Worm ID

[jahmic]

Thought I had a spaghetti worm living in this hole a while back...but what's with the mucous web? Is this normal? Or is there something else living in this LR that should be removed?

 

[Munch]

Bad pic/linky

 

[Cake_Boss]

Can't see pic

 

[CRW Reef]

Re: Worm ID

Thought I had a spaghetti worm living in this hole a while back...but what's with the mucous web? Is this normal? Or is there something else living in this LR that should be removed?

http://static.photobucket.com/playe...ll726/2013-02-14_18-35-48_827_zps883965ad.mp4

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[jahmic]

Can't see pic

Link: http://static.photobucket.com/playe...ll726/2013-02-14_18-35-48_827_zps883965ad.mp4


Sorry I suck at trying to embed videos from my phone. lol

 

[CRW Reef]

Appears to be a vemetid snail to me. Semi recent article by Jake Adams from Reef builders here.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/07/23/vermetid-snail-stony-corals/

 

[jahmic]

Appears to be a vemetid snail to me. Semi recent article by Jake Adams from Reef builders here.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/07/23/vermetid-snail-stony-corals/

well...I have those too, but they're really small and put out small strands of mucus. All of my vermetids look like the one pictured here on melev's site:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/vermetid.html

From what I could see...the "thing" in my video didn't have a hard shell and had a glob of mucus rather than just a small strand. I did eventually find out that spaghetti worms use a hardened mixture of mucus and sand to form the inside of their burrows...so I'm wondering if that's what was going on?

When I woke up this morning that web was gone...hopefully it retracted and didn't just blow onto some coral :/

(sweet video in that link, btw Chad. Don't think I've seen them up close like that before)