ID please

[pballer]

Ok so i was just randomly looking around my rock and noticed a new worm. Impossib le 4 me to get a good pic so i will describe. Its body looks like a bristle worm w/ the things on the side but its coloration is striped black and white like a zebra. any ideas???
TIA

[Paintbug]

take a look here. http://home2.pacific.net.ph/%7Esweet...itchworms.html .its hard enough to ID a worm with a pic, near impossible without.

[pballer]

kinda looked like this one

Syllidae SubFamily : Eusyllinae
i dont think there good how do i get rid of them???

[ChrisPrusha]

I couldn't find much on these worms besides research documents. I'll keep looking.

Have you seen more than one?

[BoomerMn]

Nice Link Paint, have not seen that one before

Also try here a Leslie's website.

http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/index.html

[Loverotties]

Worm

[LeslieH]

Black & white stripes could belong to one of many different polychaete worms. If your worm is really a syllid then it's probably a harmless tank citizen. Nearly all of them are thought to feed by piercing cells of algae or sponges with a tooth and sucking out the contents. I have seen a couple of posts concerning larger syllids in a different subfamily which bite chunks out of zoas.