weird worm thing
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Topic: weird worm thing
Posted By: akite7
Subject: weird worm thing
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 1:33am
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I went over to my tank and flipped on a lamp next to my tank and looked in and saw about three or four weird little worms going crazy in there. It kind of looks like a blood worm or some other sort of larvae. I will try to post a youtube video of it but I have never used youtube to upload a video before so I hope that it works. Sorry about the quality but all I had at the time was my iphone and I didn't want them to hide by the time I got back with my camera!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOSFRvpmIE Also I will try the "insert movie" button on here so maybe one of the two will work. Thanks in advance for all the help you guys give to me a "newbie" and a VERY curious person that likes to look in my tank at all hours of the night to see what is in there!!!  Thanks again, Adam ------------- First SW tank started 5/18/09 150g wanna be reef. 20g refugium 40g return area with skimmer |
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Posted By: jacobwilson222
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 2:55pm
| WOW, I HAVE SEEN NOTHING LIKE THAT! at first I thought maybe bristle worms but as far as I know they can not swim like that |
Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 3:04pm
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Wow, I have never seen anything like it. I'm stumped. ------------- Steve http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef Currently: 120G Wavefront Mixed 29G Seahorse & Softies Running ReefAngel Plus x2 435-8 |
Posted By: akite7
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 6:11pm
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Well like I said I didn't have time to get to my camera cuz when I wen back they were gone. They haven't came back the last couple of days either that I could see. Weird things. Hope it doesn't turn into some nasty thing flying around my house!!! Thanks for looking at it though. ------------- First SW tank started 5/18/09 150g wanna be reef. 20g refugium 40g return area with skimmer |
Posted By: jacobwilson222
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 6:20pm
| Have you added any new rock and how long has your tank been up and running? have you added anything new? |
Posted By: WhiteReef
Date Posted: January 21 2010 at 12:51pm
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I have seen the same thing before. It is a bristle worn and they sometimes swim in the water column. Why they do it I don't know for sure, but my thought has always been that it part of their mating dance. ------------- ---------------- Richard Former 47G Column Reef, Magna 20" x 18" x 31"H |
Posted By: Sculpin
Date Posted: January 21 2010 at 1:12pm
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I've seen one of those before and just the other day. I saw it at Bird World while Doug was cleaning one of the frag tanks. I asked him about it but he wasn't sure himself. Micah
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Posted By: akite7
Date Posted: January 21 2010 at 9:47pm
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Not anything new other than some fish in the last couple of months. I thought maybe a bristleworm too at first but there wasn't any bristles on it. Just was rounded like larvae. Very weird though. Haven't seen them since either. And I look every night for them now. ------------- First SW tank started 5/18/09 150g wanna be reef. 20g refugium 40g return area with skimmer |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 22 2010 at 12:02am
Just wait. One of our club members (Rick Bangerter) has some serious big ol' worms that come out and swim around....
  ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |