Bristleworm? Nudibranch? Was living in my carbon

[synapticfire]

I was removing a few hundred pineapple sponges from my carbon media bag and left it in a bowl of RO water. This guy apparently didn’t like the rapid desalinization.

 

[Formulator]

Creepy! Definitely looks like a worm and not nudibranch to me. Maybe an albino mutant bristleworm? I’m just speculating though, not an expert on worms. But I have seen a lot of nudibranch and I’m pretty sure that is not one.

 

[steveschuerger]

Definitely some weird looking kind of bristleworm type I think

 

[synapticfire]

Google image search came up with fireworm, but it has no color at all. Maybe it’s just a baby?

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Yeah, looks like a bristle worm.

 

[Formulator]

Bristle worms are great CUC. I’d definitely be putting that guy back in the DT, just as a conversation piece to be like “look at my mutant bristleworm!” LOL.

Related side bar - we used to have an albino whitetail deer living in the woods near the farmland we hunt. I was pleasantly surprised nobody shot it. I like to think all the hunters in the area were just so astonished by it that we let it go. It only lived for a year or two. Natural predator likely got it. Albinism is an unfortunate mutation for a prey animal…

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Definitely a bristleworm - it's unlikely it's albino, though; white bristleworm species are actually pretty common (though the white bristleworms we typically get in our tanks are tiny).

Anyway, most likely harmless/beneficial.

 

[Om84]

Agreed, bristleworm! CUC or not I hate seeing those things.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Agreed, bristleworm! CUC or not I hate seeing those things.

Me too

 

[exnisstech]

I love em. I can only imagine how much detritus would lay under my rocks rotting away if the bristle worms didn't live under them and consume it.