ID Please

[Blom]

Im assuming some sort of algae growth although a quick google didn't turn up anything. Thanks in advance.

http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/c/6/b/184899/004-2.jpg?rev=0

[Haloreef]

Spaggetti worm???
Keith.

[ScubaSteve]

Looks like a Spaghetti Worm to me. Harmless and a cool little critter. Read up on them, they're pretty neat.

[Snappy]

+3

[Blom]

Thanks for the help! I did some reading up on them here in last day or so and they are neat little guys. I was checking my "pocket expert guide to marine inverts" and it said for the spaghetti worm the feeding tentacles are white, tan or gray. Where as a Hair Worm (Cirratulid Species) can have yellow, tan or red "gills" and is often misidentified as a spaghetti worm. I'm not to sure as I haven't seen the body as of yet, and may not unless I go hunting. Might just have to wait till it matures as from the pictures I've seen there is no way of mistaking the spaghetti worms feeder tentacles spreading out.

[Myka]

The names Spaghetti Worm and Medusa Worm are interchangeable. The red ones are often called Medusa Worms even though they are the same specie. Both are Loimia medusa.

[Blom]

Thanks Myka. Looks like I need to go back to Bio10 and relearns me some Taxonomy.

[Myka]

Cirratulids are really close. Could be one or the other.

[Wayne]

Sweet I have these aswell :) Thanks Blom and the posters for the ID ;)