Something kill my fish

[Land2013]

After my Rainfordi goby and follow by six line wrasse die, today take the courage to take out all LR and found this thing. Thought of mantis shrimp do it but this is more than that. Anyone know what it's? It was very big as compare to the crab.

[veliferium]

Bro, you've got yourself a bobbit worm!

Lucky you managed to fish it out. It's a menace and nightmare of many amateur and professional reefers alike.

[Quas111]

Yep confirm Bobbit worm, as Veliferium said. Doing a hypersalinity dip before you put them in the tank would have reduced the chance of introducing one into your system

[Land2013]

It was errŕrr when found it. Im doing low salinity and found it. I need to change hyper salinity to be more precise?

[Quas111]

Yes hyper salinity is faster, more effective and doesn't damage the LR as much as hypo salinity(low salinity)

[Kelvin81]

Agreed on hyper. Same thing happened to me.

[Land2013]

Maybe later i try hyper salinity. The tick tick sound should from mantis shrimp but it yet to surface.

[Quas111]

Maybe later i try hyper salinity. The tick tick sound should from mantis shrimp but it yet to surface.

may be from pistol shrimp also. Pistol shrimp is ok, & not a pest

[Martian]

I was lucky, I managed to see those worms and caught them...

[ReDDeviLs]

bear in mine they do come with corals too... many at times with the rocks that have corals attached to it,

[Martian]

bear in mine they do come with corals too... many at times with the rocks that have corals attached to it,

Yeah... I read that they can be anywhere... sand, rocks, corals... As long as they can hide and ambush unsuspecting prey...

[Quas111]

That kinda sucks but it's lucky that they aren't too common to appear everywhere like bristleworms

[Land2013]

This is 2nd batch after hyper salinity. Likely inside LR having massive die off. Most likely to cure the LR inside container for a week before put back to tank. Lucky i put some bio home inside IOS. Maybe those reefer with missing fish one follow by another one is same situation like me. Lol.

[Quas111]

Damn that's a lot of worms. What's that striped thing in the center? A worm or a shrimp?

[veliferium]

Damn that's a lot of worms. What's that striped thing in the center? A worm or a shrimp?

Striped one is a pistol shrimp.

Second batch mostly are bristleworms, they can be good or bad, depends on how you see it

[Land2013]

There is no turn back now. Whether good or bad, had to go to the end. Can't take a risk of any escape bobbit worm.

[Martian]

Wah... So many hitchhikers.. Looks like you hit the jackpot! Hope you got all of them. Bristle worms can bite if you are not careful while doing WC...

[Land2013]

Wah... So many hitchhikers.. Looks like you hit the jackpot! Hope you got all of them. Bristle worms can bite if you are not careful while doing WC...

Those worm will come back no matter how you cure the LR. Just no bobbit worm will do. Maybe you can check urs.lol

[Quas111]

Striped one is a pistol shrimp.

Second batch mostly are bristleworms, they can be good or bad, depends on how you see it

the pistol shrimp looked quite nice, but if land2013 doesn't like it then it's up to him!

[Martian]

Those worm will come back no matter how you cure the LR. Just no bobbit worm will do. Maybe you can check urs.lol

Lol... So far so good... No sign of any yet. Hope it'll stay that way.

[Quas111]

Those worm will come back no matter how you cure the LR. Just no bobbit worm will do. Maybe you can check urs.lol

they bite you? I have pulled out bristleworms with my fingers and they never inflicted any damage to them. Maybe I was just lucky a few dozen times?

[Land2013]

Errrr. i not dare to touch it with bare hand. I use a pincer to do the pick up.

[Martian]

they bite you? I have pulled out bristleworms with my fingers and they never inflicted any damage to them. Maybe I was just lucky a few dozen times?

I never got bitten before - I just read some forumers elsewhere that they were badly bitten by them but their bristle worms are big ones...

[Martian]

Errrr. i not dare to touch it with bare hand. I use a pincer to do the pick up.

[veliferium]

It's actually fine bristles on their body getting stuck on your skin which causes irritation