Hair Worm?

JeffBoyRD · 10/26/2009, 08:45 PM

Last night I was just looking around my tank and noticed a piece of pellet food found its way underneath some live rock. As I watched it, I noticed some "hair worms" coming up through my thin layer of sand and moving it around. What is it and is it bad? Thanks.

hotrodolds · 10/26/2009, 09:41 PM

pinkish with white tuffs of "hair"?

JeffBoyRD · 10/27/2009, 05:38 AM

Thanks for the response. No. I should have been a little better in my description. The worms, if they are such, look like a human hair moving around up from the sand. There are hundreds, perhaps in the tank I don't know, but under the rock I saw at least a half dozen. At first I thought it was a hair, or a piece of algae moving in the current. But it definitely was moving around on its own accord and pushing the pellet around.

LeJeune981 · 05/20/2017, 01:02 AM

I have the same thing in my tank.. I'm trying to find out what they are also... Looks like a little white human hair.. No antenna.. No fluff on the ends.. Just a thread of worm

karimwassef · 05/20/2017, 07:38 AM

Spaghetti worms. Great little guys.

10/26/2009, 08:45 PM	#1
JeffBoyRD Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Dillsburg, PA Posts: 251	Hair Worm? Last night I was just looking around my tank and noticed a piece of pellet food found its way underneath some live rock. As I watched it, I noticed some "hair worms" coming up through my thin layer of sand and moving it around. What is it and is it bad? Thanks. __________________ JeffBoyRD Current Tank Info: Full of saltwater

10/26/2009, 09:41 PM	#2
hotrodolds Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Brandon, FL Posts: 600	pinkish with white tuffs of "hair"? __________________ 90g LPS reef. 2x250w lumatek ballasts/phoenix bulbed FNI pendents. 2 K1s 2 MJ1200s. Sumpless, no supps. Current Tank Info: 29g finished cycle 1/18/09. 2 K1s, FNI 150wMH Occ. Clown, LPS, and a monti cap.

10/27/2009, 05:38 AM	#3
JeffBoyRD Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Dillsburg, PA Posts: 251	Thanks for the response. No. I should have been a little better in my description. The worms, if they are such, look like a human hair moving around up from the sand. There are hundreds, perhaps in the tank I don't know, but under the rock I saw at least a half dozen. At first I thought it was a hair, or a piece of algae moving in the current. But it definitely was moving around on its own accord and pushing the pellet around. __________________ JeffBoyRD Current Tank Info: Full of saltwater

05/20/2017, 07:38 AM	#5
karimwassef Registered Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 11,033	Spaghetti worms. Great little guys. __________________ Failure isn't an option It's a requirement. 660g 380inwall+280smp/surge S/L/Soft/Maxima/RBTA/Clown/Chromis/Anthias/Tang/Mandarin/Jawfish/Goby/Wrasse/D'back. DIY 12' Skimmer ActuatedSurge ConcreteScape

05/20/2017, 01:02 AM	#4
LeJeune981 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 747	I have the same thing in my tank.. I'm trying to find out what they are also... Looks like a little white human hair.. No antenna.. No fluff on the ends.. Just a thread of worm