Some “scary” worms enjoy munching on corals. I’m not sure what this one was, but I prefer to just keep them out of the aquarium. I find worms like this very frequently on new corals. Scary Worms – May or May Not Be Reef Safe These are like miniature hard-tube feather dusters that over cover glass in low-flow areas. The sediment is used to build the tube.īasically, if you have a feather duster hitchhiker, place it in lower flow (cilia are more efficient) and enjoy it! The “feathers” are actually called radioles, and cilia (finger-like projections) on the radioles move captured food particles and sediment to the center. At the end of this post you will find a link to the rest of her invertebrate series of blog posts.įeather dusters are actually filter-feeding worms that live in a paper-like or cement-like tube (often encased in rock or the sand.) Most that come in as hitchhikers will do just fine in the home aquarium, but larger ones sold at stores often slowly perish in all but the largest aquariums (likely from a lack of food). This is an excerpt from her post (reposted with her permission) on identifying worms. Nikki wrote a series of posts on how to identify invertebrates. She has about 400 gallons of saltwater aquariums in her home at any given point, and her aquariums are SPS-dominant. ![]() It is owned by Nikki who is an aquarist with over 25 years of experience with more than five years of experience in saltwater aquariums. While browsing my favorite aquarium forum on the web ( /r/aquariums), I came across a new aquarist blog called Coral Ever After.
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