ID a LR hitch-hiker please

I just noticed this morning...



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Sorry for the bad quality photos...iPhone camera is crap!
Emm if you look at the blue patch in the middle, then look to the left, you can see a little orange thing coming out of the bottom rock.
From what i have seen, it looks like an orange worm. And it has white/orange spikes down its body.

Anybody know what it is?

Thanks,
John

 

looks to be some kind of bristleworm, some people are very hesitant about them being reef safe, but some people say they are a very essential part of a good clean up crew, really up to you to take your chances.. that picture is not very clear though as i don't think many people who really be able to identify exactly what it is
i personally don't like bristleworms in my tank, but i know a lot of other people do, let's leave it to some others to chime in here

 

Yeah I just googled bristleworm, and there alot of similar pictures. So its probabaly that.
Any chance my little hermits will kill it? How do i get rid of it myself if they dont?

 

if im looking at the right things, they look like feather dusters.

 

i can see why you think it's featherdusters but i think the top part of that orange thing sticking out of the liverock is just a shadow.. hermits will probably not get to it, most likely thing i think would be a cleaner shrimp, i've seen my cleaner shrimp munching on bristleworms on various occasions.. you can use a tweezer to get rid of it if it appears itself again, take a small flash light and tweezer and get it while it's out at night, or if you see it during the day, even easier

 

I dont have any cleaner shrimp yet. All I have in my tank at the moment are some hermits and snails to keep the algae under control. My tank hasnt completely cycled yet, but I will be adding some shrimp when it does.

Thanks,
John

 

I have never had any prob with bristleworms. You'll be fine. I dont think it is possible to have a reef tank without bristle worms.