What are these nightmare worms? Found them when transferring a sandbed. I don't recognize them, and I fear for my life.
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probloy brittle worms
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but try this How to Identify Worms in Your Reef Aquarium : eXtreme Aquatics
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but try this How to Identify Worms in Your Reef Aquarium : eXtreme Aquatics
I would flush them. I personally don’t like worms. I’m horrified from seeing hundreds of them in my dads tank at night.
could use them for fishing lol
also if they have laid eggs they might just come back so go over multiple times over the sand and check you live rock since most worms eat decaying matter or algae so they might to areas were that is like rocks or sand
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also if they have laid eggs they might just come back so go over multiple times over the sand and check you live rock since most worms eat decaying matter or algae so they might to areas were that is like rocks or sand
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Oh I don't plan to put them back in, the question is how detrimental are they, and what should I do about any others (leave them be vs. active eradication). These four were pretty big, but I scooped up the mangrove trees/sand piles with a shovel and transferred 3 huge scoops, so I doubt t I go them all. Here's some more pictures.
yep brisstle and a painfull sting\
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and in saying bristle cause i belive i see little spikes but those could be legs i looked alot into worms since there was alot of dead ones in my live rock when i got it and seen them at pet co but im still new to all of this so dont do anything just based on my word
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All About Bristle Worms
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and in saying bristle cause i belive i see little spikes but those could be legs i looked alot into worms since there was alot of dead ones in my live rock when i got it and seen them at pet co but im still new to all of this so dont do anything just based on my word
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Way larger than any bristle worm I've ever seen. The one in that image is near 12" long when fully stretched. That's 13"x9" tray.
My eyes may be off, but those look too dark to be bristle worms to me [emoji848]
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ya as said i mot sure but all the black worms i can find are not that mouth shape or meant for feeding so my idea was what if those spines were bristle they cane b up to 24 inches but as said im most licky wrong the next step would be looking through ever Wikipedia page and worm book but that's too long for me right now since im busy stopping a cat from ruining axis and allies
fisrt of all, never, ever flush any marine lifedown the toilet. it could lead to contamination and introduction of invasive bacteria / species / etc./ it does not look like any bristle worm I've ever seen but i am only familiar with fire bristle worms. these could be
genus Eunice
genus Eunice
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The close up pic of the mouth kinda looks like a bobbit worm. And they grow huge. Did you have any fish go missing in the past year or so? 
Bobbit worm
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In my limited research, the evil bobbit worm has 5 tentacles on the mouth... this only seems to have two. I would not be surprised if it's a eucilid species, though. still shopping. Another option would be Oenone Fulgida, but those tend to be orange from what I'm reading. If it was that would explain my perpetual tridacna clam loss, though.
my Latin is rusty. Eunice means species or is it already descriptive of the aphrogitois? (i.e. is Eunice a common description for different types of worms in one family or unique to the bobbit worm?)
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The Eunice is the genus, not the species. There are dozens if not hundreds of eunice species from what I gather.
I'm pretty sure these are Eunice worms, after finding another in the sand that is in the tank. We shall see what, if anything, I do about them.
I'm pretty sure these are Eunice worms, after finding another in the sand that is in the tank. We shall see what, if anything, I do about them.
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The more I look at them, the more I think it’s just 1 worm that I chopped up a few times while digging through the sand to move the mangrove trees. I’ve only seen 1 head on all the worms.
