Re: [GSAS-Member] frozen bloodworms (was) Re: Was Bulk chemicals - now Salts...and fin rot in guppies...

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

So this may be a silly question here, but I'm curious...

Are these the little worms which show up, when you have a bucket of water 
sitting around, and they appear out of no where? I have these in a bucket now 
with some starts off of a tree in our back yard....

Thanks!
    Trish


--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:

> From: Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com>
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] frozen bloodworms (was) Re: Was Bulk chemicals - 
> now Salts...and fin rot in guppies...
> To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7:07 AM
> >I've never seen live chironomid larvae here.
> 
> I get them all the time in my outside culture tubs. They
> are easy to
> identify. Bright red, look just like the frozen bloodworms
> when they thaw
> out...wierd little mouth parts, segmented. NOT wormy. They
> sometimes are
> dancing around in the water column and most of the time
> they spend in
> little mulm tubes they construct on the sides/bottom of the
> container. The
> egg cases are easy to identify (little dotted sock-like
> thingies).
> 
> Betty Goetz
> 
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