I found a weird worm with spike feet and umbrella mouth.

[PookieGV]

Is your house currently on fire? It should be ;Yuck

 

[MichelleRay]

Tempting but I think my coral would take exception.

I don't think it's a peanut worm. From what I'm seeing they don't have the spike feet like this one does?

 

[MichelleRay]

Since I cant be sure he isn't dangerous I suppose I'll have to dispose of him. Unless anyone here wants a mysterious worm?

 

[Dsnakes]

Since I cant be sure he isn't dangerous I suppose I'll have to dispose of him. Unless anyone here wants a mysterious worm?

@Shadowbass @Wiz

 

[Wiz]

I am not sure what it is at this moment but I would do some research when I get home. I would not mind taking him for my refugium assuming you don't mind sending him ground. I do not want to pay exorbitant shipping for a little worm. Either way I'll get back to you with what I think it might be.

 

[Wiz]

Also, cool find!

 

[MichelleRay]

I don't mind if you don't lol. Thanks for the ID attempt.

 

[Wiz]

In the pics the worm appears to have hair or tentacles. Is that algae or something? It appears gone in the second vid. Also the vid makes me feel like it could be an epitoke of a worm. The flair looks to me like a swimming apparatus. Could be way off though. The mouth appears sucker like. Is that acurate? The tail (i assume) looks almost club like. And the edges of the flaired area are just creepy. Lol cool stuff

 

[Maritimer]

That isn't anything I've ever seen before ... but it's a _very_ cool worm!

~Bruce

 

[NY_Caveman]

In the pics the worm appears to have hair or tentacles. Is that algae or something? It appears gone in the second vid. Also the vid makes me feel like it could be an epitoke of a worm. The flair looks to me like a swimming apparatus. Could be way off though. The mouth appears sucker like. Is that acurate? The tail (i assume) looks almost club like. And the edges of the flaired area are just creepy. Lol cool stuff

Nice. Learned a new word. Epitoke.
Looked it up and found this cool diagram.



The protrusions in the middle of the worm in the video (worm part 2) sure look like #2 in the image above.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Does not help ID the worm, I know, but still interesting.

 

[Wiz]

Cant find a good match. anyone tag @Lionfish Lair yet? Thats a cool vid

 

[Wiz]

Man its nasty! Lol

 

[MichelleRay]

I too have learned a new word LOL! That was indeed algae in the first video. There's still a few food pellets stuck to him in the second video which might be throwing you off a bit. As far as I can tell the back half doesn't have any long branching structures. More than anything it reminds me of a caterpillar with 2 rows of 'feet'. It seems now to have formed some kind of band around it's biddle, to which the food pellets have stuck. I have a new video which I will upload and post momentarily. I think you can see the feet a lot better in this one as the jar thing it's in is acting as a magnifier.

Also got a video of some flatworms and other worms and copepods crawling around my frag holder that will be posted elsewhere. They don't seem to be relations of this guy but came out nice so might be interesting anyway.

 

[Wiz]

Is the mouth sucker like?

 

[MichelleRay]

I'm not sure it came out as good as i thought. The focus seems to be off. I'll try and reshoot if it won't come it but right now I can't get it to play to check.

 

[MichelleRay]

Is the mouth sucker like?

I'm not sure. Not really I guess? When it extrudes what I assume to be the mouth, it looks like an umbrella with no spines. Reminds me more of the webbing between the legs of an octopus, like a thin membrane. You can see it happening in the photos I took if you look at the head end closely. Sort of reminds me of a snail mouth in a way.

 

[Wiz]

I'm not sure it came out as good as i thought. The focus seems to be off. I'll try and reshoot if it won't come it but right now I can't get it to play to check.

Its good that i find it interresting. Makes it worth the nightmares.

 

[Wiz]

The spines dont look like legs to me. Looks more like a grub of sorts. Thats why i think it may be an epitoke. The way it flairs could be to catch current. As well as the "umbrella or webbing" although the protrusions were quick. Hmmmm

 

[Wiz]

Every time I watch the video it reminds me of a leach. Defanitly a swimmer if movement is reliable. The way it wiggles in the first vid. And cant find purchase in the containor or cup. Wonder if its a parasite