Re: [GSAS-Member] Red Worms

["Tom Watson" <onefish2fish@comcast.net>]

If you can get a picture I will be able to tell.  If they are Tubifex, it is 
quite common for them seek refuge in the gravel or plant roots if they 
escape the fish during a live feeding.  There are always a few that survive 
the drop from the feeder to the gravel.  They can live for months in an 
aquarium and can be passed to other aquariums on the roots of plants.  They 
are completely harmless and will eventually get eaten by the fish in the 
tank.
Tom
West Hyblos Creek Drainage
Washington State
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SUSAN WELENOFSKY" <welenofsky@comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Red Worms


> No Tom, they are nothing like blackworms. Blackworms have rings, these are
> like hose with fluid and cannot support their structure like blackworms 
> can.
> I can send you picture if you like. Maybe someone through the Salmon 
> project
> you work with might know what they are? Steev?
>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Probably not tubifex then.  They resemble black worms (except for color).
> Tom
> West Hyblos Creek Drainage
> Washington State
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "SUSAN WELENOFSKY" <welenofsky@comcast.net>
> To: "'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat'"
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>
>>I feed black worms and they're nothing like this worm. It's stringy like
>> snot, and then it's alive and can move, but can't do anything out of
>> water,
>> like the blackworms squiggle.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com
>> [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Tom Watson
>> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:19 AM
>> To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
>> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Red Worms
>>
>> Probably Tubifex left over from live feeding.  If so they are harmless.
>> Tom
>> West Hyblos Creek Drainage
>> Washington State
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>> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:55 PM
>> Subject: [GSAS-Member] Red Worms
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>>
>>>I bought a bunch of plants at todays auction. I set them in my isolation
>>>tank, and see several plants had red worms in the roots. Could someone
>>>please explain what they are, and if they would be a problem in my
>>>community planted aqaurium?
>>>
>>> Thanks a bunch.
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