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SAME. HAHA!Dang it! I clicked on it. Never gonna sleep again...
Most holes in the rocks are connected so covering one won’t help or keep them in. Think of it like a maze. Next time you see it…most likely at night take a pair of tweezers and try to remove it.So i put coral glue/mold on the hole and hoped that would solve it but of course i could see it crawl in the rock in another little hole on the side and im pretty sure it has built a wall in there.
Oh no - appears to be a bobbit worm and it MUST come out . Set a simple trap with a 1 0r 2 liter bottle baited with shrimp or krill and freeze or other method to end itNeed help identifying this creepy thing hiding in live rock.
Extremely unlikely for it to be a bobbit, those are vanishingly rare in the hobby at this point. There are way more species of eunicid, most of which are scavengers and grazers, than just the bobbits.Oh no - appears to be a bobbit worm and it MUST come out . Set a simple trap with a 1 0r 2 liter bottle baited with shrimp or krill and freeze or other method to end it
"Pull" the rock means pulling it completely out of the tank. Squirting RODI water into that hole (with the rock out of the water) would probably make it come out. Wear gloves to handle the rock, and figure out how you're going to humanely kill the worm; it didn't ask to be here. Plonking it in a saltwater cup in the fridge until it goes insensate, then into the freezer, should be OK if you don't have any clove oil to cleanly euthanize it.I mean technically i can "pull" the rock or if u mean move but im unsure how it woulx help plus 1 rock is laying on the rock like this /
Gonna go look quick on my large screenExtremely unlikely for it to be a bobbit, those are vanishingly rare in the hobby at this point. There are way more species of eunicid, most of which are scavengers and grazers, than just the bobbits.
"Pull" the rock means pulling it completely out of the tank. Squirting RODI water into that hole (with the rock out of the water) would probably make it come out. Wear gloves to handle the rock, and figure out how you're going to humanely kill the worm; it didn't ask to be here. Plonking it in a saltwater cup in the fridge until it goes insensate, then into the freezer, should be OK if you don't have any clove oil to cleanly euthanize it.
They never crawl all the way out, and they are lightning fast at retracting.can you pull the rock?
If so put it in a Tupperware and wait a while. . . I imagine once the rock is dry enough he will crawl out. . . at least thats what I have seen some critters do when I pull LR.
Heres a video of satan himself, you can clearly see it has 5 tentacles
You might if you feed at lights out! I used to feed flake to a serpent star and my bigger eunice would come right out for it!Then I vote pull the rock and start a worm tank. . . maybe you can train it to take food off tongs!!!
Worms are red, worms are blue. Where there was one, now there's two!I agree. The head looks like one of the dangerous worms. I would try to remove it.. gently. Don't want it breaking and giving you the gift of two worms.
I have to disagree from my experience. I had KP Aquatics rock with two of these hitchhikers. I found and removed one before putting in my display, but found the other a year later and was eating my Garf Bonsai Acropora (red flashlights kinda work with not startling them). He was still skinny but ~13 inches long when I finally removed him. They were both all black with a white collar. I actually knew he was there because of the small pile of empty snail shells on the sandbed below. Maybe mine was rogue relative to its species, but glad he was removed.Oh, looks like you've got one of the black ones with a white collar. Those eunicids are pretty common on Florida live rock, and from what I've been able to find, are harmless to everything except macroalgae. They get big and freaky-looking, but they won't hurt anything, and they are pretty cool. I'm a little miffed that mine don't seem to have lasted, I was hoping for a giant.