What gives you the willies?

[SM1199]

As passionate as we all are about fish keeping, what fish/inverts/parasites/algae/filter gunk/other fish-related things give you the willies?

For some reason, the clown knifefish really freaks me out I really like the black ghost knifefish, though. Strange thing. Anchor worms also freak me out but other parasites are perfectly fine.

Idea from Rachel O'Leary who gets the willies from kuhlI loaches (I'm partial to her, she visits my LFS every so often and gives talks!)

 

[Crispii]

Seeing a fish with a missing eye socket gives me the willies.

 

[CrazedHoosier]

Seeing a fish with a missing eye socket gives me the willies.

I almost bought a honey gourami with a missing eye a week ago... I felt bad for him.

Parasitic worms coming out of a fish gives me the willies.

 

[david1978]

Sadly between my tanks and friends tanks I have seen about everything so not much in the hobby gives me the willies.

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

Seeing one of my fish on it's side, only to realize it's a SAE. Gets me every time

Followed by relief

 

[goldface]

A very bad case of hole in the head from a pair of Blood Parrots. It looked gnarly . . . Literally, the heads looked hollow inside, but they both, otherwise, behaved perfectly fine.

 

[MissNoodle]

Leeches.

I'm good with everything else you throw at me.

But if there's a leech in my tank ill salt it to the ground.

 

[aussieJJDude]

For me, it's the bobbit worms. They just look nasty and scare the daylights outta me. Nothing would be worse than finding a 3ft long bobbit in a aquarium

 

[SM1199]

Leeches.

I'm good with everything else you throw at me.

But if there's a leech in my tank ill salt it to the ground.

I don't think I have ever even thought about leeches in aquarium tanks, but it makes sense. EEK. I wouldn't like that either. I get freaked out about wading through murky lakes because of leeches.

For me, it's the bobbit worms. They just look nasty and scare the daylights outta me. Nothing would be worse than finding a 3ft long bobbit in a aquarium

I've only seen videos of these things and it blows my mind that they can go unnoticed for years while they grow multiple feet long. If I had a saltwater aquarium and I saw one in the tank, I'd probably remove all my fish and chuck the rest of the tank

 

[A201]

Getting bit! Nothing like receiving that surprise bite from a territorial Cichlid w/ teeth.
Next; knocking over or dropping big rocks while cleaning & aquascaping tanks. Scary stuff.

 

[kallililly1973]

I had a female guppy that recently sadly passed but she gave off a lot of offspring but her belly was so big it was like her skin was stretched out so far that you could see through it... it was hard to look at

 

[PascalKrypt]

I have a pretty strong stomach.

But I do have arachnophobia and the other day I went upstairs (which outside of guest lodging is mostly unused) because I have two 50 gallons in that bathroom. And there was one of those fat, size-of-your-palm black ones sitting right above the door, that I had to walk under to get in. *shudders*


Strangely the more stout ones don't scare me at all. One of my tanks was started with material from a local pond, and for a couple months there was an aquatic spider swimming around in it. Didn't bother me at all to stick my hands in the tank. (Oh, and also, leeches! But I'm not scared of those either )

 

[Basil]

Large spiders. I can handle any snake or lizard around my farm. Although, knock on wood, I’ve not encountered a copperhead. But run into a huge wolf spider and my skin crawls.
However, I’m perfectly fine sitting in my sister and BIL’s kitchen, surrounded by tarantula cages.

 

[Feohw]

I don't tend to get the willies from many aquarium related stuff. Bad dropsy has always got me a bit though. No idea why things that look worse don't get me when this does, I guess seeing my old bettas like that had its impact.

 

[PascalKrypt]

Large spiders. I can handle any snake or lizard around my farm. Although, knock on wood, I’ve not encountered a copperhead. But run into a huge wolf spider and my skin crawls.
However, I’m perfectly fine sitting in my sister and BIL’s kitchen, surrounded by tarantula cages.

So Tarantula's don't count as large spiders? >.> A cousin of mine used to keep them and nailed the old skins to the wall. The skins I could handle, the live ones not so much. Always skip that section of the reptile house in the zoo as well.

I don't think I'm going to google what a copperhead is. Though the thought of a wolf spider is scary enough.

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

So Tarantula's don't count as large spiders? >.> A cousin of mine used to keep them and nailed the old skins to the wall. The skins I could handle, the live ones not so much. Always skip that section of the reptile house in the zoo as well.

I don't think I'm going to google what a copperhead is. Though the thought of a wolf spider is scary enough.

