Tiny white worm-like explosion ID

[346700984]

One of our tanks has these tiny white worms(?). What are they? Thanks

 

[Benjammin]

Are your fish eating them?

 

[346700984]

Are your fish eating them?

I don’t think so

 

[fachatga]

Did you do something to stir up the sand or blow debris off rocks? Or did this start naturally where they were just like this all of the sudden?

 

[346700984]

Did you do something to stir up the sand or blow debris off rocks? Or did this start naturally where they were just like this all of the sudden?

It’s happening in the quarantine tank so there’s no sand or rock. But it just randomly started. I wonder if weeks, maybe a month ago when I put in inverts to quarantine if they carried in eggs or something of whatever these are..

 

[fachatga]

Good to hear it’s qt tank. Makes it easier to get rid of. No idea what they are though.

 

[346700984]

One of them is bigger in this spot on the glass

 

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[NashobaTek]

That bigger one looks like a bristle worm. But I have no clue what the rest are.

 

[N.Sreefer]

This is just a guess but mabey a species of Phyllodocida. An order of small Polychaetes (bristle worms)

 

[346700984]

It seems like maybe the small ones are growing into what the bigger one looks like. I hope I can figure this out so I know if they’re harmful or not.

 

[346700984]

This is just a guess but mabey a species of Phyllodocida. An order of small Polychaetes (bristle worms)

Thanks, I’ll look this up.

 

[fachatga]

Detritus worms?

 

[hans4811]

Bristle worms is my guess.

 

[Mr Mumblez]

Pretty sure these are good guys. I have them in my sump, they eat poop. Not sure what fish eats them but prolly some kinda wrasse will get good and fat in there. Lol

 

[Galeno rocha]

I have been also getting these in the last month or so. Any positive ID? I wanna know if they can be detrimental to soft corals, since mine seem quite unhappy currently. Or maybe it's the same root cause.