I'm throwing my whole house away because of what I just found in my tank...If I have to see it, so do you!

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Update: Send help, it has mandibles and tried to eat my tongs! Also, there isn't three...THERE IS FRIGGIN FOUR.

Please ignore my hands shaking, those things are mighty scary when your hand is just centimeters over the water. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

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Update: Send help, it has mandibles and tried to eat my tongs! Also, there isn't three...THERE IS FRIGGIN FOUR.

Please ignore my hands shaking, those things are mighty scary when your hand is just centimeters over the water. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:


I'd say spend some time looking how to rig a baited trap in a reef tank. Might save a lot of angst in the long run.
Cheers,
Ray :cool:
 

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Update: Send help, it has mandibles and tried to eat my tongs! Also, there isn't three...THERE IS FRIGGIN FOUR.

Please ignore my hands shaking, those things are mighty scary when your hand is just centimeters over the water. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:


Watching this from the couch beside you was priceless
 
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Good luck! I failed for over a year. FYI, if you break them apart they can grow back, including growing back heads.

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A large black one in Tonga rock wiped out clams, rhizos, acan and a bite out of the middle of Helrichi fire fish. All within a couple of nights. To get rid of it we broke open the rock, very interesting tunnels, put that monster out in the desert. I removed all that rock after this. So nasty!
 
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I'd say spend some time looking how to rig a baited trap in a reef tank. Might save a lot of angst in the long run.
Cheers,
Ray :cool:
Do you think have enough room for that in the tank since it's 20-oz? There is maybe 2 - 2 1/2 inches between the rock and glass.:loudly-crying-face:
 

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Looks like a bristle worm but cant tell for sure I have dozens in my tank but nowhere close to that size, Just grab it with tweezers and dispose of it
 

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Do you think have enough room for that in the tank since it's 20-oz? There is maybe 2 - 2 1/2 inches between the rock and glass.:loudly-crying-face:
You should - it really doesn't take a lot of width/space for a trap. There's a plethora of commercial ones (bristle worm traps) available, but the basic premise is a small container with an opening just a bit larger than their diameter, and some bait, such as a small piece of clam, shrimp, or such. do a search for some pics. Place it near the opening of the burrow after lights go out. Repeat this a few times until they "get used to it being there with food" and then one evening a few hours after lights out check it and remove it to a separate container to see if you've caught one. Try to ensure you remove the entire worm - they do regenerate from sections left behind...so to speak.
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Ray :cool:
 

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Yep catch them
They would be nice as a snack on toast lol
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