It's a Venomous Snake right?

 

[PascalKrypt]

It's a Venomous Snake right?

Well that's what I thought, but it popped up in a story about spiders and if there is one thing I'm not googling, it is any species of spider. Because then you get previews of google s and if there is one thing I don't want to see, it is close-ups of spiders!!

 

[Sorg67]

Three foot putts that you have to play outside the hole.

 

[SM1199]

But I do have arachnophobia and the other day I went upstairs (which outside of guest lodging is mostly unused) because I have two 50 gallons in that bathroom. And there was one of those fat, size-of-your-palm black ones sitting right above the door, that I had to walk under to get in. *shudders*

This reminds me of a spider we had to deal with at work. When it started getting chilly outside and all the spiders migrated into the veterinary hospital, we all "took turns" taking them outside. We would usually find one every morning in one of the exam rooms, but they were typically pretty small and easy.

One morning, I turned on the lights and there was a MASSIVE size-of-your-hand fuzzy black spider. It wasn't fat though, just very leggy and hairy. I sighed and yelled "MATT, it's your turn!" He came around the corner and went "Oh no. I'm not going near that." So I go find Nick, and he goes "Nuh-uh, I got the last one. Go find Molly. She's not afraid of spiders." So covered the spider with a styrofoam cup and slid a clipboard underneath it and went to find Molly. She goes "You guys are ridiculous! It's not going to hurt you! My god, you're all babies..." Then while mumbling under her breath, comes over and picks up the cup and clipboard. Well, she didn't pick them up entirely at the same time, so she got a glimpse of the spider, went "EEUUGGHH," dropped it back on the floor, and had to step out to regain her composure. She eventually came back in and caught it but she wasn't happy

 

[MomeWrath]

In the aquarium, I am sad to say axolotls and aquatic frogs kind of give me the heebs. Axolotls because I feel like the gill frill is like an organ on the outside of their body. Like if I was walking around with my lungs on a necklace...and the frogs just remind me of when you find a land frog in a swimming pool - kind of sad and gross like wet bread lol.
Outside aquariums...house centipedes - or as we call them in Cackalacky "thousand-leggers"...and camel crickets.

 

[SM1199]

If any of you want to play with a fake spider instead of a real spider, here's a good website. You can change its speed, size, leg thickness and length, even its shadow, and all sorts of other things. You can drag it around by its legs and feed it. Pretty neat LOL

Scary Spider

 

[MomeWrath]

Well that's what I thought, but it popped up in a story about spiders and if there is one thing I'm not googling, it is any species of spider. Because then you get previews of google s and if there is one thing I don't want to see, it is close-ups of spiders!!

Yes a copperhead is an extremely venomous snake. Another North Carolina specialty!

 

[SM1199]

Not aquarium-related, but I found a dead squirrel body the other day while raking. It had no hair or feet or discernible facial features, and had seemingly no bone structure left. It was like a small plucked gelatin-filled chicken carcass. Really strange, freaked me out

 

[PascalKrypt]

This reminds me of a spider we had to deal with at work. When it started getting chilly outside and all the spiders migrated into the veterinary hospital, we all "took turns" taking them outside. We would usually find one every morning in one of the exam rooms, but they were typically pretty small and easy.

One morning, I turned on the lights and there was a MASSIVE size-of-your-hand fuzzy black spider. It wasn't fat though, just very leggy and hairy. I sighed and yelled "MATT, it's your turn!" He came around the corner and went "Oh no. I'm not going near that." So I go find Nick, and he goes "Nuh-uh, I got the last one. Go find Molly. She's not afraid of spiders." So covered the spider with a styrofoam cup and slid a clipboard underneath it and went to find Molly. She goes "You guys are ridiculous! It's not going to hurt you! My god, you're all babies..." Then while mumbling under her breath, comes over and picks up the cup and clipboard. Well, she didn't pick them up entirely at the same time, so she got a glimpse of the spider, went "EEUUGGHH," dropped it back on the floor, and had to step out to regain her composure. She eventually came back in and caught it but she wasn't happy

Hahaha! That story cracked me up. Poor, poor molly, though serves her right in a way for making light of you all!
I live in a forest so the daddy long-leg types would be pointless to remove. I've become desensitised to them. The fat black ones, not so much. The younger ones go into the vacuum but once or twice a year in autumn I'd find a fully grown adult somewhere. Yeeeergh. I get some help to have those removedead: I once had one of these one the backside of a piece of toilet paper (it was crouched and filled out the entire piece, it was that big). I screamed and shook the paper in my panic, trying to get it away from me. It fell into my pants.
Don't think I ever undressed that quickly. I screamed like they do in the horror movies. Was still shivering fifteen minutes later...
This was many, many years ago but I still check the backside of toilet paper unless I'm in an urban area...

