Yellow worm/nudi toxic looking thing!

[eggplantparrot]

Take a look at this little monster

I thought it was a medusa worm or spaghetto worm, but the tentacle looking things come out of it body, not mouth hole, they move a bit too.

It has what may be a head (the part that doesnt have tentacles i think) that moves around probing its surroundings.

Any ideas? It is on my sock holder in sump ATM.

 

[eggplantparrot]

More pics of "head" moving

 

[Hemmdog]

More pics of "head" moving

Yuck lol

 

[Gonebad395]

Is it a spaghetti worm?

 

[eggplantparrot]

Is it a spaghetti worm?

I had an aha momemt when i searched spaghetti worm, but this things tentacles are coming off its back, not its mouth

 

[eggplantparrot]

Yuck lol

Yep

 

[bluemon]

Definitely a spaghetti worm

 

[eggplantparrot]

Definitely a spaghetti worm

Thats what i thought too, but the tentacles on a spaghetti worm come from one end, this guys tentacle thinga are coming out of its entire body, not one end

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

There are many types of spaghetti worms.

Yours is a one for sure.

 

[eggplantparrot]

There are many types of spaghetti worms.

Yours is a one for sure.

I see, so safe to add to tank then? I dont have sand though is that a problem for these guys?

 

[eggplantparrot]

There are many types of spaghetti worms.

Yours is a one for sure.

God that thing is so gross looking...

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I see, so safe to add to tank then? I dont have sand though is that a problem for these guys?

We had them hide in live rock and sand. You can try to put it on your rocks. And yes they are good to have.

 

[eggplantparrot]

We had them hide in live rock and sand. You can try to put it on your rocks. And yes they are good to have.

Will one reproduce by itself? I have a lot of detritus collect in 1 corner so lots of food

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Will one reproduce by itself? I have a lot of detritus collect in 1 corner so lots of food

Honestly I would have to research how they reproduce lol. I'm sure the worm would love all that food

 

[Biocube32]

Chestburster for sure

 

[eggplantparrot]

Honestly I would have to research how they reproduce lol. I'm sure the worm would love all that food

well I just found out that yes, these guys will definitely split and produce clones of themselves. for the longest time I thought that single worm was stretching ridiculously long to come out of crevices on the one rock I placed it, but now I'm thinking it had already made many copies of itself when I saw another one elsewhere.

 

[Auto-pilot]

+1 to spaghetti worm. I have hundreds I'm my tank living in the sand just like yours

 

[eggplantparrot]

+1 to spaghetti worm. I have hundreds I'm my tank living in the sand just like yours

yep, I found the answer very quickly after posting this thread thanks to this awesome forum. I was only updating it to answer my own question I had at the end. the ocean has awesome crazy life doesn't it? I'm loving all of it right now ;Happy