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Jeremyw 
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 3:20pm |
I got this off of a scolys. I was told by a LFS that they got a shipment in full of bad parasites and to check the bottom of all my corals. Does anyone know what this is? Sorry for the bad picture it was taken with a crappy phone.
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 5:12pm |
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Kinda hard to tell from that picture, but maybe some sort of peanut worm?
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 5:35pm |
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Where did you pick that up? What store?
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 5:43pm |
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It was on the back of several Australian corals that were bought I don't want to say the store here on the forum but I will pm it to you.
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 6:14pm |
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Thank you! Did you dip before you put them in your tank?
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 6:20pm |
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Yup always dip
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 8:10pm |
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looks wrong lol i heard this guys are harmless
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Posted: August 03 2010 at 12:07am |
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It's no peanut worm, it looks like it has a hard shell.
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Posted: August 03 2010 at 9:59am |
It is either a Vermitid snail or a Feather Duster Worm. Both are good. No worries mate. 
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 1:02am |
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I don't think it is a Vermitid snail or a Feather duster worm by the look of the picture Mark, I still have no idea what it is Jeremy sorry buddy.
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Posted: August 08 2010 at 9:09am |
By the look of the picture compared to what I have seen, it is most likely a Vermitid snail. Please realize that identification cannot be made by just looking at the tube. In order to go further, we would need to know what comes out of the tube. Disneymania may have thought it was one of the "bad parasites" the LFS warned about so may have removed and destroyed it. Did the LFS describe these parasites? For what it's worth, please try to understand that 99% of the types of things we find in our tanks is not bad. But I will go even further to say that 99% are not simply harmless, but are actually a good and necessary part of the living environment of our little slice of the sea. That other 1% helps keep the 99 in line.  I can say with 100% confidence that the invertebrate that lives in that tube is not a bad parasite.
Edited by Mark Peterson - August 08 2010 at 9:17am
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