Scary!!

[Monster Dave]

You guys have to check this thing out!! It's crazy freaky looking!!!

Giant Sea Worm!!!!

http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269?icid=webmail|wbml-aol|dl1|link1|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fgiant-sea-worm%2F412269

[ZLTFUL]

Ahhh Eunicid worms. The bane of reef keepers everywhere.
There was a guy on Reef Central who pulled an 8 foot one out of his home aquarium.

I have a 2 foot long bristle worm (beneficial worm) in my tank currently. I must admit that I have had visions of it eating me while i sleep. It's scary looking.

[Spicoli]

The photos on that website make it look HUGE... photos here make it a little more reasonable... and understand how it could be a hard thing to find. 

http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_worm.htm

[teddy037.2]

Slater said he suspects Barry arrived as a baby in a shipment from another aquarium.

that made me 


and that is one freaky lookin' worm, holy zombie jesus!

[PizzaMonster]

There was a guy on Reef Central who pulled an 8 foot one out of his home aquarium.

I have a 2 foot long bristle worm (beneficial worm) in my tank currently. I must admit that I have had visions of it eating me while i sleep. It's scary looking.

Yeah. I had a bristleworm problem in my reef tank a few years ago.  The biggest one I had seen was about an inch long and about the thickness of  a pipe-cleaner so I never really got too concerned.  Months later, my daughter was house-sitting while we were on vacation and she called me to say there was a two foot "snake" in my aquarium.   I kinda laughed, figuring she was being a typical dramatic teenaged girl .  When I got home I noticed a few animals had mysteriously vanished from the tank. 

Later that night I sat beside the tank with a flashlight waiting to see what might crawl out of the rocks after dark.  Sure enough, this monster worm about 18 inches long and the thickness of my thumb slithered out of a crevice.  Creepy looking thing..and fast too!   It took me weeks to finally figure what rock he lived in so he could be removed.

[Scottish]

ew. These stories give me the willies and I'm not even a mambie-pamby... it's the idea that they could hide in there undetected for so long.... 

[IZ]

Yeah. I had a bristleworm problem in my reef tank a few years ago.  The biggest one I had seen was about an inch long and about the thickness of  a pipe-cleaner so I never really got too concerned.  Months later, my daughter was house-sitting while we were on vacation and she called me to say there was a two foot "snake" in my aquarium.   I kinda laughed, figuring she was being a typical dramatic teenaged girl .  When I got home I noticed a few animals had mysteriously vanished from the tank. 

Later that night I sat beside the tank with a flashlight waiting to see what might crawl out of the rocks after dark.  Sure enough, this monster worm about 18 inches long and the thickness of my thumb slithered out of a crevice.  Creepy looking thing..and fast too!   It took me weeks to finally figure what rock he lived in so he could be removed.

That's crazy!


Back to the OP..I flipped through all those scary creature pics and then went on to the rare creatures pics..there was a pic of a white killer whale.  That would be cool to see an entire shot of that thing instead of just the fin.

speaking of worms..when I worked in the hospital, I used to watch autopsies and got to see all the weird pics.  Lots of pics of tape worms and other creatures taken out of human bodies.  BLAH!!   

[Grampa]

ha..... it's Barry and he make the beast with two backsing things up!   

[Popeye the Sailor]

Anyone else see that thing and think......bait?



Think of what you could catch!

[NAKID]

Yeah, you'd just have to pull it out of it's stomach...