*blocks your fun scuba trip*

*eats everybody in your saltwater tank*

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*swims around*

>>2376502
angery

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pfft scuba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4J5QDQeA4

Nature is a cold, cruel bitch.

>>2376500
>Removes finger

>>2376502
It would actually be pretty cool to have a bobbit tank
Get a custom rock with a few different holes, made of clear acrylic or something and try to transplant a few of them into it.
They probably don't move much even inside their holes, but they've got really neat coloration, and if you've ever wanted an intimidating supervillian office but think sharks are overplayed, you could definitely do worse than rainbow guillotine worms occasionally reaching out and cutting a fish in half.

>>2376500
Their eyes see in 4 dimensions.
Height
Width
Depth
Temperature.

Yep. Them little bastards can see heat.

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>>2376762
>little

>>2376543
>Teleports from under you
Pssh... nothin' personnel... fish

Anybody have the link to that thread with the guy battling one of these in his tank?
IIRC he eventually resorted feeding it cement filled shrimp with glass shards, ended up cutting it in half, and it still didn't die.

>>2376833
http://www.michiganreefers.com/forums/advanced-topics/84173-bobbit-worm-chronicles.html

>>2376843
Thanks mate

>>2376762
>implying temperature is a dimension
what preschool do you go to, anon?

I hate worms so much, they are just so creepy

and the worst part is you know all planets in the universe that have multi cellular organisms are guaranteed to have worms

>>2377199
Keep it up, Mr Man and see how funny you look arguing symantics with NO FUCKING FINGERS!!!

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>>2376503
>>2376515
*extends after you*

>>2377199
I assumed, wrongly, that you would be able to grasp the concept of "dimensions" easier than the concept of wavelengths light polarization and Stokes parameters.
That, and I posted >>2376762
drunk.

>>2376795
>not knowing the mantis shrimp

>>2377381
OPs picture is a bobbit worm though

>>2376500
>>2376500
In what way? You know they're thinner than earthworms right?

>>2377381
>confusing a bobbit worm for a mantis shrimp

They literally look nothing alike.

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>>2376843
>Feed it expanding glue, shards of glass, and poison
>Wrestle it multiple times
>Pull it in half
>It lives on

>>2376762
I can see 6 dimensions.
Height
Width
Depth
Red
Green
Blue

Yep. I can see color.

Anyway, temperature and heat are not the same thing. Temperature is molecular energy in an object, or some shit like that, while heat is molecular energy moving from one thing/fluid to a colder thing/fluid

>>2376500
>*blocks your fun scuba trip*

>*fires spear gun point blank*

>>2377379
>I was just drunk

is that a new variant of the "just pretending to be retarded"?

>>2376743
I agree that it would be cool. My local aquarium has a bobbit worm tank which is basically just a slice of perspex with a branching burrow/tunnel drilled into it and a little crawling space on top. Just like a kid's ant farm. The worm seems content to chill in the tunnels all day and the perspex grants perfect visibility.

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>>2376843
>gets blessed with a beautiful rare bobbit worm
>tortures and kills it to preserve some gay ass fish

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>>2377375
AAHHHHHH *GASPS* AAAAHHHHH

Fun fact that you may all know already, the Bob bit worm is name after Lorena Bobbit; the woman who cut of her husband's penis after finding out he cheated on her. Just some food for thought.

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>>2376500
*Wiggles*

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>>2378420
scaleworms are cool.

>>2378288
he didn't kill it to preserve only the fish, most of it was for the coral. the bobbit worm EATS THROUGH SOLID CORAL and that shit is not cheap.

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>>2378420
*WRIGGLES behind u*

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>>2378468
Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You are! Yes!

>>2378420
what... is.. that?

>>2378573
Eulagisca gigantea.

http://www.deepseanews.com/2012/07/new-nightmare-fuel-the-giant-scaleworm-eulagisca/

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>>2378544
pet me too daddy

>>2376843
Did he ever manage to kill it? I read for like 30 minutes, realized how much I had left, and gave up

>>2378642
Yes. He fed it shrimp stuffed with glue and glass shards.

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>>2378642
He didn't. It survived this >>2378652 as well as having part of it ripped off twice. Eventually he took the rocks apart and caught it, after which it was put on display in a fish store. Still alive and well.

>>2378440
Corals are even gayer. I'd certainly rather have a giant monster worm in my tank than some fucking coral.

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This thread is a gold mine for newfags like myself who had no fucking idea creatures like these existed 15 minutes ago.

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>>2378673
Hi, anon. You like spiders?

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>>2378675 Indeed. I'm contemplating whether to get a Tarantula after my bird died.

>>2376843
>Can't cut him in two because they are segmented worms. Cut him in two and now you have two.

Holy shit, that guy is retarded.

>>2378683
If it actually worked like that it would be scary as shit

>>2378685
who would win: a stick vs. a bobbit worm

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>>2378683 He never claimed to be the brighest lamp.

>>2378688
>Hobbit worm cuts stick in half
>Now 2 sticks
Stick win every time

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>>2378695
>hobbit worm

>>2378683
nah man it won't work. Only the head end can regenerate. The tail will just flail around for a while and eventually rot away.

>>2378685
To be fair, while the the whole "cut a worm in two= two worms" myth is just that. It is possible for the section containing the head to fully recover from being cut in half, depending on where exactly it's body was severed.

>>2378661
>Still alive and well.

>Mine is thankfully dead. They kept him for awhile at Choice Aquariums then they put him in Formaldehyde and ended up giving him to a biology student when they closed the store.

>I never tried gorilla glue but I would have!!! My guess, anything that eats SPS like it was ice cream and had no issues with broken glass probably would have no issue with anything!!!

