Do i keep it or burn it with fire?

[clowner]

Setting up fuge and bought some spanking brand new Chaeto or veggie spaghetti as i like to call it when I noticed this little guy floating around so is this one of those mythical beast that will eventually be 6 feet and come out at night and haunt me like freddy or is this one of the little buggers that eats crap my spoiled fish neglect

 

[AlexStinson]

Looks like a little nudibranch of some sort. Kill it to be safe, unless someone has better ID.

 

[Duke4Life]

Looks like some type of nudibranch. Have any aiptasia?

 

[Duke4Life]

Looks like a little nudibranch of some sort. Kill it to be safe, unless someone has better ID.

Don't kill pass on 2 someone that has aiptasia :)

 

[TheEngineer]

Looks like a feather worm to me not a nudi. Hard to tell though.

@Lionfish Lair ?

 

[cloak]

I'm not sure what that is exactly, but I would just toss it over your shoulder and forget about it. I'm pretty sure it won't be missed. :)

 

[AlexStinson]

Don't kill pass on 2 someone that has aiptasia :)

You realize it is one specific nudi that eats aptasia right? There are over 3000 species of nudibranchs, many of which do harm to the tank, such as the montipora eating and zoanthid eating varieties, all of which can become a potential disaster.

 

[clowner]

It's pretty hard to photograph it was free swimming and I haven't put it in the fuge yet . The Chaeto.

 

[Duke4Life]

It's pretty hard to photograph it was free swimming and I haven't put it in the fuge yet . The Chaeto.

Not a nudi. Looks like something off the move Alien though.

 

[TheEngineer]

That second pic looks like a fan worm to me

 

[AlexStinson]

Ok, now it looks more like a sabellidae worm. But I still go with toss it out for safety. If in doubt throw it out!

 

[saltyphish]

unless you can get a 100% id get rid of it. As mentioned above some nudi's are bad,bad,bad.

 

[Duke4Life]

You realize it is one specific nudi that eats aptasia right? There are over 3000 species of nudibranchs, many of which do harm to the tank, such as the montipora eating and zoanthid eating varieties, all of which can become a potential disaster.

I take for granted that everyone quarantines sometimes.

 

[clowner]

Okay here's some more 4k fashion shots

 

[AlexStinson]

Yeah with that I would say its 99% a sabellidae (feather duster) worm of the small variety. They are extremely common in established systems. Do whatever you want with it, there will be plenty more where that came from.

 

[TwelveL16]

its definitely not a nudi

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

they are baby feather dusters. if you like them keep them. they will reproduce fast but if you have a butterfly fish, it will take care of them.

 

[Salty1962]

Definite feather duster out of it's tube.

 

[Sabellafella]

Yup its deffinitly mylastname+worm. You could keep it if you want, i have quite a few hangin around in my sump