Worm ID please

TedsReef · Feb 23, 2019

Got a shot of this with my macro lens. It's about 1/8-1/4" long right now. Looks like some type of baby bristle worm but I'm not sure how to ID it further, and make sure it's not a bad worm, at this stage. Would a Royal Gamma eat them?

Flippers4pups · Feb 23, 2019

Looks like a bristle to me.

DSC reef · Feb 23, 2019

Possibly a oenonid worm. If so they are predatory of snails and clams.

Lovemyreef2015 · Feb 23, 2019

DSC reef said:
Possibly a oenonid worm. If so they are predatory of snails and clams.

+1^^

TedsReef · Feb 23, 2019

DSC reef said:
Possibly a oenonid worm. If so they are predatory of snails and clams.

Any suggestion on predators and removal?

DSC reef · Feb 23, 2019

TedsReef said:
Any suggestion on predators and removal?

Manual removal is all I know. I'm not sure of any natural predators.

TedsReef · Feb 23, 2019

The mouth and tail look a bit different. Here's another shot.

TedsReef · May 7, 2019

I wanted to update everyone on this. I'm almost positive these are spaghetti worms in an earlier stage of life, prior to developing the nightmarish tentacles and tubelike structure of safety. I've been seeing a lot of them in my tank and no other type of worm. I've also looked at a lot of pictures of them and the main similarity between of the ones in this picture and the ones I've looked at online are the shape of their abdomen (aka their butt). It's kind of squared off as where a bristle worm has a rounded abdomen.