>>2376543
>those glass shattering sounds

why

>>2378963
Didn't read to there. Why the fuck did they put him in formaldehyde?

>>2378420
Cool never seen one of these before....

Jesus christ tho.

>>2376502
*gets cut and half and multiplies*
IT WAS NOT AN ILLUSION

>>2378544
>Bare arms
Truly, this man is fearless or insane.

Does the dangit bobbit have any natural predators?

>>2378468
>>2378544
Fisher anon here. Once I caught one of these by mistake and tried to pet it. It tied itself into a knot and then splashed slime in my eye. Hurt like a bitch for days.

>>2379612
This horror from the deep, maybe having been hauled from the gloom.... it is a optimistic and laid back beast now here in this environment so different from its home. I bet it fancys a pet. Maybe a boop.

>>2379612
I heard this guy larry was a fun guy to hang out with. So i droped by his house gave him some food then tied him up and dragged him to my planet , i think he was having trouble breathing the whole time and kept flicking me off. Larry is not as advertised guys.

>>2379644
>>2379646
I'm fully aware that I was being retarded. I needed to get the hook out of its mouth anyway. I threw it back and it went off happily into the deep.

>>2379612
Be happy thats all it did, and it didn't rip your arm half off.

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>>2376543
>glass breaks

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*Blocks your nerves*

>>2379776
Why are they such fucking assholes? They already have a huge-ass shell. Do they really need to *blocks your nerves* too?

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>>2379413
Probably invert-eating reef dwelling fish, like triggers or groupers, but the worms very rarely come out of their holes. When they do it's generally just to grab something. They burrow very fast and can churn right through rock.

But there are some fish that have been observed mobbing their burrows like birds. http://www.livescience.com/56209-fish-spit-at-monstrous-sarlacc-worms.html

>>2379792
>monstrous sarlacc worms
Good God the sensationalism. Still it's a cool article, thanks anon.

>>2379796
The "I fucking love science XD" crowd can only speak in star wars and harry potter metaphors. Do your kids a favor and expose them to actual literature so it doesn't happen to them.

>>2378675
that's overpowered goddamn.

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>>2380013

>>2376543
>oh god why did i watch this naked

>>2380023
>Swiggity Swooty, I'm living in that booty

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*eats your tongue*

fuck the ocean and everything that lives in it

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>>2376543
>glass sounds

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>>2379854
Ogre spiders are my favorite. They're the spooky scary mr. Skeltal of the arachnids.

>>2380305
I tried to find the bbc nature doc bit with Dave Attenborough calmly narrating a bobbit devouring half the Australian coast but copyright claims put an end to that...

>>2380101
Why is it so smug

>>2380305
is that the save icon from Fable on the side of his face

>>2380023
Does that caterpillar turn into a butterfly?

>>2379612
most colorful fish (mainly reef dwellers) have some form of toxic or distasteful mucus covering their skin thats probably what that irritant was

>>2378544
good snek

>>2379231
americans can't watch videos of nature if there aren't overblown sound effects to make it seem like an action movie.

>>2380023
What is that thing?

>>2381907
Sea cucumber

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>>2376843
A man poisons, feeds glass, feeds super glue, rips a quarter of it off, then smashes a rock at 2am just to remove this horrible creature from his home aquarium.
>Found 3 quarts of epoxy chunks and coral shards in the beast's lair afterwards.

I shit you not, this creature is nightmare fuel.
>Can grow to well over 6ft long.
>Can fit into a 1 inch hole.
>It can cut fingers off with ease.
>Can consume poison, glass, glue, and epoxy and continue to thrive.
>It never stops.
>It never ends.

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>>2381986
>Can grow to well over 6ft long.

I think 10 ft is the average actually

>>2380388
>Why is it so smug
successful isopod is successful.

>>2381998
10ft is the max

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>>2380101
Isopoda is cool

>>2382122
>would carry that bulky phone protector EVERYWHERE.

>>2382153
It sucks they were a limited run that got sold out almost immediately.

>>2382155
Fucking figures.

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>>2382184
This one is still around and is actually small enough to fit in a large pocket.
There is a vaguely similar iphone 6 equivalent, but even more simplified with ugly cheap-looking eyes.

>>2376843
>>2376795
tfw
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/the-terrifying-bobbit-worm-has-a-huge-ancient-cousin/

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>>2376843
>>2376843
>$#!^ he is still alive!

>>2379250
That's what they use to preserve dead things for study/collection

>>2380023
ALL THE WAY THROUGH

Why didn't he just grab it with some locking vicegrips and leave the vicegrips on it?

Or just keep trying to murder it, attrition it to death

It should not be able to heal faster than one can murder

>>2382263 https://youtu.be/TDsoOQNZRCY

You do not understand how hard those things hold on to their burrows.

>>2382282
No, I don't mean pull it out. Just fucking put some vicegrips or a bolt through it's face so it can't eat

>>2382283
Ah, my bad.

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>>2378544

>>2382283
but he couldn't even get close to it cuz it retreats.

>>2380013
what is this qtie

>>2382327
Hooded sea slug I believe.

>>2379788
They're slow as fuck predators. They need to be able to take out their fast moving fishy prey as quickly as possible.

>>2376543
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDsoOQNZRCY&ab_channel=Trapula

>>2378683
>marines vs stick

>>2382308
kek

>>2380023
W-why does this give me an erection?

>>2382260
I know but why did they kill it?

>>2378680
Spiders are good boys

>>2376843
holy shit why did I read this

>>2384447
To send it back to the pit of hell from where it came

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>Tekeli-li Tekeli-li!