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  1. Rawdogz

    Rawdogz Torch Coral

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    Found this guy swimming in my sump
     

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  2. Biocube

    Biocube Giant Squid

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    Looks like a baby bristle worm.

    I am usually wrong when it comes to these things. ;)
     
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  3. Arringar

    Arringar Plankton

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    Not a bristle. It looks like an annelid worm out of its tube. Does it literally swim freely in open water?
     
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  4. Reefling

    Reefling Astrea Snail

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    yeah id have to agree with bristle worm
     
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  5. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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  6. Greg@LionfishLair

    Greg@LionfishLair 3reef Sponsor

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    At first, I thought it's a peanut worm (Sipunculid), but in one of the other pix, I saw the "bristles"...

    If it is actively swimming in a corkscrew-type motion, it's most likely an epitoke, which is how bristleworms reproduce.
     
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  7. Rawdogz

    Rawdogz Torch Coral

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    it was free swimming in the sump thats how i seer it, kinder look like a Nereid worm too because of the fat head.
     
    Rawdogz, Aug 30, 2012
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  8. IvIountainman

    IvIountainman Spaghetti Worm

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    looking at the last pic it resembles a rather small eunicid. based on the head.
     
    IvIountainman, Aug 31, 2012
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