Havin' a freakout

LOL!!!! I've tried with tongs but with no luck either....

 

poor thing!.. I used extra-long tweasers to get most of ours out of the live rock we have.

 

I'm not too concerned with the 1-3 inchers, but this is an animal.

 

got any pics?

 

No, not yet. If I see him again, I'll try. I'd like one of him out of the water with a knot on his head LOL

 

Thanks everyone for your help, support, and compassion. You are all GREAT!!!

 

Think we've all had these suckers. First big one I saw was bigger then most earthworms and some snakes that I have seen. I'd just leave it be, I'd bet if you looked at your tanks an hour after lights out you'd be surprised at the number in your tank. Next time you feed look closely at the rocks that your food seems to stick to, or don't if you don't like worms.

They do have traps that will get the smaller ones but when I used it.... I found out how many I had in my tanks. My girlfriend, now wife, didn't want to come into the apartment for weeks! So be prepared.

I didn't know that the coral banded took care of them but my problem started when I lost mine so that makes sense. I also have had success with arrow crabs and Neon Pseudochromis. I have seen both of these go after the small worms aggressively and the neon picked at and killed some of the large ones(I assume that since I'd find them dead and getting eaten by the crabs). Shortcoming was that both of them died a few months after the worms were gone. Someone told me the tank raised are less likely to eat the worms :-/ Don’t know what mine was but he ate and hunted them with a vengeance.

 

im not sure, penut worms will retract very fast, but they dont look like bristle works!

 

I had one that would snatch a chunk of silverside right out of my bta's mouth... Nasty little suckers...

 

Yes they can be quick like that, one that big can hurt you if you brush up againt it. So I would find a way to get him out of there. Take a clear plastic water bottle, a small one, put a little sand inside to weigh it down. Then put some food inside of it, something that the scent will get out of the bottle. Tie a string around the neck, put the bottle on the bottom near the worms home. Watch and Wait and when it comes out and gets into the bottle, and it will pull the bottle out of the tank and cap it. I just recently caught one like this from my sump.