Tube Worms are beautiful to look at if you get the chance to really observe them. These worms are extremely sensitive to movement and will pull their plumage back into their protective tube in a split second if approached by a fish or diver.

You are able to find them in hard white tubes almost anywhere, attached to rocks, shells and wood within rock pools to warves down into the rocky reef areas.

Tubeworms are filter feeders and draw plankton to the mouth with the use of microscopic feather like bristles or tentacles.

I have to do some more research on this but as far as I know if a tentacle gets cut it will regenerate and grow again.

When they are found exposed out of the water they close their tube entrance as not to dry out.

Tubeworms I have seen in New Zealand vary in size from a few millimetres to about 50 millimetres. Though they can grow upto 10 feet or 3 metres in other parts of the world.

The body is often brightly coloured with reds, oranges, browns, and yellows.

Tubeworms secrete a mucus like substance to grow and repair the tubes this worm lives in.