Your freaking me out man!!

Farmreefer711 · Oct 13, 2016

Can someone help me with a ID of this creature? I have gone back and forth thinking this is a small Eunice worm! I showed this video from my tank of the fast moving centipede looking worm to my LFS and they kind of laughed and told me i had nothing to worry about. They said that they thought it was some type of scavenging worm?? IDK , if anyone as any thoughts on a positive ID it would be greatly appreciated. O and i have seen at least 4 other smaller identical worms in the last week, with the one in the video being the largest one i have seen.

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Diesel · Oct 13, 2016

Maybe a bristle worm but the head looks different.

#reefsquad

melypr1985 · Oct 13, 2016

Looks like a classic bristle worm to me. I've been up close and personal with them lately removing them from one of the tanks at the store. They vary, some with how they look, but are mostly all the same.

NanaReefer · Oct 13, 2016

Don't think it's a common Bristle Worm. Looks to big to be a baby Bristle Worm. Might check here.
http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker.shtml
http://www.masa.asn.au/masawiki/index.php/Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Reef_Tank
http://www.melevsreef.com/node/141

Sabellafella · Oct 14, 2016

Farmreefer711 said:
Can someone help me with a ID of this creature? I have gone back and forth thinking this is a small Eunice worm! I showed this video from my tank of the fast moving centipede looking worm to my LFS and they kind of laughed and told me i had nothing to worry about. They said that they thought it was some type of scavenging worm?? IDK , if anyone as any thoughts on a positive ID it would be greatly appreciated. O and i have seen at least 4 other smaller identical worms in the last week, with the one in the video being the largest one i have seen.

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Does look like a bobbit tho =(

JaimeAdams · Oct 14, 2016

yeah definatly a Bobbit
Eunice aphroditois
it took me all of 1 second when I saw the mouth.
@Wiz will tell you all about Bobbit worms. He collects them and would be exstatic to take yours off of your hands. Seriosuly if you search you will see his Bobbit tank.

Reefapprentice · Oct 14, 2016

JaimeAdams said:
yeah definatly a Bobbit
Eunice aphroditois
it took me all of 1 second when I saw the mouth.
@Wiz will tell you all about Bobbit worms. He collects them and would be exstatic to take yours off of your hands. Seriosuly if you search you will see his Bobbit tank.

I have those guys in my tank, never have picked at anything, they`re scavengers. I dont think its a bobbit either. Just my .02 cents

tcarter1936 · Oct 14, 2016

Next time one is on a small rock it would be easy to catch or make a food trap, that way you could get close up picture's. Just doesn't look like my bristle worms to me.

Wiz · Oct 14, 2016

Kinda fuzzy. But does look much like my hobbit. A small eunice. If you wind up ditching them, I'm your man. Let me know

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/growing-up-eunice.250555/

Thanks for the tag jaime

JaimeAdams · Oct 14, 2016

You can tell what it is by the mouth at the very beginning of the video. I would have never been able to tell before I had experienced bobbit worms upclose and personal.

Farmreefer711 · Oct 14, 2016

So the real scary thing is that i have seen about 5 of them in different sizes. I am hoping my new Six Line Wrasse will pick them off the rock work. @Wiz do you think it is worth trying to catch them with traps?

JaimeAdams · Oct 14, 2016

Farmreefer711 said:
So the real scary thing is that i have seen about 5 of them in different sizes. I am hoping my new Six Line Wrasse will pick them off the rock work. @Wiz do you think it is worth trying to catch them with traps?

Wiz definitely thinks you should try and catch them and send them to him to add to his Eunice tank