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Iron E
05-29-2009, 09:24 PM
After putting a layer of live sand covered by a couple of layers of Aragonite, I see these red lines progressively rising toward the surface. Any word on what they might be will be appreciated.

Thanks, Tom


http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu22/tjpava/DSCN2728.jpg

CarmieJo
05-29-2009, 09:35 PM
I think it is a spaghetti worm. They are beneficial!

Iron E
05-29-2009, 09:36 PM
I think it is a spaghetti worm. They are beneficial!

Cool!

I got this sand from the same source i got the Live Rock with all the good hitchikers.

Thanks, Tom

Skurvey Dog
05-29-2009, 09:46 PM
It sort of looks like a medusa worm. They live in substrate and under LR and are good as they keep the sand bed from getting too compacted. I'm just not sure on the ID.

Skurvey Dog
05-29-2009, 09:48 PM
Lol, so..... I'm a slow poster! :rolleyes:

Iron E
05-29-2009, 09:49 PM
Lol, so..... I'm a slow poster! :rolleyes:

I know ! It happens to me all the time!!
Tom

Skurvey Dog
05-29-2009, 09:52 PM
Thanks for making me feel better Iron! :up:

CarmieJo
05-29-2009, 10:00 PM
Ha ha, it happens to me too.
(BTW, medusa and spaghetti are synonyms in this case.)

Iron E
05-29-2009, 10:04 PM
medusa and spaghetti are synonyms in this case.

Great minds...:D

CarmieJo
05-29-2009, 10:08 PM
Lori and I are actually twins who were separated at birth. OK, not really but we could be. :)

CarmieJo
05-29-2009, 10:09 PM
By the way, that is an outstanding photograph!

Skurvey Dog
05-29-2009, 10:21 PM
Lol Yes CJo and I are twins. She got all the brains and good looks and I got..... "What did I get CJo?" Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, yeah, an overly keen witt and sense of humor! :D

CarmieJo
05-29-2009, 10:34 PM
Lol Yes CJo and I are twins. She got all the brains and good looks and I got..... "What did I get CJo?" Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, yeah, an overly keen witt and sense of humor! :DLOL, since we are twins we are both smart, beautiful, witty and funny! But somehow you managed to get artistic too!

rayme07
05-29-2009, 10:35 PM
LOL you guys are great that's what makes me love you girls. :love!:

But I am going to have to agree with Carmie it looks like a spaghetti worm. :)

Iron E
05-29-2009, 10:58 PM
LOL you guys are great that's what makes me love you girls. :love!:


Bestill, my beating heart!:up:

Tom

rayme07
05-29-2009, 11:33 PM
Bestill, my beating heart!:up:

Tom

:mrgreen:

CarmieJo
05-30-2009, 12:06 AM
You guys crack me up! :rotfl:

lance
05-30-2009, 01:44 AM
look's like a juvenile bristle-worm I have them all in the tank I breed them in they seem to do this all day until I feed then after feed they go back into substrate I guess eating some kind of micro-fauna or some way to have shelter from predator's. if it was a peanut worm or spaghetti worm the base would be green and have long tentacle's petruding from the surface of the substrate.

lance

rayme07
05-30-2009, 02:16 AM
I think it is a spaghetti worm here is a picture I found online that looks pretty close to yours.

Piotr Rotkiewicz's Photo Gallery :: Worms (Robaki) :: sworm01 (http://www.pirx.com/gallery/worms/sworm01)

Here is also a small list of names of other worms just in case you find more worms.

http://www.pirx.com/gallery/worms

Hope this helps. :)

Seahorsedreams
05-30-2009, 03:49 AM
It's a Cirratulid - aka Hair Worm

CarmieJo
05-30-2009, 10:40 AM
I'd take Renee's (Seahorsedreams) ID any day!

lance
05-30-2009, 03:46 PM
I'm telling you its a bristle worm if that is a spaghetti worm I'm a hippopotamus. It is a juvenile bristle-worm look at the color's in the body red light black strip forming what peanut worm is red with an elongated body and there are no tentacle's petruding on the surface it is too long for a peanut worm plus it doesn't have the protective pouch. Bristle-worm

lance

Seahorsedreams
05-30-2009, 04:14 PM
I'm telling you its a bristle worm if that is a spaghetti worm I'm a hippopotamus. It is a juvenile bristle-worm look at the color's in the body red light black strip forming what peanut worm is red with an elongated body and there are no tentacle's petruding on the surface it is too long for a peanut worm plus it doesn't have the protective pouch. Bristle-worm

lance

Helloooo Hippo!

You need to look at the photo again... let's rotate it and make it bigger.

It's not a bristle, spaghetti or a peanut worm... it's a It's a Cirratulid - aka Hair Worm

There are no bristles. A bristleworm needs bristles.

Bristle worms are not the only red worm. Hair worms are red as well.

There are many many gills coming out of that worm as indicated by the blue arrows. The red arrows indicated the feeding tentacles.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll73/hixphotobucket/wrongcopy.jpg

FWIW, there are a few easily identifiable difference in the spaghetti worm verses the hair worm, albeit it doesn't really make a difference because they are so similiar.

The spaghetti worm has a pile of white tentacles originating out of the top. These are all feeding tentacles and do not originate out of any other place on the body. There is a little red bundle that also originates out of the top which is the gills. The worm itself is generally tube bound but of course can move and rebuild.

A hair worm (Cirratulid) does not live in permant tubes. They have only 2 feeding tentables originating from the top while the red gills run along the entire side of the worm. If you see a tentacled worm on the glass, it's a hair worm as they are more apt to roam not having a permanent home.

CarmieJo
05-30-2009, 05:30 PM
Thanks Renee. I didn't know the difference between the two.

Seahorsedreams
05-30-2009, 05:36 PM
I just changed out the picture. I didn't have the red arrows in there indicating the 2 feeding tentacles. Interesting little things, aren't they.

Iron E
05-30-2009, 07:12 PM
When the lady's right, she's right!!!:cool:

(Hippo!):tongue2:

Tom

lance
05-30-2009, 07:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BekKk98FZmY

welp you were right and here i am now ^^

lance

Iron E
05-30-2009, 07:30 PM
welp you were right and here i am now ^^

lance


Gotta' respect a guy who can take a whack and come right back!!:showoff:
Now that's usin' yer' noodle!:rotfl:

Tom

lance
05-30-2009, 08:27 PM
Gotta' respect a guy who can take a whack and come right back!!:showoff:
Now that's usin' yer' noodle!:rotfl:

Tom

LOL that is great

Skurvey Dog
05-30-2009, 10:25 PM
Thanks Rene. That was interesting as I did not realize that they had external gills like that. So cool! :up:

Seahorsedreams
05-30-2009, 10:36 PM
LOL @ Lance.

CarmieJo
05-30-2009, 11:00 PM
Cute hippo video!

lance
05-30-2009, 11:47 PM
I was so sure about that worm man :raining: didn't even notice the tenticle good eye renee

lance

rayme07
05-31-2009, 02:13 AM
Thanks Renee its great learning about new stuff especially about worms because they are so cool looking. :)

Lance, great hippo vid made me laugh.

lance
05-31-2009, 02:43 AM
your welcome ray glad you guys liked it

lance