Scale worm ID?
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reefsmoker
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looks more like a cucumber to me.
reefsmoker
Member
No problem at all, hopefully someone else will chime in and confirm or prove me wrong....either way i hope to help 
As for the second part is it safe? let's just say i wouldn't have one in my tank, I've " heard " of them nuking tanks if the die, apparently the can release some pretty potent toxins.
As for the second part is it safe? let's just say i wouldn't have one in my tank, I've " heard " of them nuking tanks if the die, apparently the can release some pretty potent toxins.
Rhodes19
Active Member
No problem at all, hopefully someone else will chime in and confirm or prove me wrong....either way i hope to help
As for the second part is it safe? let's just say i wouldn't have one in my tank, I've " heard " of them nuking tanks if the die, apparently the can release some pretty potent toxins.
No nuking in this tank allowed. Its only 29 g.
cbrownfish
Well-Known Member
I would speculate that it is a cuke also. What is the total length of this animal?
Rhodes19
Active Member
Hi cbrownfish,
In this picture its about and inch long. I have seen him about 2" long but he was a lot skinnier.
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
Jeremy is correct that is 100 % a cucumber. Remember something, cucumbers, like other animals are not born full grown or 1/2 full grown . They do not emerge from a egg like a chicken which is large we will say but grow from a trochophore larvae, which is not much bigger than a copepod. They then emerge into a baby sea cucumber.
. They do not emerge from a egg like a chicken which is large we will say but grow from a trochophore larvae, which is not much bigger than a copepod. They then emerge into a baby sea cucumber.
Rhodes19
Active Member
Hi Boomer, Thanks. Should I leave him in the tank or should I get rid of him?
Oh, I like your tag line:
"An explosion can be defined as a loud noise, accompanied by the sudden going away of things, from a place where they use to be".
I got to be the cause of a few explosions when I was with a Combat Engineer Battalion when I was in the Army, so many years ago. Can you say Fun!!!?
Oh, I like your tag line:
"An explosion can be defined as a loud noise, accompanied by the sudden going away of things, from a place where they use to be".
I got to be the cause of a few explosions when I was with a Combat Engineer Battalion when I was in the Army, so many years ago. Can you say Fun!!!?
Rhodes19
Active Member
No, no,no keep him they are good from tanks.
Yes fun for sure
Thanks Boomer.
Dual prime!