Eh. I have a friend from the Caribbean, he is so used to them he just picks them up in his bare hands, talks to them like you'd do to a dog, and then releases "her" outside. The first time he did this, he turned to me and said flatly "you've no venomous spiders in this country right?" as if it was completely normal to pick up larger spiders in your palm. Geez.

 

[SM1199]

Hahaha! That story cracked me up. Poor, poor molly, though serves her right in a way for making light of you all!
I live in a forest so the daddy long-leg types would be pointless to remove. I've become desensitised to them. The fat black ones, not so much. The younger ones go into the vacuum but once or twice a year in autumn I'd find a fully grown adult somewhere. Yeeeergh. I get some help to have those removedead: I once had one of these one the backside of a piece of toilet paper (it was crouched and filled out the entire piece, it was that big). I screamed and shook the paper in my panic, trying to get it away from me. It fell into my pants.
Don't think I ever undressed that quickly. I screamed like they do in the horror movies. Was still shivering fifteen minutes later...
This was many, many years ago but I still check the backside of toilet paper unless I'm in an urban area...

Eh. I have a friend from the Caribbean, he is so used to them he just picks them up in his bare hands, talks to them like you'd do to a dog, and then releases "her" outside. The first time he did this, he turned to me and said flatly "you've no venomous spiders in this country right?" as if it was completely normal to pick up larger spiders in your palm. Geez.

I would have had the same reaction, OMG. I've had one of those big fat spiders crawl onto my leg once while I was reading. I didn't even notice it until I set the book down, saw it, and LOST it. That was a long time ago though so most of the trauma has passed

I remember one time I was at a friend's house and when I woke up, she was sitting there giggling. I asked her what was so funny, and she promptly showed me pictures on her phone of a stink bug crawling all over my face and pillow while I slept. It was gone when I woke up but I was SO freaked out.

 

[MomeWrath]

I would have had the same reaction, OMG. I've had one of those big fat spiders crawl onto my leg once while I was reading. I didn't even notice it until I set the book down, saw it, and LOST it. That was a long time ago though so most of the trauma has passed

I remember one time I was at a friend's house and when I woke up, she saw sitting there giggling. I asked her what was so funny, and she promptly showed me pictures on her phone of a stink bug crawling all over my face and pillow while I slept. It was gone when I woke up but I was SO freaked out.

Great lol. I have recurring nightmares about insects in my bed. I am sure I'll have another one now! XD

 

[Algonquin]

I'm with Magicpenny75 on the house centipedes. All those legs... ewwwwww. Pretty sure I would die if one touched me. The worst is when you kill one of them with a big shoe, and the legs that are no longer attached still move for a bit. Blech.

Spiders don't bother me though. Unless they are big, furry and on me.

 

[vyrille]

Personally I find spiders endearing, especially the teeny tiny many eyed jumping ones. I suspect the huge black ones that everyone is encountering are wolf spiders, these are harmless, but of course that doesn't help, lol. I guess the awe factor of something as huge as your hand scampering across the walls is plenty scary. I get the same effect seeing the numerous marine 'worms' while scuba diving, bristles, fanworms, several other polychaetes, annelids, etc. I am assured that only few are actually venomous, but I'm not taking chances! Especially the bobbit worm! That thing is just monstrous! I dare not get close to rock and coral crevices in fear of encountering these things!

In aquaria though, I find the empty stares of dead fish creepy. I don't know, it's just unnerving to me..

 

[PascalKrypt]

Personally I find spiders endearing, especially the teeny tiny many eyed jumping ones. I suspect the huge black ones that everyone is encountering are wolf spiders, these are harmless, but of course that doesn't help, lol. I guess the awe factor of something as huge as your hand scampering across the walls is plenty scary. I get the same effect seeing the numerous marine 'worms' while scuba diving, bristles, fanworms, several other polychaetes, annelids, etc. I am assured that only few are actually venomous, but I'm not taking chances! Especially the bobbit worm! That thing is just monstrous! I dare not get close to rock and coral crevices in fear of encountering these things!

In aquaria though, I find the empty stares of dead fish creepy. I don't know, it's just unnerving to me..

