FINALLY! Working, effective Fulgida worm trap!

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not know what to say I am so happy. I found this thread like a week ago once I figured out what kind of worm I had and I instantly went to home depot to get the materials. When I saw your trap I immediately thought that it made perfect sense and I had total faith in it. So the first night I stuck it in I used a little bit of fish food and not a single hit. The second and third night I used mysis shrimp and still no hit. I did not let it faze me though. I just though that I needed to get some scallops and that I would do it this weekend. Then tonight I was looking in my aquarium and I noticed the infamous jelly substance people talk about seeing left behind from this worms killings. I took a closer look with a red flash light and sure enough that little turd was eating one of my snails. I was T.O.'d. I grabbed some tweezers and took a few shots at him but it was like me trying to hit a professional boxer. He is the quickest thing I have ever seen. So just before I gave up I decided to make one last ditch effort. I grabbed your trap that I made and placed the half eaten snail inside and I sucked up the jelly and squirted it inside the hole on the trap. Now I don't know if the jelly helped or he just smelled the snail but he immediately went inside. I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The problem was I had failed every attempt to catch him before that I was afraid to pull the fishing line. I just kept saying to myself "if he crawls in a little bit more, ok now a little bit more" then out of no where this stupid hermit crab comes bounding over and it was like slow motion. I was like "NOoooooooo!" and then he stepped right on him and he shot out of the tube and back under the rock faster than light. I thought to myself, "that was it, I blew my one shot". But I knew if he did it once he would do it again and after about 5 minutes he made his way back in. This time no crab and he quickly crawled about half way in and I yanked. SUCCESS!!! He pulled right out from the rock and out of my tank forever. I cannot thank you enough. This truly is an effective worm catcher. Pictures to follow.
 
You will notice on my picture with the trap there is a pvc pipe that is perpendicular to the trap pipe. That is just one I used as a handle so that when I jerked up on the fishing line I could grab it to keep tension on the line as i pulled it out and to help not hit any of my corals when I jerked it up. It worked really well and I suggest it. Also in the first picture you can see some of the "jelly" released by the worm. Video can be found here at the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsVzJvgRzI
 

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Always is a really strong word. :)

The worm I caught in my tank was pretty easy to catch because he was all the way out of a rock. Perhaps he had no food within reach and had to get out and about, leaving his rock behind. When I went after him, he tried to go up under a rock, but the tweezers were able to get him before he could find a suitable hole to go into. That leads me to believe that he had ventured pretty far from his preferred hole. I guess I got lucky on it.

It does happen from time to time, but dont count on you being able to catch them out of there hole very often. In 18 months I have seen 1 all the way out of its hole.
 
Mscarpena or jmcaz7 one of you should condense all of this into a really nice article. I know you have been fighting off these predators for a good long time now and it would be nice to have your wisdom and experience preserved.
 
Thanks for the post, your trap worked great!!!!!

Got 8 over 3 nites

Amazing that I pulled so many of those ugly critters out of my tank. Really explains a lot.

Thanks again.
 
How are you all getting these worms in your systems? Also, specific locale for these worms also? I.e. Gulf rock vs fiji rock.
 
Ewwww. Good call on the handle...wouldn't want to get my hands near that thing. If you cut one end off, will it regenerate the other half? Just curious...
 
Yes they will regenerate.

Yes, they regenerate.

That being said, their slimeness works against them. The fishing line grabs them pretty tight but doesn't cut them in two thanks to the nylon. They're too slimy to keep anchored in the rock and usually come right out without too much fuss.

I haven't check this thread in a while. I'm glad so many people found this useful.
 
Thank you.

I have made multiple traps and this is the first that really worked and I got 3 in the first hour last night after placing three traps, Going for more tonight.



Also I made 4 traps 2 are 1"pvc @ 6" and 14" and the other 2 are 3/4"pvc @ 6" and 12"

And I used fresh scallops as bait.
 
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