Giant sea worm discovered in aquarium tank.

[Demon-Xanth]

...sucks to be the person that "discovered" the permenant numbness aspect.

 

[dabuddha]

*shudder*

 

[ggnl]

Barry the nightmare inducing seaworm. That would make for a good childrens show.

 

[illusion88]

It seemed like they didn't know too much about the worm. Is it some kind of new species?

 

[racolvin]

good lord ... why even leave it alive? what good could it serve in an aquarium?

 

[bignateyk]

NUKE IT FROM ORBIT

 

[Braznor]

Does it produce the spice?

 

[Crono]

What's the width or weight of it? 4 feet is long, but it's hard to tell how thick the thing is just from the pictures.

"The tropical worm is covered in thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness"

Scary :shocked:

 

[ballmode]

KILL IT

 

[SunnyD]

I for one welcome our new bristly numbness-inducing giant seaworm overlords.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Does it produce the spice?

I herd you leik the worms

 

[trmiv]

There have been much larger ones found in other reef aquariums.

EDIT: Here you go 6 footer found in 500 gallon system.

 

[DrawninwarD]

Permanent numbness? I'd like to know more about this worm and what type of toxin it uses to do such a thing. Love this comment at the bottom of the article:

"dose it kill human. omg it really long. it looks like the anacoda"

 

[YoungGun21]

DO NOT WANT

 

[spidey07]

Bristle worm? Yeah, they can get huge and they mostly come out at night...mostly.

It does suck when you get stung by one.

 

[amdhunter]

OH, so that's where my penis went.

 

[AstroManLuca]

oh god it's coming to eat my soul

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Does it produce the spice?

😀

And why kill it? That thing is a hell of a spectacle!

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
OH, so that's where my penis went.

Your penis has numbing bristles? No wonder the chicks don't dig you :^P

 

[sdifox]

neurotoxin huh... I bet some cosmetic firm buys it up and produce a new version of botox.

 

[HN]

'That worm must have obliterated the traps. The bait was full of hooks which he must have just digested.'

aww hell naw

 

[guitarslingerchris]

This creeped me right the fuck out when I read about it a few days ago.

 

[Kelvrick]

Sweet, just forwarded this around the office

 

[Rubycon]

Cook it up

Have to wonder watt it tastes like. 😉

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: trmiv
There have been much larger ones found in other reef aquariums.

EDIT: Here you go 6 footer found in 500 gallon system.

I remember reading about that one. Imagine finding that in your fishtank at home.