Pistol Shrimp vs Bristle Worm vs Serpent Starfish

[javahart007]

@joe0813 do you know anything about marine systems? Bristle worms are part of the cuc

[nitrobutane]

RRRRAAAAAAA!!! the only reason I FOUND this video was to watch some PISTOL SHRIMP AWESOMENESS!!!! and it was just sitting there... contemplating its navel? i dunno lol

[joe0813]

why do you want a bristle worm in your tank. and not try and trap it and remove it

[mythplatypuspwned]

xD

[loiuykidd1]

i suggest you take the worm out it can it your small fish

[santorian123]

can you put backgroud music please.......

[undergroundmasterrr]

hot aquatic groping action 0_o

[theif519]

I wonder what would happen if it snapped if it was outside of the tank...

[singasadsong]

that was definately a finger... or a mini sized penis

[CHASAZAC]

It all happened too quickly

[SpearWieldingOctopus]

EPIC CLASH OF THE INVERTEBRATES

[rytmen]

best video on youtube, i dont even know how i ended up here.

[941254]

The worm was like "Oh I'm too fast for you bitchass mofos!"

The shrimp was like "No you ain't biatch you suck shit! Literally..."

Then the star was like "It's MINE BITHES HAHAHA" !

[jburch80]

imagine if it had two of those claws

[SteveFu]

not trying to be a dick but, how do you not know what is in your tank?

[esnyder77]

@SteveFu

Because all that stuff was hiding in the pores in the liverock when I put it in the tank.

[erickbodom10v312]

@SteveFu haha i was about to say the same thing, but thats a reasonable answer

[esnyder77]

@SteveFu

Dick

[charliegrs]

@SteveFu When you put live rock in a tank, you never know what might be living in it. And you might not see it for months.

[tammmmyr]

because bristle worms, serpent stars, pistol (and other) shrimp commonly hitchhike into the tank inside the live rock.

[TheAzv3]

This was painfully boring.

[esnyder77]

@TheAzv3

Sorry. I thought it was cool.

[Spaceshotx7]

was the noise the pistol shrimp was making very loud and earsplitting like a riffle gunshot?

[esnyder77]

@Spaceshotx7

No. But it might be that loud if you had your head in the tank.

[jacktheripperrules]

@esnyder77 u should make a video of that

[jasonjapi]

@Spaceshotx7 it was the video effect? on the other video?

[EdTheBadass]

it would be awesome if they had both claws as pistols and would shoot their enemy or prey several times :D

just like good old western movie

[darcflame37]

uhh! wtf. chill with that gay SH** man , there are kids on youtube

[drago1uk2000]

It's nature, grow up.

[darcflame37]

@drago1uk2000 oh look, another queer

[drago1uk2000]

@darcflame37 enjoy your ban.

[cladimere]

Dude that's sick.

[aznredragon629]

looks like their food is a finger..

[furvert101]

i was thinking more along the lines of a detachable penis... haha

[irkekler123]

wtf is this crap

[esnyder77]

@irkekler123

Thanks for your imput.

[GraphicAbility]

imput is not a word

[esnyder77]

Thanks for your -input-

Missed that one.

[iceman0124]

LR hitch hikers of the unwanted kind are very common, especialoly with aqucultered rock and or rock from an LFS with a big "cured" rock bin, the only way to be sure is to eiter kill off as many inverts as you can via medication or the most common practice by die hard reefers with thousand of $ in livestock is bleaching all new rock. Mantis shrimp are very common, as well as carribean pistol shrimp, both not very reef safe at all, not to mention poly clad flatworms and other nasties.

[DeathWing789]

Lol its very rare that you ever get something coming in with the live rock. And if you're really worried, just ask for cured rock, i got a lost of it and the only thing i have in my tank is tiny white creatures about 0.5mm in legnth.

[esnyder77]

Sounds kind or boring if you ask me.

[esnyder77]

I looked at the Eunicid worms and thats not it. What had my fish looks like angel hair pasta. It has a bunch of this pasta stuff spread out all over the sand. My fish was just hanging by one piece.

[esnyder77]

Yea the thing that was holding my fish is different that the things in the video, after closer inspection. The one holding my fish seems to have many tenicles or worm looking appendages comeing from one central location.

The worms in the video just come out of tubes in the sand.

I am now missing a blue chromis.

[krshlln300]

The tentacles actually belong to whats commonly referred to a glass anemone due to its transparent color. They are extremely common in live rock and some coral. They reproduce by budding and the best way to rid these from your tank is to inject calcite into the central tube of each anemone with a syringe such as you would find in any pharmacy for children's medicine.

[iamwjv]

Best way to get rid of aitpasia is to get the matted file fish, also known as the aitpasia eating file fish. Sorry for the spelling. I got a couple of these critters and all the glass anemones were gone, and they didn't harm my bubble anemone. They don't bother other fish, and my other fish didn't bother them.

[sleepsong]

What's the movement on the bottom of your tank? Are those blackworms?

[esnyder77]

I dont know what those are, they have always been there, they come out at night or when food is present.

[biowerks]

The movement on the bottom is a Terebellidae (spaghetti worm) or some type of Eunicid.

[esnyder77]

The other night I turned on the lights when the room was pitch black and one of those worms was holding a blue chromis. The fish was about 8 in from the bottom tethered. After a couple of seconds he escaped. Weird.

[biowerks]

If it is capturing your fish then it is a Eunicid. They can be deadly fish catchers. I would try to remove it with some forceps if I were you.

[BiffBallbag]

Serves him right, the Worm was talkin' shit

[Darthpaul2003]

Damn E... you might as well cancel your cable service. You got Discovery Channel right there... live!!!

[esnyder77]

This is all your fault.  You better hope you dont ever run into my wife!