a worm and i have no idea

Could someone please help id the worm in the first pic.The worm is very small it looks like a maroon color with white bands and there are spines all over it. The second picture is these tiny white very fine single stem with a rounded top also white.

Thank you!!

 

the pictures are a bit small, looks kinda like some sort of bristle worm.

 

Sounds like a bristle worm and looks like it, although the pictures are small and blurry. Probably not a bad thing. Wrasses, Coral Banded Shrimp, and many other things eat these guys.

 

I saw some bristle worms and i didn't think it was a bristle. Are there different types of bristle worms.

 

Looks like a bristle worm to me. I am pretty certain of it. There are two camps on BWs. Keep 'em and get rid of 'em. I am in the middle. Keep the small ones, and anything over two or three inches, attempt to catch and discard. Eventually, some species can get large enough to take out livestock.

But be careful. They can bite.....or sting.....not sure which. All I know is, it hurts. No hasn't happened to me. I've just read about it.

 

I agree with everyone that it is a bristle worm.. We have some of these in our tank and they would sting my husband every time he would pull the algae off our LR.. (im to short to reach that low in our tank..lol)

 

Does anyone know white the little white things are growing on my rock in the second pic?

 

thanks for the id on the worm !!

 

I figure for each one you see, there is 2 or 3 more that's hideing..
I use a turkey baster, sucks them right up.. Works 80 % of the time..
Do you have a good cleanup crew..?
Keeping your tank clean will help.. To much food, etc..
I have been thru this .
And still have a few that hide.. And as they said they help clean a tank, but you don't want them to get big.. And they do sting..

Good Luck, Larry

 

thanks for the tips Larry.