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jackdp · 11-12-2003, 10:27 PM

15"....try frying it up with some butter and garlic...bristleworm scampi style...you could submit it to Red Lobster

jamal-188 · 11-12-2003, 10:40 PM

WOW

Thanks insane!!!

11-12-2003, 10:41 PM

Your telling me... When it walks across my 29g tank it is over half the tank... When they say that they can get up to 24" stretched out I believe this one surpasses that my a few inches.. What should I do with him.. With this size could he have killed my clam???

[acronym:e9de1d053e="Thanks in Advance"]TIA[/acronym:e9de1d053e],
James

wseaton · 11-13-2003, 12:16 AM

Man, better start charging that sea monster some rent.

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Have you actually seen the coral banded shrimp eat them

Yep, and big suckers to. Strutting around the tank with a bristle worm firmly snagged in his front pinchers, and lookin' real proud while dining away. He catches about two a month that I can see. I never thought CB shrimp were good for anything other than look fierce, but mine earns his rent.

bizzybeas · 11-13-2003, 12:41 AM

eeekkk! That is one ugly worm!

Porksound · 11-13-2003, 01:20 AM

a few years ago I broke down an 80 [acronym:acf5925094="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:acf5925094] and as I pulled a big chunk of rock out a bristle worm at least that long slithered out of it!!!! Mine was really thin though (like 1/8 inch), so he might have been stretched all the way out...

Funniest thing was I had NO idea I had him until that day... a little unnerving to have to pull them out at that size... I wonder, what do they EAT?!!!!

p

possum · 11-13-2003, 03:14 AM

whatever they eat they must be getting plenty of it!!!!

silverain420 · 11-13-2003, 10:01 AM

Mine seem to come out and eat anything left on the sandbed. I had some Krill that was too big for my fish and it fell to the bottom. I was thinking about pulling it out and then watched a monstrous bristle worm come out and grab it. Wrapped his whole mouth around the chunk!

ReefLady · 11-13-2003, 10:12 AM

Ack! Well, most ppl know I like my bristleworms, but even I would remove that from my tank.

ewwww!

notmuffy · 11-13-2003, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ReefLady

Ack! Well, most ppl know I like my bristleworms, but even I would remove that from my tank.

ewwww!

Not me! I'm not going NEAR that thing

THey sure do grow 'em big in Oregon....

11-12-2003, 10:27 PM	#11
jackdp Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 866 Images: 5	15"....try frying it up with some butter and garlic...bristleworm scampi style...you could submit it to Red Lobster __________________ Brad C.

11-13-2003, 12:41 AM	#15
bizzybeas Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: May 2003 Location: Arizona Posts: 372 Images: 7	eeekkk! That is one ugly worm! __________________ "So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems...And God saw that it was good" Gen1:21

11-13-2003, 03:14 AM	#17
possum Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Louisiana Posts: 558 Images: 5	whatever they eat they must be getting plenty of it!!!! __________________ http://www.coralclub.org/coralbanner.jpg

11-13-2003, 10:01 AM	#18
silverain420 Aquarium Advice Regular Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Posts: 91 Images: 3	Mine seem to come out and eat anything left on the sandbed. I had some Krill that was too big for my fish and it fell to the bottom. I was thinking about pulling it out and then watched a monstrous bristle worm come out and grab it. Wrapped his whole mouth around the chunk! __________________ Jen --A life without ecstacy is not true life, and not worth living. -Eliot Cowan--

11-13-2003, 10:12 AM	#19
ReefLady Aquarium Advice FINatic Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raymond, NH Posts: 872 Images: 7	Ack! Well, most ppl know I like my bristleworms, but even I would remove that from my tank. ewwww! __________________ Teri ----- http://www.reefsanctuary.com/Banners/RS_banner9.gif

11-12-2003, 10:40 PM	#12
jamal-188 Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: PA Posts: 1,809 Images: 9	WOW Thanks insane!!!

11-12-2003, 10:41 PM	#13
cj10488 Guest Posts: n/a	Your telling me... When it walks across my 29g tank it is over half the tank... When they say that they can get up to 24" stretched out I believe this one surpasses that my a few inches.. What should I do with him.. With this size could he have killed my clam??? [acronym:e9de1d053e="Thanks in Advance"]TIA[/acronym:e9de1d053e], James

11-13-2003, 01:20 AM	#16
Porksound Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Sacramento CA Posts: 26	a few years ago I broke down an 80 [acronym:acf5925094="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:acf5925094] and as I pulled a big chunk of rock out a bristle worm at least that long slithered out of it!!!! Mine was really thin though (like 1/8 inch), so he might have been stretched all the way out... Funniest thing was I had NO idea I had him until that day... a little unnerving to have to pull them out at that size... I wonder, what do they EAT?!!!! p

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