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03-17-2007, 02:38 AM
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Still Here, But Gone
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Wal-Mart State
Posts: 1,916
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Burt...we got a problem...a Graboid problem...
i was watching the movie ''Tremors last night..& i looked over at my tank & noticed this GIANT 5 inch worm pushing & grinding its way through the sand & coming up out of the ground grabbing things. i think my tank is putting on its on version of Tremors  ..LOL  what is this strange worm?
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03-17-2007, 04:12 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Can you post a larger pic? From the look of the segments it's a polychaete worm in either the family Maldanidae (bamboo worms) or Capitellidae (no common name). Both feed by selectively swallowing detritus or by swallowing mud & sand then digesting the organics.
Incidentally, Tremors would be one of my favorite movies except that all the cute worms are killed by the end. So sad......
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Cheers, Leslie
So many worms, so little time!
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03-17-2007, 08:20 PM
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Still Here, But Gone
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Wal-Mart State
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hope this aint too big
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03-17-2007, 08:31 PM
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Shinigami-sama
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Jax, Fl.
Posts: 732
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Fortunately there's a couple sequels! Hope your graboid doesn't turn into one of those a** blasters.
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03-18-2007, 01:34 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Nope, not too big, thanks. It's a capitellid. Another volunteer for your clean up crew.
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Cheers, Leslie
So many worms, so little time!
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03-19-2007, 10:50 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 3,937
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Oh, what a wonderful worm....
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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03-19-2007, 11:11 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Macon
Posts: 33
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The only cure is a stick of dynomite. Unless it's smart, then you have to make it chase you across the tank, hoping it will run into the side.
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03-19-2007, 11:14 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
Posts: 7,759
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"Everyone knows about them Earl, we just didn't tell you!"
-Val, T1
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03-20-2007, 03:06 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 80
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Cruel, you're all so cruel & callous regarding the death of those magnificant worms..... 
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Cheers, Leslie
So many worms, so little time!
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03-20-2007, 07:06 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 25,786
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There good!
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