ID Please

Blom · #1 09-08-2011, 08:12 PM

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

Haloreef · #2 09-08-2011, 08:27 PM

Spaggetti worm???
Keith.

ScubaSteve · #3 09-08-2011, 08:32 PM

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

Snappy · #4 09-08-2011, 09:59 PM

Blom · #5 09-10-2011, 07:37 PM

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 · #6 09-10-2011, 08:20 PM

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 · #7 09-10-2011, 10:12 PM

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

Myka · #8 09-10-2011, 10:37 PM

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

Wayne · #9 09-12-2011, 02:50 AM

Sweet I have these aswell

Thanks Blom and the posters for the ID