Stringy things coming from substrate??

[thirty5]

In my nano i have these stringy things coming out of the sand. They are all over the place. They look like threads but move. I stirred up one and it looked like a knot of thread. I know PICS are needed. But this might be a common thing that someone might just know what it is.

I will try to get a pic and post it. If it is a good thing (which I hope), i may move a few to my 75, and even put in the fuge..

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Sounds like bristleworms! If they are white and like an inch or so long they are bristleworms , if you have a melanarus wrasse , or a wrasse that's known for eating them cause opinions vary then u can control it a bit and they won't populate as much.

But if you wanna be a hundred percent sure ........ Let one wrap itself around your pinky finger, then u will know!!

 

[albano]

sounds like peanut worm...sending out 'feelers'

 

[tentacles]

peanut worm or spagetti worm. Doesn't really sounds like bristleworms.

 

[thirty5]

Def Not Bristle. I know what they are. The things coming out are literally like threads... I will google the above for pics. thanks.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Oh ok I gotta google it I may have those

 

[thirty5]

 

[Widdy]

Cirratulids.

 

[thirty5]

Thanks Widdy!!

 

[thirty5]

I think that I have alot of them, should I try to get rid of them>?

 

[Widdy]

I got a boatload Skeevs me out. Once in awhile I see one climbing the glass... but I think they're harmless.

 

[thirty5]

I was just reading that some people complain that they kill zoa colonies... I have noticed that once in a while they are in my one larger colony and the polyps wont open. I may try to get some of them out. easy enough to just pull them out of the sand...

 

[Widdy]

Yup! A lot lives under my colony of nuclear greens/purple deaths... doesn't appear to be bothering them though.

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

What are those?

 

[thirty5]

Cirratulids.

Spaghetti worms.

 

[FlyTekk]

I have spaghetti worms. dont look like that at all. Then again mine may not be spaghetti worms.

 

[thirty5]

Google. it... you will see pics

 

[FlyTekk]

Okay i see that there are many diff colors. Mine are all red. Yours seem to have stripes on the tentacles. Also i see yours has sand stuck to its body. i confused it for some type of exoskeleton. LoL. My bad.