Name that tube!!

[reefer madness]

Last night, as I love to do, I had the flashlight out looking in my tank when I saw a couple of filaments floating about and followed them. They looked similar to the filaments leathers put out when stinging other corals. I fillowed them down to this tube-like thing between two mushrooms. You cannot see it during the day when the shrooms expand. I was wondereing, WHAT THE HECK IS IT?

I took a pic with my flash last nite and although it showed up it is not the best pic.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l102/garyebrown/tube.jpg

Thanks for any help
Gary

[reefer madness]

I don't know if this may help or not but the tube is larger than the ones for xmas tree worms or the small feather dusters often seen on our rocks. It is much smaller than a regular feather duster.

It also has done no damage to either shroom.

Gary

[mark0933]

Hey Gary, look up "peanut worm"

Mark

[reefer madness]

I think that is what it is. Those were feeding tenacles that I saw, not stingers. The tube is flask shaped where it is mounted on the rock. Thanks Mark, I'd never seen one before. I seem to learn something new everyday!

Gary

[hermitcrab]

Probably a spaghetti worm.

[icyuod2]

peanut worms actually role in on themselves,(grey/black striped) and they dont have long feelers. your probably looking at some sort of spagetti worm (hard to tell from the pic.)
both are pictured here
http://www.pirx.com/gallery/worms?page=2
and both very commom in the aquarium, i'm surprized you havent seen one before.

also see sessle snail and vermited snail. both sling out web like feeders/feelers.

[reefer madness]

It doesn't look like any of those to me.

I've got lots of spagetti worms in my sandbed and this isn't the same as those. The tentacles are much longer like 8" or so where my spagetti worms I never see extend beyond a couple of inches or so but no where near as far as these.

I had a friend come over today that showed me a way to get a better pic at nite so I will try again today when I get home from work. When the lights are on and even just before the 2 shrooms totally cover the tube.

Still looking
Gary

[reefer madness]

Well I have been doing a lot of reading and researching today and I found out it is a snail. It sure doesn't look like any snail I have seen before. It is a vermited snail. Ron Shimek has written a couple of good articles on them.

Worms that ain't.. (http://www.reefs.org/library/aquarium_net/0897/0897_8.html)

and

Snails That Worm Their Way Into Tanks (http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php)


Thanks guysI learned a lot

Gary