Anyone Want?

[fooser]

Just finished double bagging a ~2.5 foot eunicid worm in some clear bags. Anyone want the little monster for whatever reason? haha

[lastlight]

Any pics or video?

[fooser]

I wish i thought of making a video of it cause while i was attempting to get it out my fiance wanted to watch, she could have made a video for me! It took about 40 seconds to catch him and get him in the bag without dropping a drop of water. Went alot smoother than I had planned.

We did get some pictures of it though while it was in the bag freaking out. I will post them when i upload the pictures. I just dont know what to do wiht the bugger, i dont have a tank for it.

[torrid_07]

how the heck do you get things like this in your tank ?!

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by fooser

I just dont know what to do wiht the bugger, i dont have a tank for it.

[fooser]

Originally Posted by torrid_07

how the heck do you get things like this in your tank ?!

I am not sure, i havent gotten any rock for a long time. Any rock i have gotten within the last year and half was small shelf rock that i boiled in hot water and let sit dry for 2 weeks before use. This thing must have been in my first peice of liverock i ever bought as it is the only piece i have that i did not treat and it is coincidentally the largest pece i have in my tank and is the foundation base rock. It is also the rock the work was living in.
Oh and I accidentally found a second smaller eunicid that is about 1 foot long while i had pulled another piece of liverock out and had it sitting out on my table, it was trying to crawl out of the rock probably because it was not happy out of the water.
I sure hope that was the last one though. I only took out about 20% of my rock to get the big one, so there is 80% more rock that could be housing other worms.

[fooser]

Originally Posted by Snaz

haha i think if i wanted it dead, i could just let it dry up or leave it in the bag it was in and he would run out of air or kill himself in his own ammonia buildup.

but flame thrower method could be a little more exciting !

[untamed]

Was there a specific reason that you had to catch it? Obviously, it had been there for some time before you noticed. I would take him off your hands, but without knowing for sure what species I was getting it would probably be asking for trouble.

I had one for many years that was a vegetarian. He was a pretty useful resident, as long as you could get past his looks.

I think most of them are opportunistic detrivores.

[fooser]

The reason I took him out was because he was eating my reef.
At first it was kind of slow damage so i was going to wait until I moved at the end of the year to get him, but then lately he has been getting really brave at night (maybe because he is getting big and he is totally unopposed). He has been coming out while I am actually standing there (which he never use to do as he would flee the moment it thoguth i was near) and would munch on my SPS. After he took out 3 in about 2 weeks and then my wrasse disapeared, I was fed up and took him out.
So if you were planning to put this in a reef or anything besides a tank for just the worm, I would NOT recomend it.
Oh, but he did not bother my zoas, just SPS. Strange bugger.

[argan]

i had a smallish one, about 5 inches, hopefully he has not grown too much because they are cool looking.

Was yours hard to get out of the rock? did you have to chisel in after him?