Interesting Hitchhiker any idea?

[poidog]

Came in with some chaeto. It's about as long as my pinky finger nail and is a fast little swimmer. Any idea? Keep it or flush it?

 

[FishBeard]

Looks like a vermetid that hasn't built a tube yet, I'd flush.

 

[rattyE36]

sell it to a niche seafood place!

 

[poidog]

vermetid are worms right? This guy has little feed like a pod or centipede.

 

[FishBeard]

Vermetid are the ones that make tubes with trap doors and spew those spiderweb like nets all over your rock and corals as a means of filter feeding.

 

[poidog]

Right. But if it has legs it wouldnt be a worm then, right?

 

[Smitty]

Looks like some sort of larvae to me...hopefully not a mantis shrimp.

 

[poidog]

Not a larva. Definetly has an exoskeleton.

 

[Cubbies]

Eat it! J/k. . . no idea. Interesting though. . .

 

[OldTownJoe]

Tanaid. Harmless.

 

[poidog]

Tanaid. Harmless.

Yep, that's it! Excellent first post!! Welcome!

 

[BADGUS]

Good find,so do you work at Old town aquarium joe?

 

[OldTownJoe]

Good find,so do you work at Old town aquarium joe?

Yeah, they pay me to keep all the rare fishes alive.
It's a fun job, but someone's got to do it.

 

[scotty]

i just read that diddy, and they look like lawn pluggers of your sand, very cool. Hopefully you have more than him, get that water flowing through that sand!