Nah, there is nothing rational about it for me, 100% pure phobia. Because other critters that look/move just like spiders (like large male mosquitos, or many-legged insects) don't bother me at all, I'd wipe them off the wall with my hands. And the short-legged ones don't bother me either, even though those are more likely to be venomous. Probably some kind of remainder from an adaptation to stay away from a particular kind of dangerous spider... maybe? I have no clue.

I would have had the same reaction, OMG. I've had one of those big fat spiders crawl onto my leg once while I was reading. I didn't even notice it until I set the book down, saw it, and LOST it. That was a long time ago though so most of the trauma has passed

I remember one time I was at a friend's house and when I woke up, she saw sitting there giggling. I asked her what was so funny, and she promptly showed me pictures on her phone of a stink bug crawling all over my face and pillow while I slept. It was gone when I woke up but I was SO freaked out.

How nice of your friend to, you know, wake you up or take the bug off instead of calmly filming it?

 

[angelcraze]

I've always liked spiders as well, they eat the other bugs like millipedes (that I actually don't like so much haha!). I had a 'pet' spider in between my kitchen windows this year. Didn't see how he would get insects to feed on, so I purposely set houseflies in his web. I looked the next day and the flies were all wrapped up and dry. Pretty cool haha!

So I guess my heebies are millipedes, earwigs, and for aquariums, i'm also a bit freaked out with kullI loaches lol!

 

[SM1199]

Personally I find spiders endearing, especially the teeny tiny many eyed jumping ones. I suspect the huge black ones that everyone is encountering are wolf spiders, these are harmless, but of course that doesn't help, lol. I guess the awe factor of something as huge as your hand scampering across the walls is plenty scary. I get the same effect seeing the numerous marine 'worms' while scuba diving, bristles, fanworms, several other polychaetes, annelids, etc. I am assured that only few are actually venomous, but I'm not taking chances! Especially the bobbit worm! That thing is just monstrous! I dare not get close to rock and coral crevices in fear of encountering these things!

In aquaria though, I find the empty stares of dead fish creepy. I don't know, it's just unnerving to me..

I also like jumping spiders. Well, not ON me... But I like watching them and letting them do their thing. I think fanworms are fascinating! Bristleworms are okay since they can be pretty, but I don't want to be near them. Yeah, bobbit worms no doubt freak me out beyond reasoning.

 

[PascalKrypt]

I've always liked spiders as well, they eat the other bugs like millipedes (that I actually don't like so much haha!). I had a 'pet' spider in between my kitchen windows this year. Didn't see how he would get insects to feed on, so I purposely set houseflies in his web. I looked the next day and the flies were all wrapped up and dry. Pretty cool haha!

So I guess my heebies are millipedes, earwigs, and for aquariums, i'm also a bit freaked out with kullI loaches lol!

I love this thing where people are freaked out by eel-like fish. My sister-in-law finds them creepy too, too bad for her I recently bought 15 kuhlI and she likes to view my tanks

Edit: More specifically, I got P. anguillaris. She must hate me now xD

 

[SM1199]

I love this thing where people are freaked out by eel-like fish. My sister-in-law finds them creepy too, too bad for her I recently bought 15 kuhlI and she likes to view my tanks

Edit: More specifically, I got P. anguillaris. She must hate me now xD

I love the eel-like loaches! They're like underwater snake noodles. I really like snakes

 

[SM1199]

Anyone heard of hagfish?

Slimed! Truck spills tons of goo-producing eels

 

[angelcraze]

I love the eel-like loaches! They're like underwater snake noodles. I really like snakes

Yeah, i'm freaked out by snakes like boas. I used to catch green grass snakes, but the way the constrictors 'hug' you makes me panic. I don't mind looking at kulis, but to clean a tank of them, I think i'd feel uncomfortable.

 

[TheFishNoob1999]

Anything lacking a defined skeleton or exoskeleton, so slimy stuff like slugs.

 

[Basil]

Well that's what I thought, but it popped up in a story about spiders and if there is one thing I'm not googling, it is any species of spider. Because then you get previews of google s and if there is one thing I don't want to see, it is close-ups of spiders!!

Sorry for the confusion!
Yes, a copperhead is a venomous snake found in the mid-Atlantic (and maybe other areas?) of the US. I had mentioned that I don’t mind snakes.
Some of his tarantulas are big and some small. However, they are all contained so they won’t surprise me lol!

 

[StarGirl]

Tank creepers= Those Planaria worms were pretty creepy. I'm glad they were NOT in my tank.

