4 ft bristle worm

[subsailor]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html

[dmweise]

That is disgusting. Yet another reason for me to toss out those suckers when I find them in my tank.

[LoneStar]

I show your 4' and raise you another 2'

http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_worm.htm

[DSAfanatic]

Barry kinda looks like one of those worms from the 90s movie Tremors

[QuickSilver525]

thats really scarry and gross just imagine waking up to that crawling out of your tank :/ eww screw that lol

[alliedag85]

wow....thats all i got lol

[Agent Jones]

nasty

[rabadanmarco]

good lord......i do the same when i find bristle worms....trash them right away

[Squiers007]

That is pretty amazing if you ask me, just think how long the thing has been in there to get that huge!

[Europhyllia]

Wow those were amazing -and scary

[justahobby]

I'm Hungry for Spaghetti

[UTSAltwaterEnthusiast]

Wow i only wonder how big they can get in the wild...

[Mr Cob]

crazy and disgusting!

[tzhanks]

If I found that I would start a new tank just for it. Any one know what the longest ever found was?

[SoLiD]

good lord......i do the same when i find bristle worms....trash them right away


thats really scarry and gross just imagine waking up to that crawling out of your tank :/ eww screw that lol


That is disgusting. Yet another reason for me to toss out those suckers when I find them in my tank.


Wow i only wonder how big they can get in the wild...


If I found that I would start a new tank just for it. Any one know what the longest ever found was?

You guys are funny. Those probably aren't the common Palola genus type bristle worms that we see in most of our display tanks and refugiums. It could be lysaretid polychaete Oenone fulgida worm but i doubt it. Those 2 are probably the bristle worm's bigger cousin which belong to the Eunice genus. They are also known as bobbit worms and eunicid worms. In the wild they have been confirmed to reach 50 feet long. :wink_smile:

[justahobby]

....... In the wild they have been confirmed to reach 50 feet long. :wink_smile:

50.... I just threw up in my mouth a little. :sick:
That's why I wear shoes when I'm in the ocean... that and stingrays.