Huge bristle worm or something nastier?

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Possibly a bobbit worm
 
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I was originally thinking bobbit but it doesn't really look like the pics I'm finding online. This one's arms are more like bristles and the head is shaped differently. Whatever it is I actually have a couple of them.. probably more I don't know about and they're big.... up to 6".
 

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I was originally thinking bobbit but it doesn't really look like the pics I'm finding online. This one's arms are more like bristles and the head is shaped differently. Whatever it is I actually have a couple of them.. probably more I don't know about and they're big.... up to 6".
It’s going to be in the family of eunicidae, Marphysa Sanguinea has bristles for example.
 

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Send em packin!
 

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I was originally thinking bobbit but it doesn't really look like the pics I'm finding online. This one's arms are more like bristles and the head is shaped differently. Whatever it is I actually have a couple of them.. probably more I don't know about and they're big.... up to 6".
Not a Bobbit. I hope. Those scare me.
 

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Just saw a video of a Bobbit worm try to take out a porcupine fish. It failed. But it DID get a scorpion fish. Ocean inhabitants are NO JOKE man!
 

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