Giant Photo-Worm

## Description

### Appearance

**The Giant Photo-Worm (Photovermis praegrandis)** is an annelid that is abnormally large compared to others. It is a species in the genus **Photovermis**. The Giant Worm consists of 40 Cells, Most consist of Photocytes, Flagellocytes and Stereocytes. Giant Photo-Worms possess many segmented body parts to them which all do the same job. Since it has 16 Photocytes, they prefer to live in substrates with large amounts of space (Minimum substrate size: 3.0) and with lots of sunlight. They have multi-coloured Flagellocytes (16 in total) which performed the same tasks as all the other segments. The remaining 8 Stereocytes give commands to each segments' Flagellocytes which keeps the organism away from walls. There is a chance that a Giant Photo-Worm will eventually hit a Wall but it will immediately run away from it on sight. They are giant and have lots of segments with alot of nutrients, which makes a Giant Photo-Worm a great food source for larger predators, such as **Engulfing Jaws**, and a giant buffet for smaller predators such as **Microsharks**. They are usually solitary and don't reproduce often. Their population may be small, but considering the fact that these are surprisingly fast giants with massive bodies, it makes sense they don't reproduce a lot, since their offspring need alot of energy to thrive in their environment.

### Predators

Giant Photo-Worms have many predators, since they are such easy targets, they can outrun some but they usually end up as a giant dead carcass of hundreds of nutrients, which is what all predators and prey have to fight for all the time.

### Behaviour

Giant Photo-Worms want to avoid contact with Walls and seem to dislike walls. They keep astray from Walls while other swimmers would ignore the existence of boundaries completely and take food from the edge of the substrate. This behaviour would be useful for survival in a substrate where walls aren't solid so Giant Worms can easily escape their death. There is a very rare chance of a Giant Photo-Worm performing a **Doom Spiral**.

##### Doom Spirals

A **Doom Spiral** is when an annelid worm in the **Vermidae** family nears a wall and commits a Doom Spiral, which for **nutrient-eating worms (Phagovermis)**, would kill them, since they won't gain the nutrients from the area. If it is a **Photovermis**, such as the Giant Photo-Worm, that commits a Doom Spiral, it will not die due to nutrient loss, rather it will die to predators trying to eat them.

### Coexistence

Giant Photo-Worms are able to coexist with Microfish, Blobfish, Pinktails, and other sea animals like Fish.

### Early Life

When Giant Photo-Worms are born, before they can grow their segments, they start splitting into many Photocytes, then they all become Phagocytes that need some nutrients to fully create their segments and grow their Flagellocytes, Stereocytes, and Phagocytes.

## Trivia

* Giant Photo-Worms are enormous food sources for predators, a great spreader for contagious viruses, and a food supplier for bacteria that latch onto hosts with Glueocytes.
* They are fast for their humongous size.

## Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bw9k68rat7b0x8/Giant%20Worm.substrate?dl=0