Giant sea worm discovered in aquarium tank.

[CPA]

Originally posted by: IGBT
sea worms show up in shushi too.

Another reason why I will never eat sushi.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I smell Tremors 4!!!

Don't you mean Tremors 5?

Tremors 4

 

[jlee]

oh my.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaete

the actual worm is a Bobbit Worm

Thank you. I can't stand it when an article such as this doesn't even bother to give people the common name much less the scientific name.

Edit: Further research.

This worm get's its nickname from Lorena Bobbit:Q

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaete

the actual worm is a Bobbit Worm

Thank you. I can't stand it when an article such as this doesn't even bother to give people the common name much less the scientific name.

You could just call it the Go'auld, thanks.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
what can i do to cause that fucker to go extinct?

eat more shshi and keep you worms to your self.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: ballmode
KILL IT

Please do.

 

[Baked]

Mmmmm sea worm sushi.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Kaido
I smell Tremors 4!!!

Don't you mean Tremors 5?

Tremors 4

regardless, Tremors 3 was the best.
Ass Blasters FTW! :laugh:

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Adul
jesus, that one ugly ass worm.

on another note, couldn't that permanent numbness thing be put to medical use

I'm with you, Adul.

I know lots of people who would pay for permanent numbness in some areas, pain is a bad thing.

 

[sdifox]

how on earth did that worm develop in the tank without being discovered til now?

 

[BillGates]

That last picture reminds me of that aquarium screensaver from back in the day.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: sdifox
how on earth did that worm develop in the tank without being discovered til now?

They mostly come out at night...mostly.

But seriously you never see the whole worm, normally just the damage done by it. At night you can sometimes catch them poking their head out and munching on stuff but you have no idea how big they actually are because most of the worm is buried in the nooks and crannies of the rock/reef.

Whenever you build a reef aquarium all sorts of "hitchhikers" or weird creatures buried in the rock you use that's taken from the sea come along with it. I had all kinds of bristle worms in mine but they were never more than 8 inches long.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Here's someone handling one bare handed.

 

[SwiftWind]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Cook it up

Have to wonder watt it tastes like.

hahaha the farting hotdog made my day

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT

 

[StevenYoo]

gah that thing gives me the jibblies

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: bignateyk
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT

It's the only way.

To be sure.

 

[thirdeye]

If you told me that Satan himself shit that thing out, I wouldn't be even a little surprised.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: sdifox
how on earth did that worm develop in the tank without being discovered til now?

They mostly come out at night...mostly.

But seriously you never see the whole worm, normally just the damage done by it. At night you can sometimes catch them poking their head out and munching on stuff but you have no idea how big they actually are because most of the worm is buried in the nooks and crannies of the rock/reef.

Whenever you build a reef aquarium all sorts of "hitchhikers" or weird creatures buried in the rock you use that's taken from the sea come along with it. I had all kinds of bristle worms in mine but they were never more than 8 inches long.

I am just surprised, I thought they had to clean the tank and stuff...

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Here's someone handling one bare handed.

I'm sorry, you couldn't pay me enough to touch something like that. *barf*

I read the wiki article posted earlier... the way some of this family reproduce is fucking frightening.

Some of the polychaetes exhibit remarkable reproductive strategies. Some species in the genus Eunicie reproduce by a process called epitoky. For much of the year, these worms look like any other burrow dwelling polychaete, but as the breeding season approaches the worm undergoes a remarkable transformation as new, specialized segments begin to grow from its rear end until the worm can be clearly divided into two halves. The front half, the atoke, is asexual. The new rear half is responsible for breeding and it is known as the epitoke. Each of the epitoke segments is packed with eggs and sperm and on their surface they have a single eyespot. The beginning of the last lunar quarter is the cue for these animals to breed and the epitokes break free from the atokes and float to the surface. The eye spots sense when the epitoke is at the surface and the segments from millions of worms burst releasing their eggs and sperm into the water.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
If you told me that Satan himself shit that thing out, I wouldn't be even a little surprised.

I often wonder, we being the current pinnacle of the evolution of life on this planet, how venomous and spiny our primitive ancestors must have been to survive us into age after deadly age of vicious competition.

 

[daveymark]

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[AyashiKaibutsu]

I like how someone commented in that article that it should be killed as it serves no purpose... like all the other fish in an aquarium serve such a great purpose...

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Here's someone handling one bare handed.

I'm sorry, you couldn't pay me enough to touch something like that. *barf*

I read the wiki article posted earlier... the way some of this family reproduce is fucking frightening.

Some of the polychaetes exhibit remarkable reproductive strategies. Some species in the genus Eunicie reproduce by a process called epitoky. For much of the year, these worms look like any other burrow dwelling polychaete, but as the breeding season approaches the worm undergoes a remarkable transformation as new, specialized segments begin to grow from its rear end until the worm can be clearly divided into two halves. The front half, the atoke, is asexual. The new rear half is responsible for breeding and it is known as the epitoke. Each of the epitoke segments is packed with eggs and sperm and on their surface they have a single eyespot. The beginning of the last lunar quarter is the cue for these animals to breed and the epitokes break free from the atokes and float to the surface. The eye spots sense when the epitoke is at the surface and the segments from millions of worms burst releasing their eggs and sperm into the water.

Kinky.