Bobbit Worm In Fish Tank

The bobbit worm is a worm weaponised.

Bobbit worm in fish tank. Sand strikers also known as bobbit worms are primitive looking creatures that lack eyes or even a brain. It is believed the bobbit worm got into the tank in a piece of live rock and had been living off cockles and shrimp as no fish had gone missing. Staff at maidenhead aquatics in woking surrey had noticed. Found in warmer oceans around the world it buries itself into sediment leaving only its mouth exposed with its huge scissor like jaws open wide.

This creature came in some live rock bought from a local fish shop. Biologists often use the terms benthos particularly for invertebrates such as shellfish crabs crayfish sea anemones starfish snails bristleworms and sea cucumbers and benthivore or benthivorous for fish and invertebrates that feed on material from the bottom. It lives mainly in the atlantic ocean but can also be found in the indo pacific ocean area. If a fish should accidentally brush past one of them it has mere milliseconds to flee.

The bobbit worm s razor sharp mouthparts strike with such. A bottom feeder is an aquatic animal that feeds on or near the bottom of a body of water. I ve heard of this happening in several public aquariums before and the only way to find the cause of the deaths was a total tear down of the tank thus revealing the rather large and creepy culprits. This species is an ambush predator and hunts by burrowing its whole body in soft sediment on the ocean floor and waits until nearby prey is picked up on one.

A man could not believe his eyes when a giant bobbit worm akin to a sea monster emerged from behind a rock in his fish tank after hiding there for two years. Had to split rock to catch him. Caught this bobbit in action keep an eye on bottom right of the video. Five antennae protruding from its head act like tripwires.

In the wild the worms use pincers in their mouths. Despite this they are savage predators who shoot out grapple like hooks to reel in.