PIC ADDED id help

[reeferRob]

i justr recieved a shipment of zoos and while i weas putting them intoi the tank a critter jumped off into the water. My tang bit it and spit it out

It was about 1 1/2 inches long and looked sorta like a leech, it has a slender worm like body, but at the tip it had like 4 fangs or claws in order to grab it's prey i guess. Any ideas? I looked through Melev's but didn't see it.


Thanks

Rob

[JimD]

What color was it? Might be a nudibrach.

[reeferRob]

didn't look like a nudi at all, it was sorta mottled color grey/black/white, like a starfish leg but it had 3 or 4 tiny hooks at the mouth end

[reeferRob]

I never woulda thought i could get a pic of something that small, but here it is.

http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/1454P1010077-med.JPG

[JimD]

Looks like a bristleworm to me...

[reeferRob]

Jim I have a few bristle worms, and they look nothing like this thing, of course they are much larger (are they safe, i assume so, good detritus eaters) but their mouth is sorta pointed, this thing has like a blunt mouth with these hooks for lips

[reeferRob]

i know it's a little trouble, but if you click on the www button below and click twice on the same pic from photobuckets webpage, it gets much larger and easier to see

[JimD]

A bristleworm is a polychaete. Need a better pic.

[reeferRob]

A bristleworm is a polychaete. Need a better pic.

That thing Joshua posted looks a little more like it, I have a 3.5 megapixel camera and limited photography skills so that is about as good as it gets for me. Sorry.

Thanks for your help guys!! If anyone else has any input ... ie good/bad/indifferent, chime in please!


Thanks

[reeferRob]

A bristleworm is a polychaete. Need a better pic.

That thing Joshua posted looks a little more like it, I have a 3.5 megapixel camera and limited photography skills so that is about as good as it gets for me. Sorry.

Thanks for your help guys!! If anyone else has any input ... ie good/bad/indifferent, chime in please!


Thanks

[Noodle]

Maybe an Eunicid polychaete?

[beareef19]

I had one of those and it definatly wasnt a bristle worm, it looked more like a centipede it made tubes by using the substrate and kind of glued it together and it would move through the tubes. It seemed to always build the tubes around my green stars and then I found out why! It was eating them, It is no longer with us ^_^ Rest in Peace <_<
Barry

[reeferRob]

i have been reading about the polychaetes and i believe it is, althogh i think as best as i can tell ut is a clamworm. the research varies greatly though, for instance one source says 5400 species of polychaete, where another quotes "more than 8000 species". But anyway it is in the bristle worm arena, and whether fortunately or unfortunately down in my ceptic tank.

Thanks to all for the input!!