WHo has the largest or most bristleworms? Let's see!!

[chipper]

I have a ton of these guys in my tanks right now and I actually trapped one that was 4 inches long. I was just curious if anyone had picture of bristleworms in there tank?

 

[wablondie98664]

heres a pic of one i found a week ago. about 8 inches. pulled it out of tank to take pic

 

[bang guy]

SteveWeast has a picture of the largest I've seen come out of an aquarium. I think it was something like 8 feet long.

 

[007]

Originally posted by Bang Guy
Steve West has a picture of the largest I've seen come out of an aquarium. I think it was something like 8 feet long.
Wasn't that a eucnid worm? (yeah I can't spell it) Or are they the same thing?

 

[chipper]

WOW!! I can't imagine a worm being 8 feet long or even 8 inches long. I thought my tank was weird because it has 4 inch bristleworms.

 

[bang guy]

Originally posted by 007
Wasn't that a eucnid worm?
Yes, it was a Eunicid. Eunicid Worms are a type of Bristleworm.

 

[nicky1.8t]

wablondie i love your avatar

 

[007]

Originally posted by Bang Guy
Yes, it was a Eunicid. Eunicid Worms are a type of Bristleworm.
learn sumthin' new every day!

 

[bang guy]

My error... it was only 7.5 feet.

 

[lovethesea]

you would have to resusitate me after finding something like that in my tank. I am not a snake person either.
There was a post a few weeks ago and someone has theirs in a bottle of vodka I think. I suggested it should be in a bottle of
Tequila..
I am surprised you can can those things whole out of the tank.
Do they put up a fight?

 

[bang guy]

I think Steve broke off about 18" of the tail end getting it out. From what I understand it was in the PVC frame he used to hold up his live rock.

 

[lovethesea]

OMG, 18" more?!!!!! 2 words..... HEART FAILURE

 

[beth]

He killed it

 

[chipper]

I know this might be a stupid question, but can bristleworms kill fish?

 

[lovethesea]

I would love to know the answer to that also. I'm thinkin' that something over 7 feet long should be able to kill sometthing if it wanted to.

 

[cnlight]

That has got to be the biggest worm I have ever seen. Too scary. He does have a huge tank and all, but I can't even imagine something that big in an aquarium.

 

[bang guy]

Originally posted by Chipper
I know this might be a stupid question, but can bristleworms kill fish?
There is at least one species of Bristleworm (out of more than 10,000) that is able to catch & eat fish. I don't believe Steve's worm could have. I believe his was a soft coral predator but I could be mistaken. The fish catcher would have to be very large and the fish would have to be small.

 

[asbury030]

That thing is pretty gross.

 

[jillian ayers]

Bristleworms have been known to choke seahorses to death sometimes when the horse tries to suck them up and they're too big, but that's the only thing I know about bristles killing fish.

 

[bigred]

Here's one I pulled from my tank when I was doing a crash fix. I figure he was about 6 inches but I cut some of him off with a cup so I don't really know how long he really was. You can see the quarter in the pic for reference.