Bobbit worm removal?

[CK00020]

I have some newer KP aquatic live rock and have located a bobbit worm living in it, any ideas on how to remove him? The rock is movable, but also has some trochus snails and a brittle star on it

 

[CK00020]

Pics to follow when he comes back out

 

[DungSl1nger]

If you can pull the rock carefully, put it in a 5 gallon pail with water at a salinity of 1.040 for about a minute. Everything should scramble out of the rock. You can then pick what you want to keep.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Slowly approach it with cooking tongs

 

[GreatSouth BayReefs]

carefully remove the snails and starfish, then as @DungSl1nger said put the rock in a bucket of almost freshwater. If it doesnt come out itll die after a while and you can clean the rock out with a hose then a RO water rinse before adding back to tank

 

[CK00020]

Thanks, I think I can get the snails off, but not the starfish. I’ll save the tongs for the brats vetteguy

 

[CK00020]

I seen it again, but was not able to get a pic. It’s bigger than I thought!!

 

[TriggerFinger]

You can bait a bottle with some smelly food and catch it pretty quickly.

 

[king aiptasia]

Pics to follow when he comes back out

if you live local I'll gladly take him off your hands lol. otherwise bait him or use the salt trick mentioned earlier, depends how daring you are because they can nip you

 

[CK00020]

Well I dipped the rock for five min in 1.040, lots of brittles, no bobbit. I know there is a spaghetti worm in there also, so now I try the bottle trap?

 

[DungSl1nger]

Well I dipped the rock for five min in 1.040, lots of brittles, no bobbit. I know there is a spaghetti worm in there also, so now I try the bottle trap?

Yep if you have a smart water bottle (long skinny) use that put the holes toward the bottom of the body and the food at the top. So the worm hast to put its whole body in the bottle.

This one ended up stretching from the food at the cap, through the bottle and straw and still had a hold of the rock. I couldn’t pull it out with out breaking it.

 

[NashobaTek]

Are you sure it's not a bristle worm?

 

[NashobaTek]

Are you sure it's not a bristle worm?

 

[sfin52]

If you can pull the rock carefully, put it in a 5 gallon pail with water at a salinity of 1.040 for about a minute. Everything should scramble out of the rock. You can then pick what you want to keep.

There was a post of a person looking for Bobbitt worms on here you maybe able to give it away.

 

[DungSl1nger]

There was a post of a person looking for Bobbitt worms on here you maybe able to give it away.

They are dead now 2 were close to 5 inches in length before they stretched. One I couldn’t get out of the rock so I left the rock in an empty bucket for killing my wrasse.

 

[sfin52]

Understand

 

[CK00020]

No it’s not a bristle, thanks for the tips. I positioned the rock so I can get at the worm easier and have the tongs ready in case I see it

 

[king aiptasia]

Yep if you have a smart water bottle (long skinny) use that put the holes toward the bottom of the body and the food at the top. So the worm hast to put its whole body in the bottle.

This one ended up stretching from the food at the cap, through the bottle and straw and still had a hold of the rock. I couldn’t pull it out with out breaking it.

thats a Eurythoe not a bobbit

 

[king aiptasia]

No it’s not a bristle, thanks for the tips. I positioned the rock so I can get at the worm easier and have the tongs ready in case I see it

any chance you live in jersey?

 

[Jeffcb]

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