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09-20-2006, 12:47 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 4,609
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something digging tunnels!
This is probably the weirdest thing I have seen in my 24 gal nano. There are tunnels in the sand I can see from the sides of the glass. Some of those are worms, no big deal. But a couple of them are like chutes through which "something" is shooting up sand and making a little pile at the top. I NEVER see the actual creature. Just the sand coming up! What the heck is it?
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09-20-2006, 01:19 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Stoneville, NC
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without a pic of the creature its hard to say for sure. theres lots of kinds of worms and pods that will dig tunnels in the sand. i dont know of any that are harmful.
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09-20-2006, 02:56 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
Posts: 9,683
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need a pic. could be bristle worms or spagetti worms.
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09-20-2006, 03:11 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Essex UK
Posts: 677
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anything like this?
If so twitterbait hit the nail on the head with a spaghetti worm |
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09-22-2006, 08:56 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Corning, California
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are they bad worms??
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09-22-2006, 03:13 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Essex UK
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Good guys from my experience and what i've read, seem to drag any dirt with their tenticles and i guess eat it.
Heres a cool site that i look at when i see anything alien in my tank. You'll probably not see the body of the worm just the tenticles, i have a few living in my rock and also the substrate, ugly critters. It was a few days after that pic that the tenticles appeared
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09-28-2006, 11:50 AM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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yes, I see piles of sand like that one in the picture! And also I have seen these pink, kind of irridescent fat worms (slugs) with a sucker mouth and they do eat the sand! I can see it going through their little bodies. But I would like to know if these are good or bad. I can't believe it does not hurt to have that sand going down!
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09-30-2006, 10:11 AM
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clown fishy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: sunny southern california
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you got some spaghetti worms!
they are beneficial, you can even buy some to help clean the tank on some of TRT's sponsors.
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09-30-2006, 10:11 AM
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clown fishy
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JY13131
yes, I see piles of sand like that one in the picture! And also I have seen these pink, kind of irridescent fat worms (slugs) with a sucker mouth and they do eat the sand! I can see it going through their little bodies. But I would like to know if these are good or bad. I can't believe it does not hurt to have that sand going down!
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sounds like chitons???
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09-30-2006, 12:59 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Stoneville, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JY13131
yes, I see piles of sand like that one in the picture! And also I have seen these pink, kind of irridescent fat worms (slugs) with a sucker mouth and they do eat the sand! I can see it going through their little bodies. But I would like to know if these are good or bad. I can't believe it does not hurt to have that sand going down!
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going from that, assuming they are in the sand, i would guess a worm from the Capitellidae family. heres a link with some pics of a few from that family. http://links.baruch.sc.edu/Data/Spec...icinfauna.html but without a good upclose pic its near impossible to ID a worm.
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10-10-2006, 12:02 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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Yeah that looks like them except that you cannot tell the color of those from the picture. Mine are a pretty pink! I was nudging them too much so they have now moved to safer quarters in the middle of the tank!
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10-10-2006, 12:27 PM
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ΤΏΤ
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon
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I have spegettis, but they don't do that (at least mine don't)
I think you have scuba ants.
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10-13-2006, 01:04 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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WHAT!!! I could not find ANY information on a scuba ant!
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10-13-2006, 01:09 PM
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ΤΏΤ
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon
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LOL sorry, I was joking.
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10-13-2006, 08:07 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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I know. So was I.
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