If you or someone you know is creeped out by lil old bristleworms, get ready to take that dread up a notch. For the rest of you that are fascinated by the endless array of unusual creatures that spill forth from our reef aquaria, this video is for you. This 4″/10cm flatworm was discovered cruising an invertebrate aquarium at speeds up to 2ft/min. Although we tend to think of lower creatures as being slow and lethargic, as this video shows, flatworms can cruise away from rolling video cameras. The aquarium where this flatworm was found included no corals, just a lot of live sand and a few assorted invertebrates so it is unlikely that this creature is a harm to anything larger than a bacteria. As such, this fellow was released to cruise about the invertebrate aquarium and live for another day.
Flatworm Monster is the Roadrunner of creepy crawlies
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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