Cornish giant worm has a friend - in Atlanta and he is bigger
5:10pm Monday 21st December 2009
By Stephen Ivall »
A report on this site of a giant seaworm called Barry which found its way to the Sealife Centre in Newquay in the Autumn helped a couple thousands of miles away in Atlanta.
”Thank you for writing about the giant sea worm in Cornwall,” said Carey Sipp Kameika from “Your story helped so much as I explained what was living in our tank to my husband and the guys who came to extract our worm. Our worm is like Barry, only longer. It is six feet!
We were "de-wormed" by a private aquarium servicing company in the Atlanta area. Our worm was about six feet long. It broke in half, however, as it was being moved from the net to the transport tank.”
Apparently Carey’s worm came in on some rock that had been in friend's tank for many, many years.
“The first time we saw it we were shocked,” she said.
“Our tank is just 95 gallons. Our creature chomped through several chunks of valuable coral each night and also took out a couple of small, beloved fish as well as a couple of valuable crabs. I believe it was dormant for the first few months the rock was in our tank, but when it "woke up" it woke up hungry.”
The Atlanta worm is called Carl.
“Like marine creature lovers at Cornwall, I do not want our worm destroyed (it did break in half when it was captured, but we were told that it did that in much the same way a lizard sheds its tail to get away from a predator, and that it is likely that the worm will grow another head. Right now it is "parked" at the fish store and they are caring for it until we get it placed at an appropriate marine research facility or at the Georgia Aquarium. We are hoping the Georgia Aquarium will want it, though we have yet to hear back from them.”
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