Re: [GSAS-Member] bloodworms in the yard

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

Trish-
    That could be them. Here's a picture of what their eggs look like. Of 
course the
egg mass is nearly invisible underwater - always found just below the surface, 
attached
to something (like the bucket sides) but bobbing freely.

Steev


--- Trish <snips36@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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