New Creature!

[Fegenbush]

I was enjoying my 75gl tank last night just watching the fish and snails and crabs working away when I noticed someting on a piece of live rock! This rock has been in this tank for three plus years and as I looked closer with a red light and a magnifying glass there was a tentical coming out of a hole in the rock! I thought it was a worm, but it never came all the way out. It was about a MM around and would come out about 3/4 to 1 inch and looked like it was eating debry off the rock I tried to get a picture of it but my Impieral Angel is a camera hog..:) what could this worm looking thing be? I noticed some smaller ones coming out of the same rock ( an old piece of coral ) but no other rocks seemed to have them.
Thanks guys you have really helped me in the past, I just don't want undesirable creatures in the tank!

[Sherita]

Mini serpent star. They show up in most everyones tank at some point, great detrivore. Won't hurt a thing :)

I have untold numbers of the little creatures in my tanks, they do a great job of cleaning up.

They hide in holes in the rocks. You will never see the whole thing unless you just get really lucky and uncover one while moving stuff around.

[Mike]

Bristleworm? Also good scavengers, some people hate them but we only pull them when they get pretty big.

[Fegenbush]

Thanks guys I have a big serpent star that comes out when I'm feeding the rest of the fish. This must be a bristle worm as it appears to eat at the very end of the tentical or mouth, it is transluciant and I can see the stuff it is eating going down the length of the body as it picks around. If it is exceptable I'll let it stay. Thanks again.

[FireWater]

Try a search for peanut worm.

[justahobby]

Look up peanut worm. That sounds like what you saw.