Clarifying. I meant, "I've never seen them *for sale in pet shops* here." Certainly they're all over the place in streams, ponds, whatever. > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:07:18 -0700> From: haika@drizzle.com> To: > gsas-member@thekrib.com> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] frozen bloodworms (was) > Re: Was Bulk chemicals - now Salts...and fin rot in guppies...> > >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> > > _______________________________________________> GSAS-Member mailing list> > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com> http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_family_safety_072008 _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member