Scary...

[TimT]

Saw this on the news this morning... don't get these in your tank.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/was-an-australian-teen-eaten-by-mystery-sea-creatures-1.3535833

[Myka]

Weird! Also odd this hasn't been reported before...??

[gregzz4]

I've recycled it, but I read an article in a 2007 Coral Mag where 1 of the scientists was diving while studying a large carpet nem somewhere near Malaysia. He was attacked by amphipods living on the nem. They swarmed up from the nem and went after all his exposed skin. If someone still has the mag, the front page was something to the effect of "The Demise of Nemo?" with a pic of a perc.

[Dearth]

Just another thing to turn a person off about the ocean

As to these guys there was a story out of Indonesia a couple of years ago where local children were being bit and attacked by unknown creatures that left little holes in their bodies no cause was ever found. Could be these critters

[kyl]

Where's that Rivermonsters guy when you need him!

[Bblinks]

Pretty cool but disturbing. Think twice before I let anymore pods into the tank. :neutral:

[msjboy]

Here is an actual video that the parent took from a sample of captured critters.... seems the blood would not coagulate with the pricked bites just like a leeches' bite.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b5_1502093699

[kien]

Killer amphipods ?? Next we'll hear about some poor soul dragged down into a dark cave by a wild bristle worm. :surprise: #RevengOfTheCleanUpCrew

[rsisvixen]

Thats what people get for dumping stuff in the ocean, mutant bristle worms :P

[TimT]

In the early 90's I was growing Caulerpa paspaloides commercially. The guy I was working with started telling me this story about these bristle worms that would swim up from the bottom and then burrow into you and go for your heart. He's telling me this while I have both arms in the tank... you can guess what happened next. After the halides stopped hissing from water hitting them and he stopped laughing I figured out it was all a big joke. Maybe he was ahead of his time for the mutant bristleworms???

[Dearth]

In the early 90's I was growing Caulerpa paspaloides commercially. The guy I was working with started telling me this story about these bristle worms that would swim up from the bottom and then burrow into you and go for your heart. He's telling me this while I have both arms in the tank... you can guess what happened next. After the halides stopped hissing from water hitting them and he stopped laughing I figured out it was all a big joke. Maybe he was ahead of his time for the mutant bristleworms???

That would of been priceless if it had been recorded for posterities sake

[titus]

Hello

Sounds like those stories of people eating sashimi and worms are found in brain.

Titus

[TimT]

Not just Sashimi but undercooked pork as well.

[DKoKoMan]

:sick:

[MarieH]

I read the story online and I have started a 3g picotope in which the pods are rampant due to no fish. Any small invert that eats them? I was thinking of adding some hungry lps. I have a 3 head candycane that might eat a couple..

[duncangweller]

Maybe someone with a skinny mandarin could help you if you were interested in adding a fish

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[duncangweller]

Oops, just realized how small the tank was. Never mind me

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[MarieH]

I think its going to be a mini maxi anenome and a porcelain crab zoas, and softies lol and lots of amphipods! I did see them knock off a few yellow sun polyps I once had over several days, the colony gone. I can imagine a swarm of them.