jacob.morgan78
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Wow... I would just have to prey that my wife never saw it...
Big Fat Worm. Is it good?
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scionreefing
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Put it in your Fuge or make a species tank for it. My buddy had a eunicid worm in his Fuge along with a red mantis shrimp and they play just fine.
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The Escaped Ape
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Wow, that's a fuge of evil. :lmao:
Probably fascinating to look at, but I think it would give my wife nightmares if I ran something like that.
scionreefing
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The worm is 2ft long and its. Named dread loc cause it looked like my dread locs.
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atreis
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He's still around: Check out MarineDepot's forums.
Bristleworms are generally good for the tank, bad for the aquarist that gets stung by them. I'd leave it in, but be careful while moving rocks and such around.
BTW - some varieties can get Quite Huge. They're still not harmful for the tank, but seriously gross...
Thanks for all replies.
At night i found some worm peeking out of the rock. Well although i do not know what type of worm it is, it definitely has bristles and looks a little bit different from the one above. I am definitely not touching that one.
The one above does not seem to have any bristles. Do bristle worms always sting if you touch them? Because i did and nothing happen. Does it means that it is not a bristle worm?
At night i found some worm peeking out of the rock. Well although i do not know what type of worm it is, it definitely has bristles and looks a little bit different from the one above. I am definitely not touching that one.
The one above does not seem to have any bristles. Do bristle worms always sting if you touch them? Because i did and nothing happen. Does it means that it is not a bristle worm?
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slapshot
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Looks like a bobbit worm to me. I had a 5 footer in my tank. They eat anything including corals. Kill it and get rid of it. You dint want that thing in your tank. How did you catch it? They are very difficult to catch. If you break it you will have two.
BTW if you wonder about the name it is because they eat the testicles off of males after mating. Nice worm aye!
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BTW if you wonder about the name it is because they eat the testicles off of males after mating. Nice worm aye!
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Damn. But i do not think it is that worm. I just goggled some pictures online and it looks nothing like the worm i have. So it is not bobbit worm. But thanks for the reply At least i know what to search for.
walkerbrody
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Looks like a large polychaete worm to me. These can cause problems when they get big. I see no benefit to keeping him in a reef tank. I wouldn't chance it.
scionreefing
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I have seen worms like this. Does it appear to have eyes? And does it have 5 tentacle protrusions on its head if it doesn't its not a nonvoting worm. Look up cat worm or something like that.
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Nope. No tentacles. at all
shrimphead
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Does it look like this (not my picture)? this is a fulgida worm, which is what someone else mentioned it could be. I had one in my tank a while back. Just spent alot of money on a coco worm when i woke up the next day and saw it's tube was empty apart from a load of slime that was all over the tube.
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Actually yes. Looks like this is it. Are you certain it is fulgida worm?
Mnofstl007
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Kill it imo... anything that ugly must die if it enters my tank... i have standards.
shrimphead
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not certain but what makes me think is the same as the one I had is it has that same dirty orange colour also it looks quite a floppy worm/not a very rigid worm, head shape looks the same?. not very good things to use as identification really but I suspect it could be the same worm. also fulgida's are surposed to be quite slimey
Oh come on!. Why would you say its ugly. It is different. :hmm5:
scionreefing
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Cmon Yall. Just put it in your fuge already.
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