Has anyone ever seen this before?

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Brenden

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Has anyone ever seen this before? I was looking in the tank and seen this crawling next to the side. What is it.
 
Yup - polychaete bristleworm.

Left alone they are good scavengers - good addition to the clean-up crew. If you decide to remove it be careful, they do have little jaws and can nip.
 
Not usually a bad type of bristleworm, can be a pest to corals/anemones though. I would keep it.
 
I figured it was. It just did not look like any of the other bristle worms I have seen in my tank. The picture does not do it justice on how bright the yellow was.
 
It's a species of Eunicid worm. Look on some back issues of Reefkeeping.com, you'll find a more possitive ID there.

Cheers
Steve
 
I'm fairly certain it's a yellow-green squiqly thing, but I could be wrong :lol:
 
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