That is odd, because just today on one of the local saltwater FaceBook pages and two different people found bobbit worms. One was 6 inches and came in a rock that some coral was on and the other is some rock from Petco.
OMGosh! Your luck with bad worms is SCARY
Never know what's really in our tanks....tiny worms might grow a few years inside LR before we have any idea that they are there :invisible:invisible
Well done for getting them out!
I always dip any new rock with Coral RX and / or a freshwater dip before i put them anywhere near my tank. Worms etc fly out of the rocks when i do that. My motto is not to have anything in the tank unless i choose to put it there. I have had rogue crabs, mantis shrimp and worms in the past and its so much easier to get them out of rocks etc before you put them into the tank than have to suffer trying to get them out once they are in. Tear downs of the tank to get them out are not pleasant! (I have spent way to many nights up at 4am putting my aquascape back together after a teardown)
Well done for getting them out!
I always dip any new rock with Coral RX and / or a freshwater dip before i put them anywhere near my tank. Worms etc fly out of the rocks when i do that. My motto is not to have anything in the tank unless i choose to put it there. I have had rogue crabs, mantis shrimp and worms in the past and its so much easier to get them out of rocks etc before you put them into the tank than have to suffer trying to get them out once they are in. Tear downs of the tank to get them out are not pleasant! (I have spent way to many nights up at 4am putting my aquascape back together after a teardown)
My friend that bought a coral on a rock with a 6 inch bobbit worm in it, dipped the coral before adding it to his tank and it did not phase the worm. Luckily he was able to get it out of the rock when he saw it.
Well done for getting them out!
I always dip any new rock with Coral RX and / or a freshwater dip before i put them anywhere near my tank. Worms etc fly out of the rocks when i do that. My motto is not to have anything in the tank unless i choose to put it there. I have had rogue crabs, mantis shrimp and worms in the past and its so much easier to get them out of rocks etc before you put them into the tank than have to suffer trying to get them out once they are in. Tear downs of the tank to get them out are not pleasant! (I have spent way to many nights up at 4am putting my aquascape back together after a teardown)
ohhhh very smart! i guess in my case the vinegar nuked them inside the rock because when i did a cold water dip nothing came out. Ill use that trick! thx for the share
Stephane, I had a friend purchase a coral with a 6 inch Bobbit in it yesterday, the dip did nothing to it. Luckily, he found it and manually removed it.
The video says it is corrupt. Couldn't see it.
Don't know how I missed this cool thread. I saw the video. It's definitely a Eucinid Worm or Bobbit Worm, same thing. A good way to get rid of it is to take the rock that it is in and suspend it over a bucket of water. It has to be real close to the water. Give it 15 - 30 minutes without scaring it and it will jump ship into the bucket of water. This method also works well with crabs and Mantis.
You can see some copepods running around on the rock, too.
I read somewhere about putting a hollow rock type thing in the tank with a little hole in the bottom. Then you put something meaty in the structure like a shrimp or something, and put the hole down towards the substrate so nothing else can get in there and take the bait. Let it sit over night and check it in the morning to see if you caught anything..
Not sure what you could use as the "structure", but it sounds like a logical idea to me, lol.