White stringy worm on glass

[BrianReefer]

Anyone know what these are?

good or bad?

 

[EvanDeVita]

Its a spaghetti worm - leave it alone. Its a detritus eater. I actually recently posted a thread similar to this cause my tank is infested with them - they really do help

 

[vetteguy53081]

My suspicion would be a baby Dorvilleid Polychaete worm especially since they are notorius travelers in the reef and do climb glass

 

[Gtinnel]

Have you seen it move? If not are you sure it's not snail eggs.

 

[BrianReefer]

My suspicion would be a baby Dorvilleid Polychaete worm especially since they are notorius travelers in the reef and do c

Its a spaghetti worm - leave it alone. Its a detritus eater. I actually recently posted a thread similar to this cause my tank is infested with them - they really do help

I think you’re right that it’s a spaghetti worm. They showed up this week after a large @reefcleaners order. Maybe John can comment too. I assumed they were good, thx for confirming!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Spaghetti ?? Spahgetti worms are yellow-pink or red and segmented and Rarely move amongst tank and emit a large group of tentacles, Further , they dont climb glass and are stationery in the sandbed. Normally you won't see anything but a bunch of tentacles spreading out from a central point in the sandbed.

 

[BrianReefer]

Spaghetti ?? Spahgetti worms are yellow-pink or red and segmented and Rarely move amongst tank and emit a large group of tentacles, Further , they dont climb glass and are stationery in the sandbed. Normally you won't see anything but a bunch of tentacles spreading out from a central point in the sandbed.

Odd. I haven’t seen them move. Maybe they are in fact snail eggs then?! They’re def not those Dorvilleid Polychaete worms, look nothing like them up close.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Odd. I haven’t seen them move. Maybe they are in fact snail eggs then?! They’re def not those Dorvilleid Polychaete worms, look nothing like them up close.

Closest would be cerith snail eggs

 

[BrianReefer]

That’s it!! I got 100 Ceriths from them and they look exactly like that. Thank you!!

(will they hatch?!)

 

[Gtinnel]

That’s it!! I got 100 Ceriths from them and they look exactly like that. Thank you!!

(will they hatch?!)

If not eaten by fish then they likely will. At one point I had hundreds of small cerith snails that would cover my glass at night.