What worm am I?

Bought a large goniopora colony the other day. When fully retracted I saw this long segmented thing stretched across the skeleton. Both ends were small and it looked like it had random single hairs sticking out everywhere along the body, no clusters like a bristle worm.

To be safe I pulled it off with tweezers and bagged it for photo before it found its way to my toilet drainage system. What is it??

 

picture is tough to id so take a look at this link and see if you can id it since you have better idea what it actually looked like

Worm Hitch Hikers

 

Take a look at Eunicids known better as rock worm. I think that is what you had.

 

looks bad.

 

dude you crack me up

 

Well I'm glad I flushed it. I thought a Eunice as well but dust see the crazy mouth appendages. Also it wasn't attached inside the rock at all the entire worm was crawling on the body.

I did do some research and there are many different species of Eunice worms some bad like the bobbit others are just detritus feeders it seems. Glad I got rid of it though.

 

Alex you giving everyone worm paranoia.:-/

But yeah that does not look like a friendly bristleworm.

 

all worms are bad, get a life. All crabs are bad too.

 

Looks like the coral eating worm I killed a few years ago.

 

How did you know the worm was eating your coral??

Good news is any worms that venture into the open my melarus wrasse makes pretty short work of. Hardly have any bristle worms anymore I used to have so many if see them fight with corals for food before I got the wrasse.