Need Help IDing worms.

[Monad]

I messed up. I should have bought the quarantined trochus snails from algae barn.

My fish store had some in so I purchased them. I noticed they had little bits of hair algae growing on them but weren’t too bad.

Anyway, I mistook some hitchhikers for part of their shells. They created a tube out of what felt like mud and sand. They scraped off pretty easy when I inspected them tonight.

I found these worms in the tube.

Anyone have any idea what these are and should I be worried. I realize the pictures are not the best but it’s all I could manage with my phone. I also could have gotten a better image of the tube.

Any help IDing would be greaty appreciated.

 

[timmyrules]

BUMP!

 

[PharmrJohn]

Can you take a picture of an example in your tank? It may help. But I can call someone who might know. @ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[Monad]

Can you take a picture of an example in your tank? It may help. But I can call someone who might know. @ISpeakForTheSeas

Best you're going to get is the third picture. I scraped them off the snails.

 

[PharmrJohn]

Best you're going to get is the third picture. I scraped them off the snails.

Got it. Yeah, I'm stumped on this one.

 

[Monad]

Got it. Yeah, I'm stumped on this one.

Me too. Because it doesn't feel like a hard shell. It feels more a mud cover. It's hard, but scrapes off with a little bit of pressure and crumbles under pressure easily.

 

[Coral Memere]

At first I thought Spionid, but now I'm thinking vermetid because they're making their own tube. Did the tube curl and the bug hde in the bottom? When my cuc with shells get old, I have to scrape the vermited off them.

 

[Monad]

At first I thought Spionid, but now I'm thinking vermetid because they're making their own tube. Did the tube curl and the bug hde in the bottom? When my cuc with shells get old, I have to scrape the vermited off them.

What do you mean by curl? The tubes did follow the contour of the snails shell. The tubes did not move when I touched them.

The worms did seem to be hiding inside. But they weren't either out when I spied them on the snails.

 

[Coral Memere]

The snail builds it's own shell and looks like the first curl of a soft-serve ice cream cone, then it has a tube it sticks it's head out. The one in the pic is older.

 

[Monad]

The snail builds it's own shell and looks like the first curl of a soft-serve ice cream cone, then it has a tube it sticks it's head out. The one in the pic is older.

That's what I thought to, but the tube looks nothing like the pictures of vermitid snail tubes I have seen in pictures.

Has anyone here gone fly fishing? It was almost like the tubes fly larvae form when their nymphs living on the bottom of the rivers and streams. Like it was made of mud the worm collected.

I really wish I kept them around and took more pictures.

 

[Coral Memere]

That's what I thought to, but the tube looks nothing like the pictures of vermitid snail tubes I have seen in pictures.

Has anyone here gone fly fishing? It was almost like the tubes fly larvae form when their nymphs living on the bottom of the rivers and streams. Like it was made of mud the worm collected.

I really wish I kept them around and took more pictures.

Sadly, you can probably try again with the next one.

Hopefully, you won't need to because you found them and that's the end of this question!!!