twisting the night away?

[sw_addicted]

Its late at night and I'm watching my tank again my attnics are still on and I see this little white thing just haulin @## across my tank. It propels itself by twisting like a corkscrew and looks like a white bristle worm with a light grey tail section. Well I caught it in a test vial, because in the tank photo just looked like a blur. I have a pic but dont know how to post so my avitar is the pic for a few days, its the best shot I can get. Should I keep this worm out of my display? What the heck is it? And can sombody explain how to post a pic? Please explain pic part like I am 3.

[sw_addicted]

sorry that avitar pic is not the best yhe worm is up by the cap on the glass.

[Montanareefer]

Well hard to say without a better pic! Great chance that is good for the reef and nothing to worry about!

When you start a thread or a reply go down to the Browse button and click on that and will bring you to your documents/My pictures and click on the pic there and then click on open and it will automatically transfer it to the thread.

[addict]

Like Johnny said,
Just click the 'Post Reply' button, and use the button in the picture I attached to this post to submit your photo (it has to be less than 100KB in size).

And as far as a specimen ID goes, I believe you've caught a Haulassius Corkscrewus, better know as the 'A$$-Hauling Corkscrew Worm'.
(Really, I have no clue without a better picture.)

[reefshadow]

Hi, Sw_Addicted-

What you have found is most probably the larval reproductive stage of some kind of polychaete, called an epitoke.
it could be from any number of polychaetes, some kind of bristleworm or even a feather duster. In all probability it is totally harmless anyway.

Good Luck!
-Becca

[reefshadow]

lol @ the Haulassius corkscrewus

[sw_addicted]

Thanks guys I figured out how to post a pic I think. I allready put the little guy back I'll try to catch him again later. Haulassius Corkscrewus that is funny.

[ReefLady]

What you have found is most probably the larval reproductive stage of some kind of polychaete, called an epitoke.

This was my first thought.

And as far as a specimen ID goes, I believe you've caught a Haulassius Corkscrewus, better know as the 'A$$-Hauling Corkscrew Worm'.

ROFL!!!!

There are actually 2 was to attach a pic - one being the way Johnny described, the other is --

Upload the pic to the >Photo Gallery< here. Then, once the pic is uploaded, go to the pic in the gallery (not the thumbnail, the full pic), right click on it to get it's http:// location -- this will begin with http:// -- and end with .jpg. Copy that whole line, and then, within your post, use the [img] tags, and insert http:// location line you copied above between the img tags.

So, from your gallery, if you put this line into a post

PHP Code:

[img]http://www.reefsanctuary.com/photopost/data/500/360head_on-med.jpg[/img] 


You will get this:



Using this method, you can insert multiple images into the same post. Using the "browse" (to your hard drive) method is simpler if the pic isn't already uploaded,but you can only attach one pic per post doing this.

HTH!!