Tridacna Predator Flatworm

[Alti]

Watch out for these guys.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f7e1tBOSKE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[ddr_phish]

Wow I've never heard of such a thing. How big is that??

 

[Alti]

it was about 4 inches long when fully extended.

 

[I-K@ndY]

Rob that thing is freaky

 

[Alti]

It scared the heck out of me. I picked up a zoa colony and felt something big squirming on my hand :) Almost dropped the rock.

 

[Viva'sReef]

It scared the heck out of me. I picked up a zoa colony and felt something big squirming on my hand :) Almost dropped the rock.

Wow thats enough to make me quit the hobby!! Haa j/k, but its something that would REALLY freak me out

 

[mheaven]

Man, now thats something you dont see everyday...

 

[droblack]

Yikes! What a trip! Hope there aren't any babies in your tank!

 

[daaznmofo]

i had to go hunting at night for that flatworm. took me 2 months to finally get him out. hope i got all of it out.

 

[Alti]

Yikes! What a trip! Hope there aren't any babies in your tank!

I dont have clams any more so there is nothing to feed any babies. I actually found this one in a zoanthid colony. I left some zoanthids in the QT tank with the flatworm and he did not touch them. It withered away and died in a few weeks.

 

[Ladipyg]

Man, it wouldn't take long for something that size to wipe out a clam collection...UGH!

 

[daaznmofo]

it ate my clam and many many snails.

 

[Alti]

Even though they are big, they are nearly invisible in the rockwork. They can squeeze into the tiniest of holes and normally dont come out til its dark. I can see people having these and never knowing it.

 

[ZOABOY]

dang,.

 

[Gimili the Great]

this one looks really similar to the one they found at aquamart in the denver area in CO

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1m0EWnQr1U[/youtube]

 

[acronautical]

That is truly disturbing! It's like some kind of oozy "Thing From Outer Space" or something.

 

[Paul_N]

I had two of those in my tank and I have two clams (one 9"+, one 4") I got both out but not before they ate half of my snails and two serpent stars. Well, they just ate the legs off of my serpent star. That was how I got the second one out, he was eating the last leg on my star so I took them out together. My clams are up high on the rocks so I think they hadn't made it up there yet.