Worm ID

Come to find out, I don't know everything LOL.

Anyone have a clue as to what this worm is? Just acclimated and placed this (free, yay!) zoa frag & saw this worm waving around. My pics were crap, so my boyfriend took this one. With the magnifying glass, it looks like it has tiny polyps clustered around on its "head" and I can see a few down the otherwise smooth, white body.

I'm googling now, but gotta finish packing for our trip to New Orleans for the next few days, so could use any quick help I can get!

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WOW I haven't seen one like that. Hopefully you'll get some answers soon.

 

Well, about the closest thing I could find was the Oenonid, but it really doesn't look like that either. That one is almost bristleworm-like and the one I have isn't. The one I have has more of a club-head. Right now it's irritating the crap outta my new zoas but I'm assuming they'll be fine since it came with them LOL. We thought it was gonna come out for a minute there, cuz it came out really far and was waving around like made in the current, but it pulled back.

 

well not sure about the worm but pretty zoas! XD

 

Thanks! My boyfriend went to get a ballast and some lights from a guy, and he gave him these (said they were Watermelon zoas), and a small favia frag (my boyfriend said it was war-something LMAO) for free. Good old 2nd hand info!

We just put a Red Sea xenia in yesterday as our first coral, so now we have 3.

He also gave us a bag of chaeto with all kinds of great critters in it (our original only had pods). So far I have spotted several brittle stars, a few stomatella snails, what I think is a Collonista snail (hard to tell cuz it was on the glass & the size of a grain of sand!), at least one asterina star I saw float off on a loose piece of chaeto, and a few very tiny (very angry) blue xenia pieces that were stuck in the strands of chaeto and must have been in the dark or unhappy about being in a sealed bag. I've never seen xenia this small, can't wait till it grows!!!

 

Well, I got half of it out LOL.

 

Worm Hitch Hikers

See if this helps, You might be able to find it here.

 

Yeah, I looked there, Salt, thanks. Actually was the first site I hit LOL. After looking again at the pics my boyfriend took (zoomed in), I'm pretty sure it was an Oenonid (clam & snail eater). It's body did have periodic little spikes down it. I'm sure, as a worm, me getting it's front half will only make it disappear for long enough to grow another head! At least I don't plan on keeping clams!

 

Well, apparently it's a digitate hydroid. I had no idea they could be so wormlike!!

 

OK, anyone know how to get rid of this thing? It's seriously ticking off my zoas! Last night with the lights down it was stretched WAY out and would reach around and touch each open zoa till it closed LOL. It LOOKS like it's just waving in the current, but I watched it for a while, and it would literally reach around the closed zoas and tap each open on on the mouth, then go back to looking like it was randomlly waving around!

Also, anyone know how they spread? My boyfriend said he saw a "worm" that looked like it swimming around in the tank trying to find a place to burrow in the sand. I asked him if it looked like a little bristlworm (we don't have any) and if it "exploded" (thinking epitoke) and he said no, that it was white & looked like the one on the zoas.