Revernance

Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. It looked like an earthworm, but smaller. Maybe about an inch long, and very visible! Brown and slimy. I tried to catch it with a net, but it burrowed right into the substrate.
I used dry topsoil from my backyard a year ago. How does an aquatic worm live in my dry topsoil from the backyard?

 

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Dustymac

Nasty worm? Sounds like healthy fish food to me.

And if you really want a shock, get yourself a decent microscope. Nematodes, flatworms, paramecia, amoebas, vorticellae and other rotifers, diatoms and spirogyra... the list goes on and on. You'll never take a pull on a siphon hose again!

Have fun!
Jim

cs_gardener

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGHH! I didn't want to think about all the microscopic stuff in my tank, darn you! Now, I don't start siphons by using my mouth, but some of my more exuberant fish have splashed water in my face when I'm feeding them. I'm usually careful now and stand waaaaaaay back, plopping the food in at arms length, but sometimes they think I'm feeding them when I'm there to clean the tank and splash me then when I'm not paying as much attention. ick, ick, ick, . . .

testdummy

I found a nasty worm like that too in my fish tank, i managed to catch it with tweezers and threw it away in a spare container >_>. I tried looking online later for a worm that matched it, but never found one. It looked smooth non-segmented earth worm and was about 1/2in long. Burrowed fast through the gravel/soil and would randomly come up. I wouldn't see it for weeks at a time. One day I was fast enough to catch it and toss it >_>. Moved just like an earthworm too.

HeyPK

It may have been a tubifex worm which could have come in on a plant. These are harmless.

Revernance

testdummy- I think we are talking about the same EXACT worm. I hope I catch that sucker because it gives me goosebumps!

HeyPK- Are tubifex worms segmented?

testdummy

So far I haven't been able to match up pictures of tubifex worms online with the worm I caught. Now I regret not taking a picture of it. >_> It didn't appear to have any segments though.

aquabillpers

It could be an aquatic earthworm. There are several hundred species. Length is between 1 and 30 mm.

They are harmless and would be eaten by anything large enough that could catch them. I wouldn't mind having a breeding colony of them in my tanks.

Here's a link:

http://www.olympusmicro.com/micd/gal...orm/index.html

Bill

ZooTycoonMaster

Is it possibly planaria?

testdummy

It didn't have that shape, colors almost right but it looked like a smooth earthworm without any segments(pointed on both ends).

 

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