Help ID this worm/creature

[wormboy]

bug in question, image hosting site is postimages since it came up first.


this dude showed up on my GSP in a little barnacle/tube worm looking growth on sunday, noticed in the morning when I was switching lights from night to day the polyps on the GSP were all hiding, waited an hour and came back to this guys arms/antennae feeling all over the GSP and the rock it was on picking up bits of stuff to eat, but eventually the coral adapted and started to open regardless of the things arms wrapping all over the polyps and around them for food

Fast forward to now and as I am preparing my shears to frag the coral so I can get a better look at it's housing and/or frag and then rehome the bit of coral it was living on to a new area to see what it did I saw the little thing was out and actively crawling around and managed to get this picture of it.


I cannot for the life of me find ANYTHING that looks remotely similar to this besides a spaghetti worm, except if this is a spaghetti worm it's having a for sure good hair day. Any leads would be appreciated as I would love to know if, 1; I should remove them 2; anything at all about them since I have no idea what this is and if it's okay to keep in my reef tank, as I would hate to lose any corals and hate even more if this grew up to eat my ice storm clowns.


Thanks

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

Pictures please

 

[wormboy]

Pictures please

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

Wow, i’ve seen anything like that. I hope someone weighs in soon. I’m intrigued

 

[toygrr]

On some of my rock I also see a couple of tentacles in a pair like that, most similar to the third picture. I've never seen the body of it, just assumed it was a spaghetti worm...

so anyway, bump, I'm curious too.

 

[wormboy]

bug in question, image hosting site is postimages since it came up first.


this dude showed up on my GSP in a little barnacle/tube worm looking growth on sunday, noticed in the morning when I was switching lights from night to day the polyps on the GSP were all hiding, waited an hour and came back to this guys arms/antennae feeling all over the GSP and the rock it was on picking up bits of stuff to eat, but eventually the coral adapted and started to open regardless of the things arms wrapping all over the polyps and around them for food

Fast forward to now and as I am preparing my shears to frag the coral so I can get a better look at it's housing and/or frag and then rehome the bit of coral it was living on to a new area to see what it did I saw the little thing was out and actively crawling around and managed to get this picture of it.


I cannot for the life of me find ANYTHING that looks remotely similar to this besides a spaghetti worm, except if this is a spaghetti worm it's having a for sure good hair day. Any leads would be appreciated as I would love to know if, 1; I should remove them 2; anything at all about them since I have no idea what this is and if it's okay to keep in my reef tank, as I would hate to lose any corals and hate even more if this grew up to eat my ice storm clowns.


Thanks

Bump and also I moved some rocks around to prepare for an anemone and found this under one of the rocks, it was anchored to the rock I picked up and the one it's on, still unsure what it is.

 

[wormboy]

bug in question, image hosting site is postimages since it came up first.


this dude showed up on my GSP in a little barnacle/tube worm looking growth on sunday, noticed in the morning when I was switching lights from night to day the polyps on the GSP were all hiding, waited an hour and came back to this guys arms/antennae feeling all over the GSP and the rock it was on picking up bits of stuff to eat, but eventually the coral adapted and started to open regardless of the things arms wrapping all over the polyps and around them for food

Fast forward to now and as I am preparing my shears to frag the coral so I can get a better look at it's housing and/or frag and then rehome the bit of coral it was living on to a new area to see what it did I saw the little thing was out and actively crawling around and managed to get this picture of it.


I cannot for the life of me find ANYTHING that looks remotely similar to this besides a spaghetti worm, except if this is a spaghetti worm it's having a for sure good hair day. Any leads would be appreciated as I would love to know if, 1; I should remove them 2; anything at all about them since I have no idea what this is and if it's okay to keep in my reef tank, as I would hate to lose any corals and hate even more if this grew up to eat my ice storm clowns.


Thanks

 

[Elisabeth GER]

Unfortunately, my English isn't very good.

The pictures aren't very clear, but it could be an https://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/tiere/2280_Phyllochaetopterus_sp01.htm.

Compare the pictures.

It's harmless.

Best regards, Elisabeth