monster in my tank?

[TriggerHappy]

I was recently cleaning my tank and I lifted a big piece of liverock and underneath it was a creature that looks like a millipede which quickly ducked under the crushed coral and I havent seen it since. Then again, I havent lifted that rock up since then. Any idea what it might be. I will try to get a pic up, but am afraid of lifting the rock back up, call me a woos!!

 

[Electrobes]

umm.. did you say milipede.. how thick was it.. its either a bristle worm or worse... much worse.. a mantis shrimp 8O

 

[TriggerHappy]

it looked like it was about 2-3 inches long, white-ish with a LOTTA legs. I only had a glimpse of it b4 it dissapeard into the abyss (under the CC) but it was w e i r d lookin...i just saw some pics of bristles and it didnt look like that....hmmm.

 

[Electrobes]

loo up mantis shrimp.. I sincerly hope you do not have this little but monstrous beast of a lifeform

 

[kreach]

I'm thinking bristleworm... here's a pic for reference...

 

[kreach]

Ooops... I attached the wrong pic...

 

[Electrobes]

that looks more like a fireworm... which would be bad

 

[kreach]

Aren't fireworms a type of bristleworm?

 

[ImLookinForNemo]

If you have a trigger in your tank that's pretty good sized, he would likely eat the mantis, or so I have been told.

 

[ImLookinForNemo]

(If it is a mantis i mean)

 

[cj10488]

Here is a pic of my Monster Bristle worm.. I found this while moving some LR around.. I have since found another but have not been able to get him.. He wass about 14-18" long and about 1/2" thick.. I gave him away to the person that got my mantis shrimp..


Enjoy..
James

 

[TriggerHappy]

Interesting, I do have a trigger in there, and I have not seen the bristleworm, if that is what it is, since I last moved the rock around. Oh well...I guess it's a natural thing for them to develop in the tank...