Out of tank= Bees freak me out. I turn into a ninja when they are by me. .

 

[SM1199]

Tank creepers= Those Planaria worms were pretty creepy. I'm glad they were NOT in my tank.

Out of tank= Bees freak me out. I turn into a ninja when they are by me. .

I think planaria are pretty cute with their little eye spots. They're harmless. I'm okay with slimy/smooth/long stuff like eels, loaches, slugs, snakes, earth worms, kuhlI loaches (lol). I'm NOT okay with stuff that is segmented and has a ridiculous amount of legs like bobbit worms and house centipedes.

I was perfectly fine living my life in Maine without having ever seen a house centipede. Then I moved to PA, and they wandered into our apartment every so often... If I saw one on the carpet dash to hide under the coffee table, I was OUT of the room until I could get my boyfriend to take care of it. His method was to vacuum them up with the long attachment. As such, I was terrified of using the vacuum - I don't know why. Just a very irrational fear. I always felt like it was going to crawl back down out the tube when he shut it off LOL time to move back to Maine!!

I like bees from a distance. I'm even okay with them landing on me. I get uncomfortable when they buzz very, very close to my head in and out of sight. I'm a bit more freaked out by the hornets that are way more aggressive.

 

[Feohw]

I think planaria are pretty cute with their little eye spots. They're harmless.

I find them quite cute too. Though they are harmless to fish, they aren't so harmless if you keep shrimp/snails.

 

[StarGirl]

I find them quite cute too. Though they are harmless to fish, they aren't so harmless if you keep shrimp/snails.

They break into pieces and live! Just like cat worms

 

[Feohw]

They break into pieces and live! Just like cat worms

Its pretty interesting though! Also, look at this face and tell me it isn't cute. Looks like someone stuck some googly eyes on there!

 

[SM1199]

I find them quite cute too. Though they are harmless to fish, they aren't so harmless if you keep shrimp/snails.

I meant more in the way of they're not going to jump up and bite or sting a poor unsuspecting aquarist, lol. Thanks for clarifying

 

[Guy25]

axolotls for me. I just can't figure out why people like those things SO much XD

 

[SM1199]

Surprised to see multiple people not liking axolotls. They're just cute little salamander things! They don't particularly appeal to me as pets because of their care requirements, but I understand their cuteness.

 

[SM1199]

I was just reminded of this thread last night in a not so pleasant way...

I went to bed early and fell asleep, and some time during the night, my boyfriend woke me up to tell me he saw a spider crawling on me. Now, he has night terrors at least once a week where he's convinced that he's seeing something in real life that actually isn't there. I had to get used to these two years ago so it doesn't phase me anymore - this is a very tame night terror for him. I just told him to go back to bed, as I always do.

But he insisted that it was real and he really did see it - again, I ignored this, because oftentimes his night terrors are VERY convincing to him. One time he woke me up in a panic because "a scorpion fell from the ceiling" and went so far as to ask for my phone as a flashlight and searched under the bed for it. There was no scorpion - we were in Maine, we don't have scorpions! - but he was frantic for a solid five minutes searching for that darned scorpion that he obviously never found. In the morning, he had absolutely no recollection of it. He never remembers his night terrors the next morning.

Anyway, he finally went back to bed, but at that point I was a little creeped out at the possibility so I threw that blanket off the bed and grabbed a new one. This morning, I asked him if he remembered his night terror, and he said "I told you, that wasn't a night terror. I hadn't even gone to bed yet. I walked in and there was a big brown spider that crawled from your shoulder to your feet." and then he holds his fingers about two inches apart for size. Time to wash all my blankets!!



Now if you want to talk about REALLY creepy... His actual night terrors have included screaming bloody murder that there was a guy with a gun in our doorway (too dark for me to see where he was looking), asking me in a terrifyingly calm way to please close the closet because there's a demon in there staring at him, and when we were living in college dorms, getting up and screaming whilst sprinting out of the room at 3 am down the hall into a totally different section of the building to the point I couldn't even catch up to him and others came out of their rooms to see what was wrong

 

[kallililly1973]

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I was just reminded of this thread last night in a not so pleasant way...

I went to bed early and fell asleep, and some time during the night, my boyfriend woke me up to tell me he saw a spider crawling on me. Now, he has night terrors at least once a week where he's convinced that he's seeing something in real life that actually isn't there. I had to get used to these two years ago so it doesn't phase me anymore - this is a very tame night terror for him. I just told him to go back to bed, as I always do.

