Please ID Large Worm

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For some reason I feel bad for the little thing... I honestly wanna just kept it myself at this point haha!
Looks like you and OP are both in Virginia... ;)

I'd consider keeping such a worm in a species tank myself if I found one in my live rock, but that would just be an encouragement to my Multiple Tank Syndrome.
 

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Looks like you and OP are both in Virginia... ;)

I'd consider keeping such a worm in a species tank myself if I found one in my live rock, but that would just be an encouragement to my Multiple Tank Syndrome.
:eek: we are both in VIRGINIA! Not sure why but it looks goofy and I wanna keep it now LOL. It wouldnt do much sadley though, I've got a heater and a filter and a tank. I could just buy a cheap 10 dollar light for it cause i can't grow coral but maybe some macroalgae or something. Can I keep multiple worms in the same tank you think? Fire worms look very cool.
 

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If it were up to me I would make a species only worm tank. I would love to keep some sort of fish or something with it howeever sadley not a lot fits in a 10 gallon and plus it would problably be killed. Plus corals are cooked with it.
 

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:eek: we are both in VIRGINIA! Not sure why but it looks goofy and I wanna keep it now LOL. It wouldnt do much sadley though, I've got a heater and a filter and a tank. I could just buy a cheap 10 dollar light for it cause i can't grow coral but maybe some macroalgae or something. Can I keep multiple worms in the same tank you think? Fire worms look very cool.
As long as the Eunice worm does not eat the fireworm, they could probably both be kept pretty easily in a 10-gallon aquarium. I've no firsthand experience, but it would probably be easy to keep them fed with chunks of shrimp or typical fish food pellets.

We might be going off-topic from the ID, though, unless you are able to coordinate with TD1260 to get the worm in question...
 

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As long as the Eunice worm does not eat the fireworm, they could probably both be kept pretty easily in a 10-gallon aquarium. I've no firsthand experience, but it would probably be easy to keep them fed with chunks of shrimp or typical fish food pellets.

We might be going off-topic from the ID, though, unless you are able to coordinate with TD1260 to get the worm in question...
I actually pmd him to see if he's close to my hometown LOL! If he is I might just take it from him. I think this would be the first worm tank on r2r so...
 

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As long as the Eunice worm does not eat the fireworm, they could probably both be kept pretty easily in a 10-gallon aquarium. I've no firsthand experience, but it would probably be easy to keep them fed with chunks of shrimp or typical fish food pellets.

We might be going off-topic from the ID, though, unless you are able to coordinate with TD1260 to get the worm in question...
I'd love to add featherdusters or something with the worms. WORM ONLY TANK as said before. Adding color would be nice but theyd problably eat coral... seaweed and seagrass I could prolly keep with them though.
 

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I would go to the nearest Catholic priest, looks like a high level demonic entity
Jokes aside I would feed this thing to the toilet. It's colors and length seem a little off for a typical bristle worm. It also looks like it has an exoskeleton unlike a typical bristle worm, that is something the bobbit worm has though. I could be wrong but it just doesn't look very "fleshy". I'm leaning towards Eunice aphroditois, the bobbit worm (something in the wheelhouse at least). When their mouths aren't open, they look very similar to one of your earlier images, here's an example.
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I would go to the nearest Catholic priest, looks like a high level demonic entity
Jokes aside I would feed this thing to the toilet. It's colors and length seem a little off for a typical bristle worm. It also looks like it has an exoskeleton unlike a typical bristle worm, that is something the bobbit worm has though. I could be wrong but it just doesn't look very "fleshy". I'm leaning towards Eunice aphroditois, the bobbit worm. When their mouths aren't open, they look very similar to one of your earlier images, here's an example.
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NO NO NO DONT FLUSH IT!!
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I would go to the nearest Catholic priest, looks like a high level demonic entity
Jokes aside I would feed this thing to the toilet. It's colors and length seem a little off for a typical bristle worm. It also looks like it has an exoskeleton unlike a typical bristle worm, that is something the bobbit worm has though. I could be wrong but it just doesn't look very "fleshy". I'm leaning towards Eunice aphroditois, the bobbit worm (something in the wheelhouse at least). When their mouths aren't open, they look very similar to one of your earlier images, here's an example.
1730773234035.png


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The follwing SCP is a Euclid Keter class and must be kept under high level of security looking sentence here. LOL
 

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Tempted to go out to a wet area grab some mud, moss and rocks and find some velvet worms!
They live in rain forests lol, very rare too. Last surviving member of the phylum onychophora, Halluicgenia and Perpatus being its extinct relatives.
Fun fact: Halluicgenia is the worm in Attack on Titan
Edit: Peripatus is not extinct. The remaining onychophora are peripatus and peripatidae
 

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