nasty ,ugly worm

[lanacane214]

found it in my live rock i took out from my 46 g last night.tonight it was still alive .is it good or bad i can trow it back ib

 

[KathyC]

Do you have a sump you can put it in?
Or perhaps someone wants it?

Not your typical worm, not something I would keep in my tank
(and I don't say that often about worms)

 

[dubs]

that a bristle worm they good not nice to look at but they clean ur tank i have bunch in some live sand i am giviing away right now

 

[KathyC]

that a bristle worm they good not nice to look at but they clean ur tank i have bunch in some live sand i am giviing away right now

I don't agree that this is a 'typical' good bristleworm- this looks like one of the (few) coral eating fireworms...hermodice carunculata
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html

Scroll down the page to the 'bristleworm' section..then scroll down until you see the worm on the measuring tape..I believe that is this worm.

 

[dubs]

kathy u might be right idk

 

[felix tesler]

throw that thing to your worm eating wrase its a fire worm and it eats corals i just caught one 2 days ago and it destroyed my baby toadstool if you dont have and wrase then just throw it away thats not what you want in the tank

 

[al0ha]

Is it a eunice worm?

 

[wschang812]

thats a nasty lookin thing rite there lol

 

[HealthyTanks]

It does look like a fireworm. If so, you don't want it in your tank.
Don

 

[kidninja]

i suggest you send that worm over to fear factor and have a contestant eat it. just my honest opinion. =)

 

[lanacane214]

I didn't know they could live outside of water for a whole day, the look in my wifes face when she saw the pic on the computer was priceless,she hates snakes or anything that looks like them

 

[ixTCxi]

Damn I almost puked.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Hard to make an exact ID from the pics but I'm almost posotive that it's a Eunicid worm. They eat coral and can get huge.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Here's one I pulled out if the 300gal at Fauna NYC when we broke down the tank to redesign it. I was removing one of the rocks when about a foot of this guy just dropped out and tried to slide back into the rock.