What is this thing?
 

Anyone know what this is? It is a bad pick but I had to zoom way in and then try to clean it up. It is about 1/2" tall with Tenticles about an 1" long I can't tell if it is an animal or not. It seems to move but it could be the current. I
have a few of them as well as about 7 million feather dusters.
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/pic...&pictureid=865
This one is just because I love it!
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/pic...&pictureid=867
So is this!
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/pic...&pictureid=866

Wow, very nice!

Spaghetti worm is my guess..

Thanks I've got a few of them. They look sort of like tiny anemones. I assume they are filter feeders of some sort

I've seen these in his tank and I would struggle to say spaghetti worm. It's a fixed cluster of arms that seem to all center around on "ball" area just under the sand. He's right that the picture doesn't do it justice because there are a lot of arms there.

But you just described a spaghetti worm.. :)

http://images.google.com/images?q=sp...num=4&ct=title

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-06/rs/index.php

So that's my guess and I'm sticking with it for now! :lol:

There was a time you could actually buy these as sand dweeling janitors since they are pretty good at catching stray bits of food and detritus.

Haha...so I did!!!:lol:

My concept of a spaghetti worm was more like a traditional worm. I have them, but I've never seen more than 1 or 2 arms out near any one spot.

Learn something new every day on this site!

+1 I agree.

Omg!!! Why do you always have to tease us with this gorg??? Like seriously!! Is it photosynthetic? Usually photosynthetics are less colorful, but it looks very happy...!

If it is a spaggetti worm wouldn't it move. there are about 5 of these things in my tank and they never move. They don't contract or anything.
Myka, No it isn't photsynthetic I don't think. I feed it alot. Coral frenzy and blender leavings