Help identify a hitchiker

[Larry Grenier]

Sorry I didn't get a picture.  I was moving sand from my old PITA acrylic tank to my new 75 and I scooped-up a big fat wormlike creature.  It lived in the sand and didn't have bristles like a big bristle worm.  It is light grey-tan colored.  When contracted, it was maybe 4" and part was as think as my pinky-finger.  It could elongate and thin-out to apparantly burrow into the sand.  Maybe a cuke of some-kind?

[michaelg]

Sounds like a worm of some sort.  Shimek would be the one with a positive ID if you sent it to him.  When I broke down my sandbed in Houston, there were several monster worms in there, that I otherwise never saw.  One was over 2 feet (in a 40 hex no less) though rather thin.  Freaky the things we are unaware of dwelling in our reefs.

[Larry Grenier]

Thanks for the reply Mike.  2'! Good grief!  I guess if one of my dogs disappears I know where to look  :p   At first it didn't look alive but it started to move.  I put it in my tank and it dug in.  I feel pretty sure he's a good-guy inhabitant.