I recently found some red worms living in my sand. I never fed any type of
live food in this tank. All I have in the tank is sponge filters, driftwood
and some javamoss. The driftwood and moss was moved from another tank with
fishes that I've only fed flakes and BBS.
Anyway, I'm guessing it came with some shrimps that I bought. They are red
worms, about 1/2" long. They move around on the sand, with occasional
twitching when it "swims". Almost like mosquito larvae. They tend to
create tunnels in the sand, so that when I catch them, a long strand of
sand stuck together comes along with them. I can see them stick their
head(?) out and reach for flakes or pieces of moss and pulls it to their
tunnel/home, so they have something that they use to grab... or maybe
that's the mouth.
I picked out a few... seemed to have multiplied extremely fast. I have
only added the shrimps for about a week. I fed the few to some of my
sjoestedti fry and they seemed to love it.
Are they bloodworms? Are they harmful in anyway?
How can I get rid of them?
Henry
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