worm with a red body and white head?

[bwhit1406]

this guy was hauling butt all around my fuge this morning. I have never seen him before, he is a very fast swimmer. He also has a red line that streaks up his white head sorry for the crappy pics

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[BigAl07]

Hard to say but looks like a Bristle Worm. Try googling that and see if you find something that matches your picture.

 

[shelby522002]

Hard to say but looks like a Bristle Worm. Try googling that and see if you find something that matches your picture.

But I thought bristle worms had legs...I was thinking along the lines of a peanut worm.

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

+1 Allen's id

have to look hard at bwhit1406 pic to see the little legs...

 

[shelby522002]

But I thought bristle worms had legs...I was thinking along the lines of a peanut worm.

That is as close as I can get...but that doesn't really look like it.

 

[bwhit1406]

do bristle worms swim at full speed through the water column? These guy was darting all over the tank. It has two black dots at the head end.

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

do bristle worms swim at full speed through the water column?

wow - what was propelling him?

 

[shelby522002]

ribbon worms

 

[shelby522002]

I am just throwing out ideas...lol

 

[shelby522002]

The aquatic earthworm also belongs to Annelida and is segmented like a leech. There are more than 200 species of aquatic earthworm in North America. Many species look like the terrestrial earthworm, but many also have hairs or bristles on their tail for swimming. Most feed on the bottom muck but some are predacious. I haven't found these in trout feeding samples in our lakes but they would digest very quickly and be hard to identify.
They also live in saltwater...I give up

 

[Reefmack]

That "free swimming" in the water column sounds very "leech-like", not at all like the bottom dwelling bristleworms I have. Hard to tell from the picture what it is, but the behavior doesn't sound like a bristleworm, unless I've missed seeing mine swimming around at night.