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This one is growing on an empty hermit shell. (see attached pic) There are a few more on my rocks. It's pretty small, maybe 1/8 inch, certainly less than 1/4 inch. Some sort of tube worm???

I have a rock that used to be a colony of Green Mushrooms. It has since been taken over by murderous pesky villains who have overstayed their welcome and need to be irradiated. The tube worm has stayed through the whole ordeal and I would like to save it. I plan to remove the rock in full and...

For months now I've been watching what appears to be some type of tube worm living inside my torch coral. It looks like a small white opening in the center, and has 1 (now 2?) long white spindly fan that it claws the water column with. What is it? Is it harmful?

I found this today in a new mushroom rock that i got from my lfs. Not sure if its good or bad. I would like to know a name or species if possible. It has a crown that comes out of the tube but i can't get a pic of it. Thanks for the help

On my glass there are tiny black tube worms. They have the width of an eyelash and they are no more than 1/8" in length. They have little white "mouths" coming out of the black "tubes". There are around three on every square inch of my glass. I think that they are probably filter feeders...

I have a lot of tube worms in my tank. How does one get rid of them?

This thing has been in my tank for some time and hasn't caused any problems, but it did appear and grow up rather fast. Any ideas? EDIT: Doing some reading. Possibly Aiptasia???

I have this feather duster that came on some Caribbean live rock. It sort of looks like a Christmas Tree Worm. It is building a long shell like tube as opposed to the more transparent feather duster tube. It has a beautiful orange "skin flap" that shapes and molds the end of the tube. It's...

Hi guys any advice on what my tube worm is doing? I have had him in my tank since it was basically set up so about 7 months or so and his tube has always been a little ragged as other things have pecked at it in the past, but he's hanging out it as If he's going to leave the tube is this bad or...

is this a tube worms? sorry, my camera could not zoom more, is withe and tube looking. thanks.

I will be setting up an invert tank with feather dusters and coco worms as a focus. I also want shrimp, snails, nudibranches, and anenomies. My question is compatability. What can I have of the above that will not prey upon each other? I will have swimmers, but only as allowed by the above...

:help: Today we noticed a group of tubes coming up from the sand. The have two little tentacles that pop out and feel around, then go back inside when something disrupts them. We've had the same rock for about two years, and have not added anything new to the tank, so I'm not sure where they...

So i have this odddd creature in my tank. I bought a dying piece of green monti to test my led's to see if the lights would bring it back to life... I was suprised a few days later to see what looking like a Crown-less tubeworm with antenna popping in and out of it's tube. It also would let...

If the first image is aiptasia then what is the second image? I have several clumps of these all over my reef tank on the live rock. It seems to like heavy water movement. I apologize for the camera work it is my ipone camera, my camera is dead...