Swimming red wormlike creatures

[brandonberry]

Does anyone know what these may be. They are no more than 1/4" long and swim very fast with a wavelike pattern. They appeared tonight right after my lights went off and seemed to gather near the surface. They somewhat resemble some type of fly larvae, but I can't think of any kind of fly that would breed in my reef tank and bugs really haven't started to come out around here yet. Sorry the pictures aren't that great. I don't have a macro lense. You can really see how they swim in the video, but it isn't that great either. Thanks

 

[brandonberry]

Anyone?


I was just thinking: Could these be bristleworm larvae?

 

[Anonymous]

Hard to tell from the picture but I would say while it's a Polychaete it is more likely of the genus: Timarete.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[brandonberry]

Yeah, I just checked another forum that I had posted to and Ron Shimek said they looked like polychaete swarmers. If anyone is interested, here's that post: http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic83582-11-1.aspx