Light producing Tube worm???

[gloo]

Hello folks,

The other night I saw something very amazing. With only the blue LEDs on, I was watching my cleaner shrimp go after a dry pellet that had fallen between the crevices of the LR, and saw a faint 'glow' of white light coming from a shaded area. I looked behind me to check to see if there was anything that could have reflected off the glass, but did not find anything near by.
I kept my eyes on the same spot as the shrimp was still agitating the same area, and saw the light again.

At first it seemed to glow faintly, then it got fairly bright and faded out, as if to try to scare the shrimp away. The light looked like a very faint LED bulb that slowly turned on, in a white light.

I'll post some pics of what I believe to have phosphoressed (sp?), but it looks like a tube worm with strands of shiny almost fiberglass looking strands that poke out in a ray pattern out of its opening.

Any one know what the hell this might be?

 

[NaH2O]

Hmmm - very interesting. I'll have to look around to see if I can find any info on biolumenscing tube worms. Any chance it resembled this? Ophiuroid Luminescence for Studying Microevolution

 

[gloo]

mmm, I do have bristlestars, but they are the kind that everyone seems to have ( tiny , black and white striping on legs, splits like mad). I will definately post pics once I return home.

 

[gloo]

My camera did not take macro shots too well. I attempted to agitate the suspect with turkey baster and a shish-kabob stick in the dark, but couldn't get it to illuminate.

http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=EP00879383A2&hid=36#GDESC

mentions a bio-lumenescent polychaete, aren't tube worms polychaetes as well?

 

[gloo]

Some more mentions of worms but the link to the pic did not resolve for me.

http://bmbiris.bmb.uga.edu/wampler/biolum/#index


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