Fire Bristle worm

[Goldmoon]

For those who might want to have a look at one of the bad bristle worm (Shot of species capable of inflicting a very painful sting):

http://www.oz.net/~vibrant/fireworm34_anilao7.html

 

[swreefer]

Don't even need to check the link. I accidently grabbed these suckers once. Hand swelled up and hurt for over a week.

 

[Goldmoon]

Is that what you may call a *Learn on the field* thing??
Ouch.. I am glad my husby does most of the job in the aquarium.. Yesterday I was just acclimating stuff and putting the corals in the tank (until husby would find a real place to put them) and the cleaner shrimp was going on my hand like he likes to do with hubby.. hmm send me shivers... and it was only a poor shrimp!! Not sure I would like to *grab* any kind of worms.. specially not those fireworms!!

 

[swreefer]

Trust me grabbing it was not intentional. I was doing a little rearranging and wasn't looking when I was picking up some of the LR. Needless to say, I found the home of several of these nasties.

 

[teddibear703]

thanks for the lookout, i guess i'll be wearing gloves starting from now on when going into the tank. hehe