Omg….bobbit worm?

[CHSUB]

Another hitchhiker….hard to get a great picture. Fast and been killing snail, as evident of a pile of shells it has been making.

 

[Robert Ranciato]

I would take out everything until I found that monster. I don't kill anything but I would kill that thing in a second.

 

[elysics]

Yes. Well not the specific original "bobbit" one but close enough, it needs to be taken out of there

 

[dvgyfresh]

Definitely matches , bottle trap would be my first try

 

[Macropharyngodon]

Genuinely looks so sick in that lighting tho :)

 

[mfollen]

Seriously. Get rid of it.

I came home from work 10+ years ago seeing one chomping on zoas!!!
I’d wait till it crawls in a rock and take the whole rock out

 

[JumboShrimp]

Nightmare on Elm Sea!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

YUCK!!!

 

[JoJosReef]

Bottle trap never worked for me. Only thing that worked for my Eunicids was removing the rock completely. If you grab it and break it apart, it regenerates, even a head.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

DOUBLE YUCK!!

 

[JoJosReef]

DOUBLE YUCK!!

I grabbed one once with tongs while lights waere off and I had a red lamp to see by. The thing twisted its body and head around like a cobra and began attacking the tongs with its mandibles. Startled me so much I lost grip of the tongs and POOF, gone back into its hole. After that, I did not try to catch them anymore.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

TRIPLE YUCK!!!

 

[Tripod1404]

I got one out with a piece of table shrimp on squid lure.

The trick is not to pull the lure. Just apply enough tension to prevent it from backing in. It will eventually tire out and let go.

 

[CHSUB]

Thanks for the comments…and yes it looks nasty! As mentioned the colors are very kool: bright orange and red with black and white.

I small bucket of live rock has included many hitchhikers: stone crab, 3 mantis shrimp, 2 welks, Bobbit, few gorilla crabs.

 

[Macropharyngodon]

Sad... if you had a big enough sump tho :)

Goodluck catching him!

 

[papercrab]

NO MERCY. im generally against killign pests but that is a horror. Trap it (whole as it can reprduce half of its body) avoid its mouthpieces as these can draw blood. Dont touch the body as it is venomous and irrating to skin and drop it in a large bucket of freshwater (are preferably drop it back into hell) and then RUN

 

[papercrab]

Or you could see if anyone wants a bobbit worm near you (pet?) But probally the latter is the easyest

 

[Lavey29]

I guess I'm in the minority few here but I wouldn’t remove any living creature hitch hiker from my tank. I just see everything as part of the overall ecosystem and they live in a reef for a reason. All God's creatures have their role in nature. Im not opposed to introducing natural predators into the tank to solve a situation though because the same would occur in the ocean too.

 

[Macropharyngodon]

I guess I'm in the minority few here but I wouldn’t remove any living creature hitch hiker from my tank. I just see everything as part of the overall ecosystem and they live in a reef for a reason. All God's creatures have their role in nature. Im not opposed to introducing natural predators into the tank to solve a situation though because the same would occur in the ocean too.

Bobbit worms are something tho. Full grown individuals are capable of eating lionfish. They are a predator that I don't think is meant for a system that is carefully maintained for minimal stress. Not to mention that they can be annoying in terms of parameters, Because they kill your CUC, and don't eat algae.

Note: this is coming from someone who loves hitchhikers.

 

[Lavey29]

Bobbit worms are something tho. Full grown individuals are capable of eating lionfish. They are a predator that I don't think is meant for a system that is carefully maintained for minimal stress. Not to mention that they can be annoying in terms of parameters, Because they kill your CUC, and don't eat algae.

Note: this is coming from someone who loves hitchhikers.

Thats good info and I'm sure very accurate. I just have a hard time terminating living creatures that God put here for a reason. Google says some large wrasses take out juvenile bobbits so that would be my option if it wasn't to large