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

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

Not sure unless we see some, but my wormy guys showed up out of nowhere.
The midges larvae make sense...the adults fly, after all. But the
tubifex...nothing in their life cycles FLIES. So not sure HOW they got
into my cultures, but I welcome them!

Betty Goetz

> 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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