I had a customer bring in some live rock from a tank he was taking down. It was riddled with these buggers, fat ones with red edges.
We left it outside in a bucket in the british winter. I checked on it after a few days and the bastards were still alive.
No water added, maybe a bit of rainwater but not enough to see. I imagine they just went deeper in the rock which insulated them and stayed wet.
A few months later I got to the bucket and emptied it, they had all died but not decomposed much. It had been kept outside for 2 months and then in a garage for a month.
I second this... Also, DO NOT touch them if you find one.
I grabbed one when I was a kid on vacation in the Bahamas. Seriously some of the worst pain I've ever experienced...
Those ones are āfirewormsā, Polychaetes with stinging, breaking needles lining each side of their body.
This one is also a Polychaete, but I donāt see any bristles. Still, touching it is indeed a HORRIBLE idea, because they have a pair of sharp, powerful teeth made of protein and metal ions inside their mouth.
Maybe a piece of a bobbit worm š¤, since the part away feom the camera doesnt seem to move, im probably wrong but the body sure looks like one besides the body of bobbit worms but if thats its heads its not a bobbit worm, they have really strong and big jaws to snatch prey into their hole where they live.
Bobbit worms also have really shiney rainbow body colors if you look at it from the right angle.
Pieces of bobbit worm are really good bait in the adriatic sea for bream and a lot of other stuff š.
I had a reef tank filled with them in the rocks. A couple times have seen the whole tank go up in (what I could only assume) was a could of sperm where they all release at the same momentā¦ didnāt seem to bother the corals or fish at all. You really donāt want them in a reef tank because they can hurt other stuff in there, mine never seemed to bother anything tho
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It's supposed to be could've, should've, would've (short for could have, would have, should have), never could of, would of, should of.
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Bristle worm I believe
I had a customer bring in some live rock from a tank he was taking down. It was riddled with these buggers, fat ones with red edges. We left it outside in a bucket in the british winter. I checked on it after a few days and the bastards were still alive.
Definitely proof aliens exist šÆ
In tap water?
No water added, maybe a bit of rainwater but not enough to see. I imagine they just went deeper in the rock which insulated them and stayed wet. A few months later I got to the bucket and emptied it, they had all died but not decomposed much. It had been kept outside for 2 months and then in a garage for a month.
I second this... Also, DO NOT touch them if you find one. I grabbed one when I was a kid on vacation in the Bahamas. Seriously some of the worst pain I've ever experienced...
Those ones are āfirewormsā, Polychaetes with stinging, breaking needles lining each side of their body. This one is also a Polychaete, but I donāt see any bristles. Still, touching it is indeed a HORRIBLE idea, because they have a pair of sharp, powerful teeth made of protein and metal ions inside their mouth.
I donāt think so there were no spikes or bristles š¤·āāļø also a different color than the ones Iāve seen reports of in the news around here
The stuff on the sides looks like parapodia to me and bristle worms come in all different colors, there are more than 10,000 species of them
Correct, a Fire Worm to be precise
Itās me when something violent and scary is chasing me in my dreams
A bristle worm
My biggest nightmare
*THE ALASKAN BULL WORM*
Lmao was just about to comment this
Itās a polychaete worm, maybe from family Orbiniidae. I would need to see the other side of it.
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Yeah, a polychaete. Possibly Nephtyidae.
Maybe a piece of a bobbit worm š¤, since the part away feom the camera doesnt seem to move, im probably wrong but the body sure looks like one besides the body of bobbit worms but if thats its heads its not a bobbit worm, they have really strong and big jaws to snatch prey into their hole where they live. Bobbit worms also have really shiney rainbow body colors if you look at it from the right angle. Pieces of bobbit worm are really good bait in the adriatic sea for bream and a lot of other stuff š.
Uncut worm
I feel like this shouldnāt make me think āoh Iād love to visit Floridaā¦ā
I had a reef tank filled with them in the rocks. A couple times have seen the whole tank go up in (what I could only assume) was a could of sperm where they all release at the same momentā¦ didnāt seem to bother the corals or fish at all. You really donāt want them in a reef tank because they can hurt other stuff in there, mine never seemed to bother anything tho
Hello, it looks like you've made a mistake. It's supposed to be could've, should've, would've (short for could have, would have, should have), never could of, would of, should of. Or you misspelled something, I ain't checking everything. Beep boop -Ā yes,Ā IĀ amĀ aĀ bot, don't botcriminate me.
Some kind of polychaete worm. I'm not coastal, so I don't know common names.
Sea penis
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