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04-05-2006, 03:34 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
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sand monster?
these are growing out of my sand bed and some from my LR... what are they?
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 I mix twinkies and ding dongs all the time, in Europe they call it a Dinky -- Homer Simpson
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04-05-2006, 03:53 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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Aiptasia maybe?
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04-05-2006, 04:21 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
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no, it is a worm of some type, they go out up to 4-6"
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I mix twinkies and ding dongs all the time, in Europe they call it a Dinky -- Homer Simpson
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04-05-2006, 06:48 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Magna, Utah
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I have the same thing growing out of my LS in my sump ... so I am going to tag-o-long .... 
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04-05-2006, 06:57 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Oregon City
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I forget how to spell the name but they dont hurt anything
CLH
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04-05-2006, 07:27 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
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very nice, thanks for the link.
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I mix twinkies and ding dongs all the time, in Europe they call it a Dinky -- Homer Simpson
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04-05-2006, 08:44 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Newberg,Oregon
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I have them in my display tank and my 'fuge.There's even one in the entrance to my mantis shrimp's burrow.They collect and eat detritus. |
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04-05-2006, 09:02 PM
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Junior Reefer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New Jersey, USA
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HELP! SAND MONSTER!!! haha nah. Just a pasta worm or something like taht i believe. Safe for the reef 
Later:
Nevermind. its spaghetti worm lol not pasta
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04-21-2006, 03:55 AM
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Oh I wish I was.......
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: georgia
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Gotta love spaghetti worms.. Cool to have. I know a lot of folks who have paid for them.. ipsf sells them as mamamia worms |
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04-21-2006, 06:14 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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I'd pull it out and see!
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04-21-2006, 08:39 AM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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Pasta for lunch sounds good.
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04-22-2006, 12:21 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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Is this what is looks like?
If so, you have a beneficial benthic creature, the Spaghetti worm. A Terebellid, one of the Timarete spp., they come free with good live rock, and occupy the finer sands (sugar size and up to 2mm diameter grains. Of the Family Cirratulidae, may be brown, brown with yellow gands, red, bright orange. It is a small burrowing worm that has two anterior clusters of fine groved tentacles that it uses to capture bacteria and organic detrital substances for nutrition depending on particle size:
They are very beneficial to systems with DBS substrates, they will multiply in your system so long as there is little predation pressure (wrasses, for example...)
HTH
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05-20-2006, 09:24 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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You're so nearly right Tom you deserve a cigar anyway!  The worm is indeed in the family cirratulidae but there's no way to know just from the tentacles if it belongs to the genus Timarete or another genus, or if it belongs to the group with 2 clusters of feeding appendages or the group with just one pair. The drawing you posted is of a terebellid which is another family completely. Everything else you said is dead on.
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05-22-2006, 01:54 PM
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Saltwater Mom
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ga
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Multiply is putting it lightly. At one point they were everywhere in my sb and started moving to the live rock. Now when I clean my tank I pull a few out to keep them from getting so bad. Cool to watch a few cause they do strange things with the sand but I still want to see my sand  . I just recommend you keep them under control. |
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