Need help urgent, what is this?

[redotcom]

 Hi guys, my nemo being bite by this worm and i had been watching the entire "movie" until my nemo became mummy. After my lovely nemo die on that spot, the worm just keep sucking its body meet until what was left is only skin and bones. The process of sucking is about less than 1 hour. This had been my 3rd fish died in this few months, now i know why! Anyone got any idea to catch it or kill it. Its just keep hidding until just now.

finding a good spot to start its dinner

Another picture of it

After a while, it go under the fin and begin to suck until my nemo became mummy

It show off its self after finished its dinner

My friends and 1, its like watching a X Files TV shows

I was shock because its body is very long, this is just part of its head only, i can see a bit, it still got a long way hiding.    

[Terryz_]

The fish is weak to begin from the photo.. And that is a bobbit worm, Eunice sp... They are ambush predator that ambush fish and the also scavenge for food outside their burrow... All I can say now is to catch out that worm.... I used to poke chopstick into their burrow, Dun see them after a few poking session... But I dun get them in my new tank now..

Edited July 27, 2011 by Terryz_

[CFOh]

Yes, it is Bobbit Worm (Eunice aphroditois), below r nice pics on bigger bobbit prey in action, captured in the wild from my favorite Magazine Ocean Geographic March this year.

Cheers...

[Bulldozer]

Poor thing... Poor Nemo ...

IN the first place, how did the Bobbit Worm got there ? Came with the Rocks ?

[CFOh]

  On 7/28/2011 at 12:48 AM, Bulldozer said:

Poor thing... Poor Nemo ...

IN the first place, how did the Bobbit Worm got there ? Came with the Rocks ?

Possible... Below vid taken from my colleague tank few days ago... The Bobbit is a long live resident in the rock... Cheers...

[redotcom]

Bulldozer: yup i think come with rock

by the way Terryz_ : thanks a lot for the advice for using chopstick, but difficult for me to do that because if i do that my head will be under water already, ha!

still thinking a way to kill it !!! i think maybe need to bring all the things out first.

thanks a lot guys