white spinny thing!!

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  1. Coastie Reefer

    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    Today when I went to feed my fish this white worm like thing about 3/16" long came out of nowhere swimming like a spinning corkscrew! I think I managed to get it out but I'm 100% on that. Anyone have an idea of what the heck this thing is? I freaked me out!!
     
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  2. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    Sounds like a epitok bristle worm. It's a stage of reproduction.
     
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    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    good, bad, indifferent?
     
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  4. Corailline

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    No not bad, I get them from time to time usually at night and usually quite a few at a time. I have about a 2 foot bristle worm in my tank and when it reproduces I see them for about 2 hours.
     
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  5. Coastie Reefer

    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    WHA....WHAT. Seriously 2', that's crazy!!! I hope I never have one that big in any of my tanks.
     
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  6. Corailline

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    He is cool he lives in the burrow with my goby.

    The cork screw swimming is usually the detail to the ID, although I have see some large flatworms swim in a similar pattern, but with the white and spiny most likely a bristle worm. Google Epitok after you eat dinner, because you might loose you appetite.
     
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    LOL, thanks Coralline. Can always count on you for a quick ID;D
     
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