What is this thing?

[new but handy]

Anyone know what this is? It is a bad pick but I had to zoom way in and then try to clean it up. It is about 1/2" tall with Tenticles about an 1" long I can't tell if it is an animal or not. It seems to move but it could be the current. I
have a few of them as well as about 7 million feather dusters.
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/picture.php?albumid=54&pictureid=865
This one is just because I love it!
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/picture.php?albumid=54&pictureid=867
So is this!
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/picture.php?albumid=54&pictureid=866

[Leah]

Wow, very nice!

[Delphinus]

Spaghetti worm is my guess..

[new but handy]

Thanks I've got a few of them. They look sort of like tiny anemones. I assume they are filter feeders of some sort

[mseepman]

I've seen these in his tank and I would struggle to say spaghetti worm. It's a fixed cluster of arms that seem to all center around on "ball" area just under the sand. He's right that the picture doesn't do it justice because there are a lot of arms there.

[Delphinus]

But you just described a spaghetti worm.. :)

http://images.google.com/images?q=spaghetti+worm&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7R3JSfmDHZGUsAOl6Ml8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-06/rs/index.php

So that's my guess and I'm sticking with it for now! :lol:

There was a time you could actually buy these as sand dweeling janitors since they are pretty good at catching stray bits of food and detritus.

[mseepman]

Haha...so I did!!!:lol:

My concept of a spaghetti worm was more like a traditional worm. I have them, but I've never seen more than 1 or 2 arms out near any one spot.

Learn something new every day on this site!

[fishoholic]

Spaghetti worm is my guess..

+1 I agree.

[Myka]

Omg!!! Why do you always have to tease us with this gorg??? Like seriously!! Is it photosynthetic? Usually photosynthetics are less colorful, but it looks very happy...!


http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/picture.php?albumid=54&pictureid=866

[new but handy]

If it is a spaggetti worm wouldn't it move. there are about 5 of these things in my tank and they never move. They don't contract or anything.
Myka, No it isn't photsynthetic I don't think. I feed it alot. Coral frenzy and blender leavings

[Myka]

If it is a spaggetti worm wouldn't it move. there are about 5 of these things in my tank and they never move. They don't contract or anything.
Myka, No it isn't photsynthetic I don't think. I feed it alot. Coral frenzy and blender leavings

If they don't move or react when you touch them, then they aren't spaghetti worms. I'm more likely to think it is an algae then.

Dang! That is an awesome gorg! You're doing something right to be keeping it alive.

[new but handy]

My fear with the gorg is: I have been running a way undersized skimmer for 7months and I think that is why I have unbelieveable amounts of feather dusters and what not. now I have a "proper" sized skimmer. I will have to watch the gorg to see what happens. I just went through the pics of the spagettii worms and am fairly sure those are whats in there.
Thank you

[Myka]

Spaghetti worms move though...and react if you touch them, but they do look like spaghetti worms... *shrug*

[new but handy]

That gorg has grown about 20-25% since I got it in dec