ACBlinky
Premium Member
Sorry there are no pictures, but you all know what worms look like anyway 
This one had a rounder profile than a bristleworm, but was still slightly flattened, was a uniform bright red, and looked to have a circular mouth but I didn't look terribly close (I was really creeped out).
My GSP has been slowly disappearing, and one day a while back I noticed this bright red worm poking its head out of a rock at feeding time. This happened again a week later, and I started thinking -- if it's so interested in the smell of frozen food, I wonder if the worm (which always stuck its head out of the same hole) lives in that rock and waits for something meaty to come by... and if it's hungry, maybe it's munching that nearby coral?
Well it must have been REALLY hungry today, because it crawled WAY out of its hole when I fed the corals their frozen treats. Once I saw it was over 6" long, I realized this beast just had to go.
I ran, grabbed tweezers and a cup, and dove in. I tweezed the worm close to its middle, where it was coming out of the hole, and started to pull. It tried to retract, but as I had it by the middle, there was really nowhere for it to go. I yanked, and it slid out of its hole fairly easily but it was bigger than I thought. The whole thing was about 10" long, it was unpleasantly large; I can handle 3" bristleworms, but this thing... just no. I've seen the threads where people pull out predatory worms measuring three, four, even six FEET long, no way was that going to happen in my tank, I'd never sleep knowing it was in there!
So the 10" nasty worm went straight down the toilet. Maybe now the GSP will grow back, or maybe it won't, but I think I'm going to sleep a little better knowing it's gone. *shudder*
This one had a rounder profile than a bristleworm, but was still slightly flattened, was a uniform bright red, and looked to have a circular mouth but I didn't look terribly close (I was really creeped out).My GSP has been slowly disappearing, and one day a while back I noticed this bright red worm poking its head out of a rock at feeding time. This happened again a week later, and I started thinking -- if it's so interested in the smell of frozen food, I wonder if the worm (which always stuck its head out of the same hole) lives in that rock and waits for something meaty to come by... and if it's hungry, maybe it's munching that nearby coral?
Well it must have been REALLY hungry today, because it crawled WAY out of its hole when I fed the corals their frozen treats. Once I saw it was over 6" long, I realized this beast just had to go.
I ran, grabbed tweezers and a cup, and dove in. I tweezed the worm close to its middle, where it was coming out of the hole, and started to pull. It tried to retract, but as I had it by the middle, there was really nowhere for it to go. I yanked, and it slid out of its hole fairly easily but it was bigger than I thought. The whole thing was about 10" long, it was unpleasantly large; I can handle 3" bristleworms, but this thing... just no. I've seen the threads where people pull out predatory worms measuring three, four, even six FEET long, no way was that going to happen in my tank, I'd never sleep knowing it was in there!
So the 10" nasty worm went straight down the toilet. Maybe now the GSP will grow back, or maybe it won't, but I think I'm going to sleep a little better knowing it's gone. *shudder*
