Nightmarish Sea Worm Infested Aquarium Secretly For Years
SURREY, UK – A three-foot long fish-eating Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois), with razor-sharp teeth was discovered at Maidenhead Aquatics store in Surrey, UK. The creature was located by accident when a 200 gallon tank was emptied last week.
The worm has jaws twice the width of its body and was found underneath the last rock lifted from the aquarium. The owner and the staff were completely surprised and said that the store would keep it.
Unfortunately when they removed it from the tank it ripped into three sections, but that’s no problem. Why?
Two of those sections lived… and one of them is starting to react to shrimp in the tank.
The worms have reportedly begun to spin a mucous web around themselves in preparation for their next terrifying form. The teeth of the Bobbit worm are so sharp they are known to slice their prey in half before eating them.
Here’s some clips of the predator worm in action.
Bobbit Worm – Dinner time from liquidguru on Vimeo.
Here’s a video of a Bobbit worm vs. a Lionfish
17 comments
Why would you keep the thing from Tremors as a pet?
WHY WOULDN’T YOU!
hell yeah to the bobbit worm!
looks like the thresher maw from mass effect…
Maidenhead is in Berkshire, not Surrey.
This lists them as in Surrey? http://www.isurrey.co.uk/profile/460594/Woking/Maidenhead-Aquatics/
I see the company has expanded nationwide, my error.
No worries, thanks for your diligence.
That wasn’t a fight, but a one sided massacre…
I used to have a salt water tank, and when you put “live rock” (i.e. rock that essentially had a number of organisms already one them) in your tank, you never know what you’d get. I found a number of crazy creatures over the years.
Mantis shrimp being one of the worst. Killed a bunch of my fish before I got the bastard.
Damn nature, you scary.
Seems to be a trend. Linked video after the one above says that in March of 2009 one was found at Bluereef aquarium in Cornwall, UK: http://youtu.be/sczu8Q0YpLQ?t=1m38s
Nice sound effects …
Bobbit worm?
Lorena Bobbit?
Fight?!I saw a fish get took out!!Lol!
They must have been getting their substrate from the wild and it had larvae in it if I had to guess. They didn’t sterilize it before hand.
How did the Octopus get away??