1. Put it in a bowl and feed it regularly so you have lots of them that you can summon at will with the smell of munchies.
2. Watch the old black & white movie called "The Tingler."
3. Have endless inside joke fun with other people who have seen the movie.
...What? Don't tell me it isn't standard in the marine community.
Anyway, back to seriousness. I would use tongs or something rather than gloves. I had one large worm put spines straight through a pretty thick pair of rubber gloves somehow. The gloves still more-or-less protected my fingers during and after that event, but they were a useless pair of gloves after that since they leaked from that finger!
EDIT: fixed double-post...no idea how it double-posted to the same post!