Just noticed these worms on glass of my refugium. Kinda puzzled as I have quarantined everything that’s gone into my tank including corals and chaeto. Any idea what these might be and if I should be concerned about them being in my display too?
Worm ID?
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Do they move at all? Are these worm tubes or the actual worms? Does anything ever come in/out of them? Is that close up pic specimen the same kind of worm as the rest?
Regardless, I'd assume they came in on the chaeto.
Regardless, I'd assume they came in on the chaeto.
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The C shaped ones don’t move and kinda look like tubes I think. The bigger white ones are moving. I think there’s 2 different species or different life stages
The chaeto was from algea barn and has been in the tank for months without seeing them
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Can you get some pics of them under white light?
When you say the bigger ones are moving, can you describe that more? Are they crawling around, expanding/contracting, inflating/deflating, opening/closing, etc.?
Could you shine a white flashlight on one of each, or pull one of the moving ones out of the fuge in a bowl of tank water and get some pics of it under white light that way?
The C-shaped ones are probably some sort of worms, but I can't say for sure at this point. Do you ever see anything popping in or out of them?
