common new tank hitchhikers.

One of the greatest things about starting a reef tank is getting your live rock in and admiring all the diversity within it. The rock comes to life different creatures. This is a guide that I, along with a very well known critter identifier @KJ , have put together for the new reefer on what...

www.reef2reef.com

Can come from any live rock/ sand you added ,or alot of hitch hikers come in on frag/ rock plugs that our corals are attached to.

The thing is about an inch long, how in the world did I not notice it before today? Just added a few frags 2 days ago, so I guess they could have come from there, but I figured I'd notice something that big.

Can I detach it and reattach it somewhere else? Will my Melanurus Wrasse eat it? The % odds of it hitting a frag of coral in my 60 gallon tank with all the live rock surface area I have in there are slim to none, I'm shocked it managed to root where it did.

 

[ying yang]

Sorry unsure of your answers.
But what I think is if your melanurus wrasse ( depending its size) sees any juicy invert it can fit in its mouth,then think will give it a go,never had a melaanurus wrasse but would guess it would it worms like most other .
As for detaching and re-attaching somewhere else,I would hazard the guess you will hurt/ damage the worm if try to move it,and it probably doesn't like to be out in open anyway as it doesn't know what's lurking / swimming around to eat it so will probably move on its own .but if worried about new coral then that's your choice if want move the worm and if in good shape put it somewhere else ( probably be good idea to lower or turn off flow to let it settle somewhere) or if damage the worm so cant be saved then bin it.
Me personally I would give it bit of time and see what it does,but I'm quite liberal/ easy going ha ha

Never had a peanut worm but read often they very beneficial for our tanks