I've spent a fair amount of time searching for and reading posts about Eunice worms on here over the past year -- just for awareness. Well, this week all that reading came in handy b/c while I was making breakfast the other morning I can see the tank through the kitchen island area, and noticed a white area in the sand up against the glass that looked like a burrow area. Further inspection revealed what is very clearly a small Eunice worm living in it. This is on par w/my worst tank nightmare but I'm trying to play it cool here. It's fairly long but very small, so not like some full grown beastly thing, so I took one of the planaria traps I have on hand for my FW tank, put some thawed frozen mussel in it, set it over the worm's burrow area, and hoped that overnight I'd have it trapped. Two nights later and nothing. Only the zombie snails showed interest (and I learned they have extremely long extending mouth parts -- ew), and there are a few amphipods trapped in there.
So I have two questions:
1. I know it's impossible to ID 100%, but given the below description do we collectively think it's likely not a bobbit?
Reddish brown w/a white stripe at the base of it's head. Very long tentacle feelers on it's head, and that's how I made the Eunice ID.
2. Is refreshing the trap every day and being patient a fine way to eventually get it?
I'm not into the idea of rooting around in there and trying to pull it out -- it's not worth the mess and possibly kicking up something bad in the sand or pulling the worm apart by accident.
So I have two questions:
1. I know it's impossible to ID 100%, but given the below description do we collectively think it's likely not a bobbit?
Reddish brown w/a white stripe at the base of it's head. Very long tentacle feelers on it's head, and that's how I made the Eunice ID.
2. Is refreshing the trap every day and being patient a fine way to eventually get it?
I'm not into the idea of rooting around in there and trying to pull it out -- it's not worth the mess and possibly kicking up something bad in the sand or pulling the worm apart by accident.