What on Earth is this???

[littlefoxx]

Moved my feather duster today, he got knocked over. Dug a small little sand hole for him. I moved a clump of sand and when I looked closer this thing was in it!!!! What is it? Ive got it in a cup of tank water cause I dont know if its good or bad

 

[FernFish]

Bump

 

[bradleym]

Doesn't look familiar. Can you take a picture of it in some water? Does it move? Is it soft or hard?

 

[Tired]

A picture in the water would help, yeah. Tentative guess is some sort of worm, scrunched up due to being out of the water.

I'm not sure your feather duster will want to be buried.

 

[littlefoxx]

Um well its kinda soft but it looks the same in water. Its got this weird fringe stuff that moves, but it doesnt move much

 

[littlefoxx]

A picture in the water would help, yeah. Tentative guess is some sort of worm, scrunched up due to being out of the water.

I'm not sure your feather duster will want to be buried.

This is my first one, I read that they like to have a hole in the sand and then chill there. Is that not right? I want the little dude to thrive

 

[Tired]

Interesting. Looks like a chiton or scale worm, but those would probably be a different texture.

Leave it alone for a little while and see if it extends, unfurls, or otherwise moves around.

What kind of feather duster? The ones I'm familiar with generally build tubes /on/ things, not under the sand.

 

[bradleym]

I'm starting to think it's the tube worm. Definitely looks like a big worm, and feather duster/tube worms will occasionally lose their feathers if they are unhealthy. It's either that or another random giant worm, lol.

 

[bradleym]

Check this out, and imagine if your thing was stretched out longer:

 

[JoJosReef]

Did a hissing cockroach fall into your tank?

This is a first for me, following to learn.

 

[littlefoxx]

Did a hissing cockroach fall into your tank?

This is a first for me, following to learn.

Lol no my first thought was roach, but Im in colorado and we dont have hissing roaches thank god

 

[littlefoxx]

Interesting. Looks like a chiton or scale worm, but those would probably be a different texture.

Leave it alone for a little while and see if it extends, unfurls, or otherwise moves around.

What kind of feather duster? The ones I'm familiar with generally build tubes /on/ things, not under the sand.

Its a Hawaiian feather duster. Got a tube but it came to me without anything attached

 

[littlefoxx]

Check this out, and imagine if your thing was stretched out longer:

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what the heck is that

 

[bradleym]

what the heck is that

It's a feather duster worm that's been taken out of the tube.

 

[littlefoxx]

It's a feather duster worm that's been taken out of the tube.

Oh. Well my feather duster is fully extended and just fine in the tub, unless it had another in the same tub?

 

[littlefoxx]

Oh. Well my feather duster is fully extended and just fine in the tub, unless it had another in the same tub?

Tube**

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Um well its kinda soft but it looks the same in water. Its got this weird fringe stuff that moves, but it doesnt move much

Look up scale worm

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Im kind of leaning towards a sea cockroach did you by chance use live sand when starting your tank?

 

[littlefoxx]

Im kind of leaning towards a sea cockroach did you by chance use live sand when starting your tank?

I used carib sea sand, been up since November of last year

 

[littlefoxx]

Look up scale worm

Yeah it doesnt look anything like that