My encounter with a Bobbit!
So I found a bobbit worm in our 65g saltwater aquarium. It crawled out of a rock that I was picking up. I feel like I handled the situation well. While bobbit is kind of an adorable name, everything else about the bobbit worm is creepy AF. Except maybe its skin. Its skin is like an iridescent rainbow brown color, which is cool as shit. So he crawls out of the rock and at first I think it’s a centipede. I kinda scream and drop the rock and I’m like WHAT IS THIS HUSBAND?! He thought it looked like a centipede too! But this thing is like the killer centipede of the ocean! I kind of wanted to touch it, and I asked my husband if I could cuz I’m weird and he’s like no don’t touch that! Well good thing I didn’t because apparently this bobbit worm has paralyzing spikeys all over his body and his bite can paralyze you as well. His bite can also cut its prey in half. So basically a horror movie is unfolding in my house. But not really cuz this worm was really chill. He crawled out of the rock a little more and I used chopsticks to get him out all the way. As I pulled him out, his body just kept coming out and coming out so more. This creature of the deep had to be like three feet long, and I think he was a baby one! Bobbit worms can get up to eight feet I believe. When I finally got him all the way out I put him in a container to examine him. He just kind of crawled around and was really shy of the flashlight I was looking at him with, which makes sense because he’s nocturnal. He had five thick antenna, which is kind of cute too because those are his feelers. He never tried to bite us and I feel bad because we ended up flushing him down the toilet. We didn’t want to keep a paralyzing worm in the house. I wish we could have done something better for the little guy. And you’ve been watching way too many horror movies if you think he’s gonna survive in freshwater and come back up the toilet and chomp our booties.
Anyway, as weird as this sounds, he was pretty inspiring. We had this creature, who comes out at night and paralyzes and cuts fish in half living in our house for a year that we didn’t even know about. I feel like he was a message, saying that there was something dark in my life that I didn’t know about, but now it has come to light and I can get rid of it. So I’m grateful for this little bobbit worm coming into my life. Thank you bobbit worm. I think one day I may name a pet after you, because Bobbit is just too damn cute.