But he insisted that it was real and he really did see it - again, I ignored this, because oftentimes his night terrors are VERY convincing to him. One time he woke me up in a panic because "a scorpion fell from the ceiling" and went so far as to ask for my phone as a flashlight and searched under the bed for it. There was no scorpion - we were in Maine, we don't have scorpions! - but he was frantic for a solid five minutes searching for that darned scorpion that he obviously never found. In the morning, he had absolutely no recollection of it. He never remembers his night terrors the next morning.

Anyway, he finally went back to bed, but at that point I was a little creeped out at the possibility so I threw that blanket off the bed and grabbed a new one. This morning, I asked him if he remembered his night terror, and he said "I told you, that wasn't a night terror. I hadn't even gone to bed yet. I walked in and there was a big brown spider that crawled from your shoulder to your feet." and then he holds his fingers about two inches apart for size. Time to wash all my blankets!!



Now if you want to talk about REALLY creepy... His actual night terrors have included screaming bloody murder that there was a guy with a gun in our doorway (too dark for me to see where he was looking), asking me in a terrifyingly calm way to please close the closet because there's a demon in there staring at him, and when we were living in college dorms, getting up and screaming whilst sprinting out of the room at 3 am down the hall into a totally different section of the building to the point I couldn't even catch up to him and others came out of their rooms to see what was wrong

These are the times I wish we had a Yikes emoji

 

[angelcraze]

I was just reminded of this thread last night in a not so pleasant way...

I went to bed early and fell asleep, and some time during the night, my boyfriend woke me up to tell me he saw a spider crawling on me. Now, he has night terrors at least once a week where he's convinced that he's seeing something in real life that actually isn't there. I had to get used to these two years ago so it doesn't phase me anymore - this is a very tame night terror for him. I just told him to go back to bed, as I always do.

But he insisted that it was real and he really did see it - again, I ignored this, because oftentimes his night terrors are VERY convincing to him. One time he woke me up in a panic because "a scorpion fell from the ceiling" and went so far as to ask for my phone as a flashlight and searched under the bed for it. There was no scorpion - we were in Maine, we don't have scorpions! - but he was frantic for a solid five minutes searching for that darned scorpion that he obviously never found. In the morning, he had absolutely no recollection of it. He never remembers his night terrors the next morning.

Anyway, he finally went back to bed, but at that point I was a little creeped out at the possibility so I threw that blanket off the bed and grabbed a new one. This morning, I asked him if he remembered his night terror, and he said "I told you, that wasn't a night terror. I hadn't even gone to bed yet. I walked in and there was a big brown spider that crawled from your shoulder to your feet." and then he holds his fingers about two inches apart for size. Time to wash all my blankets!!



Now if you want to talk about REALLY creepy... His actual night terrors have included screaming bloody murder that there was a guy with a gun in our doorway (too dark for me to see where he was looking), asking me in a terrifyingly calm way to please close the closet because there's a demon in there staring at him, and when we were living in college dorms, getting up and screaming whilst sprinting out of the room at 3 am down the hall into a totally different section of the building to the point I couldn't even catch up to him and others came out of their rooms to see what was wrong

I don't mean to laugh, but it did make me chuckle. I'm sure it's been quite the roller coaster ride to get used to that.

My hubby doesn't sleep walk, but he often talks and shouts in his sleep. He never remembers anything he says. I laugh all the time hearing what he has to say in the middle of his sleep. It doesn't usually make much sense, and sometimes it's not even English, but the funniest time was him screaming out a recipe (I think) or giving someone cooking directions angrily like Gordon Ramsey haha! He was watching a lot of H***'s Kitchen lol!

Why did he wake you up though? He could've just took the spider away and told you in the morning?

 

[Bat26]

Medusa worms. I'm not scared of much as far as living things go, spiders, snakes, rats (I actually love snakes and rats, and I'm getting to where spiders are pretty cool to me), etc. None of them scare me. But if I see a wasp, bee, (heaven forbid) yellow jacket, I'm out. Medusa worms are on a whole other level. I'm not even scared of them, they're just so creepy to me. Something about the worm-like body and the little tentacle looking things just... I can't.

 

[aquafrogg]

Spiders any larger than an ant scare me. Super tiny baby spiders? No big deal. Slightly larger spiders? Nope. Nope nope nope.

I think shrimp are creepy because of their legs. They remind me of spiders. And their faces look like goblins. Don’t tell my amano I said that though.