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    Posted: June 28 2006 at 5:20pm
Not sure where to post this so I will try here...
 
Cannot get a picture they are to small for the camera to pick-up.....
 
I was looking at my Live Rock earlier and noticed something funny / strange.  Crawling along it (or out of it in another case) was what looks like a worm of some sort...
 
It looks like angel hair pasta - Thin and white / clear - It has one end tucked into a crevace in the rock and is streatching with it's other end (assuming the mouth end) - It seems to be eating (or at least streatching - FORGIVE MY SPELLING - thinking not typing... towards my green hair algae) maybe even eating it... 
 
There are a few of them, they are various sizes - a couple are even sliding across the rock, not tucked in .....
 
With this poor description anyone have any idea ?  I'd rather not have to kill them as they are part of the eco-system - But if they are bad I need to know so I can possibly try and control them..
 
Any help would be great....  Thanks in advance


Edited by Tony - June 28 2006 at 5:20pm
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Could be Speghetti Worm (harmless) but I'm no expert.
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Welcome Tony.Smile

A spaghetti worm has ~6 long thin tentacles that reach out  from a central mouth/body. The body is shaped like a torpedo. This worm sounds different than that.
99.99% of all marine worms are beneficial.
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