This worm ate my adult size Flame Goby!!

[Bubber]

Finally caught this disgusting worm! First saw it one month ago but was unable to catch it until now. Must have came with the live rocks.

I left it out of water for awhile and it soon spit out the top half body of my Flame Goby

I guess this could be the killer of my other small fish...

[desideria]

eeewwww disgusting.... glad you got the bugger out.

.... I too caught my bobbit worm about 1.5 feet last week.. absolutely eewwwk worthy.

[yikai]

omg im glad you did not touch it.

that's a fire worm and touching it would result in horrible horrible HORRIBLE pain

[cjh]

that doesn't look like a bobbit worm.. more like fire or bristle worm..didn't know that they eat live fishes like bobbit worms..

[iskay]

That looks like a fireworm. Here's an interesting article about them.

[vinccc2009]

just wonder how worms eat live fishes?

but worms will eat dead fishes. so i think maybe your fish already dead and this pest went for its meal.

[finind]

just wonder how worms eat live fishes?

but worms will eat dead fishes. so i think maybe your fish already dead and this pest went for its meal.

that's more likely

[Ketchup]

They could have sting and injured the healthy fish.

[Bubber]

Not sure if it was stung or just died and the worm ate it, but this Flame Goby was one of my first few fishes and it's quite established.

Based on Lemon's comment, the worm certainly look capable of killing small fishes if it packs such painful stings. Certainly glad I didn't touch it. It looks too disgusting to handle anyway.

Really regret not digging it out earlier when I first saw it. I didn't want to disturb my rockwork and fishes just to get to it. But now come to think of it, I could have saved some of my fishes if I had done so...Haiz....