A Newbie's first bristleworm encounter

cymaster007 · Jul 3, 2012

Just keep an eye out for eunice worms.
I found 3 of them each about 2' long in the outdoor tank....

Reef Bullet · Jul 3, 2012

My first experience with one was when I was a real newb & I was walking past the tank at like 2am & saw the silhouette of something in the moonlight swimming/wriggling through the water like crazy... I thought omg wtf is that!!! Ran & got a flashlight & found that it was a 6" long bristle worm! I didn't even know they could get big like that at the time so I was really like omg wtf!!! Got the tweezers & pulled him out & immediately got online & started googling... This was before I knew about scr, otherwise I'm sure there would have been a thread similar to this one started by me

andrew · Jan 2, 2014

Accidentally grabbed one before, itched for days afterwards

MrSquid · Jan 2, 2014

At least you didn't over-react!

ngvu1 · Jan 3, 2014

What? What do you consider over-react?? J/K. It's a girl thing.

MrSquid said:

dandannoodles · Jan 17, 2014

So what do you guys do with the bristleworm after you pull it out? How do you kill it?

Patt · Jan 20, 2014

LMAO at "sans weiner"

I have never had bristleworms big enough to pull out and kill. I imagine the quickest and most humane way to kill them is to literally stomp em out with something, however cruel that may sound (not to get into a debate about euthanasia).

A Newbie's first bristleworm encounter

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