Thank you!!
So sorry for your lossDang it I lost the YWG to jumping
Never had a tang jump, but looked back at one of my fish stocking spreadsheets and remembered this guy (no idea why I keep spreadsheets for everything):
We moved and sold it, really wish I had just put it in storage. It was an upgrade from a 155g bowfront (never get a tank with a curve) and ran from 2011 to 2015. A dealer bought all the livestock and we had to break a bunch of coral apart to fit through the access holes in the top.
Was it swollen up on the end like this when you pulled it out? I ask because I'm not familiar with a worm that has such a drastically different end like this, but the rounded head like that tells me it's either a Lumbrinerid or Oenonid worm - either way, you probably don't want to keep it:
For Lumbrinerid worms:
"most lumbrinerids are carnivores on both sessile and motile prey, with a few herbivorous and subsurface deposit-feeding exceptions"*
The carnivorous ones tend to eat things like bivalves, snails, other worms, brittle starfish, and occasionally Heart Urchins (Spatangoida). The herbivorous ones feed on diatoms, sea grass, etc.
*Source:
Diet of Worms Emended: An Update of Polychaete Feeding Guilds - Appendix A - Family-by-Family Review
(The paper)
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Diet of Worms Emended: An Update of Polychaete Feeding Guilds | Annual Reviews
Polychaetes are common in most marine habitats and dominate many infaunal communities. Functional guild classification based on taxonomic identity and morphology has linked community structure to ecological function. The functional guilds now include osmotrophic siboglinids as well as...www.annualreviews.org
These ones are keepers - they're either Spaghetti or Hair worms:And too many of this one
