[Future]

Can anyone give me a better ID for this? All I can find online is about a gold tipped toadstool, but this looks to have a greenish tint on the tips...

[charlie]

To tell you the truth, it is gonna be real hard to tell until the little guy grows up. Maybe your lighting is different from what it was under before. Where did you get it at????? Sometimes getting an ID on softies is worse than getting an ID on sps frags.

[Future]

I got them from an online fragger/friend. He doesn't know what kind it is other than what he calls a normal toadstool.

I noticed this morning that my larger toadstool went up a level on the rocks, finding it rather odd that one could move I began thinking of what I remember seeing in my tank lately and last new thing I've seen was a reddish tinted bristleworm that I thought nothing of. So.... I'm guessing it's safe to conclude I have a fireworm. It makes sense because I lost 98% of my Zoa colonies and now a 3 inch toadstool magically climbed rock WITH it's frag square.

Anyone want to lend me a wrasse for a week or two?..ha ha ha ha

[Future]

Here's a pic of the fireworm

[charlie]

That ought to be a fairly easy thing to trap.

[zhenya]

That little thing couldn't move three grains of sand stuck together, never mind the frag plug. More often than not these worms get the blame for everything that is going on in the tank. It looks like a regular bristle worm, Eurythoe complanata to me, and these type of worms wouldn't attack anything that is still alive. Dead and dying is another matter, hence why they make excellent memebr of clean up crew.
Fireworms that would eat your corals would be the dreaded Caribbean species, Hermodice carrunculata, or some really large species of Eunice sp. worms.

[Future]

Something mover the toad up a whole level of rock, and it wasn't water flow because that's fairly mild.
That worm isn't so small either it's at least 9 inches long.

Any ideas what might be going on here then?

[rjs5134]

I have dozens of them in my 65 gallon, from tiny to 6+" long. Not one frag has been moved, not significantly anyway. Not even a bare ricordia.

[Future]

Just got home and yet another small rubble rock with a few RDE's was moved. This is beginning to worry me now because Nothing I know of in my tank is strong enough to move these things. The wife doesn't do anything and there is nobody else in the house.

Unless maybe my yellow tail damsel is strong enough, but I can't see the damsel bugging things this much.

[Future]

Originally Posted by zhenya

That little thing couldn't move three grains of sand stuck together, never mind the frag plug. More often than not these worms get the blame for everything that is going on in the tank. It looks like a regular bristle worm, Eurythoe complanata to me, and these type of worms wouldn't attack anything that is still alive. Dead and dying is another matter, hence why they make excellent memebr of clean up crew.
Fireworms that would eat your corals would be the dreaded Caribbean species, Hermodice carrunculata, or some really large species of Eunice sp. worms.

So then it's possible that "Vile Beast" (a.k.a. Goliath as the wife calls it) is still in my tank? VB is that massive bristle I spoke of a while ago and I figured I took care of.