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Originally Posted by J2T
Ok, just saw a few of these guys today, this being the largest. Couldn't get a decent pic but a video seems to show them well. They don't appear to eat at the zoa's but seem to sort of search over the rock...but if they are going to be a problem down the road I want to figure out how to get rid of them. They move pretty quick and their movements are more millipede like than centipede if that makes any sense. Thanks
http://youtu.be/1xHUfUzP0Z8 |
Yeah, it's a bristleworm (polychaete). If you check you can see tentacles on the head, eyes, and even segmentation. It's stretching out from its burrow to graze algae on the rock, that behavior and the general look of the worm makes me think it's a member of the family Dorvilleidae. Occasionally they crawl out to find food and if yours ever crawl onto the glass it'll
look similar to this. Incidentally the dark structures are its scissor-like jaws.