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Worm ? Bad ?

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Topic: Worm ? Bad ?
Posted By: Tony
Subject: Worm ? Bad ?
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 5:27pm
Not sure where to post this so I will try here as well...
 
Cannot get a picture they are to small for the camera to pick-up.....
 
I was looking at my Live Rock earlier and noticed something funny / strange.  Crawling along it (or out of it in another case) was what looks like a worm of some sort...
 
It looks like angel hair pasta - Thin and white / clear - It has one end tucked into a crevace in the rock and is streatching with it's other end (assuming the mouth end) - It seems to be eating (or at least streatching - FORGIVE MY SPELLING - thinking not typing... towards my green hair algae) maybe even eating it... 
 
There are a few of them, they are various sizes - a couple are even sliding across the rock, not tucked in .....
 
With this poor description anyone have any idea ?  I'd rather not have to kill them as they are part of the eco-system - But if they are bad I need to know so I can possibly try and control them..
 
Any help would be great....  Thanks in advance



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Posted By: Angel
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 9:55pm
A picture is worth 750 words Wink

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Posted By: Kevin F
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 10:31pm
Originally posted by Tony Tony wrote:

 
It looks like angel hair pasta -


LOL Was it dinner time or something when you posted this. LOLWink

Look up a spagetti worm.


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The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein


Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: June 29 2006 at 1:30pm
There is a worm called a spagetti worm.  Does it have a lot of tentacle coming from one spot?  These worms have really thin, but long tentacles that wander out of its hole to find food.
 
They are a good thing in your aquarium.  They feed on detritus and leftover food.



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