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What else lives in your fish tank that you cannot see?! Pics
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:12 am
by Vancmann
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:55 am
by millsn
that is grim
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:48 am
by Donna
It doesn't pay to peer too closely at our own drinking water, either.
But from a pure photography point of view, those are superb pictures.
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:11 pm
by NancyD
Those spines look nasty
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:38 am
by palaeodave
Hmm...I might have some people I can ask. Might take a little while as people are on holiday but I'll try to find out over the next few weeks.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:30 am
by wasserscheu
Hi Vance,
great lense you have
Due to the amount of hairs and their spacing, as well as the wormsegments, the pic's schow, I dare to say those belong to the group of Oligochaeta (very large group, also garden worms belong to), which are harmless in your tank and are indeed a very fine food for fry and small fish like tetra. Nematodes have no hair, and thsoe are not so easy to claim harmless.
I can watch tetra spottimg and eating them, loaches eyesight seems not withz sufficient resolution. I see them rarely but put them under the mikroskope, and they look like yours. I also found cyclops in my tanks, also good food.
I did show pic's at LOL of my worms under the microscope, but can't locate the thread.
German drinkingwater contains water louse (sowbug/slater), it's all biological ok and not dirty just looks akward
Even found some old pic's of my worms, which I guess I caught with live tubifex, 6 years ago, and the did not harm, I am actually happy to have them, unfourtunately, I have not spotted them for almost 2 years now:
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:06 pm
by chefkeith
Nice pics.
When I emptied my 190 g tank this past summer, I found tubifex worms everywhere in the gravel.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:40 pm
by palaeodave
Yeah, nematode jumped into my mind then I noticed the hairs. I can't help wanting an exact identification!
Chefkeith, do you think the tubifex would have been providing constant live food to your tank or did they stay so low down nobody would have gotten to them?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:47 pm
by wasserscheu
To my knowledge nematodes have no segments neither. Nematodes can be parasites, O's do not, but can be a good part in the natural balance of a tank). As a fact, many fish sold to eat, contain nematodes (fresh- and sea water). So Vance is lucky, in my opinion.
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:10 pm
by Vancmann
Hey all, sorry for the late response, I never got email notification for this post...
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:21 pm
by Vancmann
Donna, thank you and yea, I am not going to look at any drinking supply anytime soon
Nancy, they sure look like spines or even spikes but infact, they are delicate hairs.
Everyone else thank you!!
Palaeodave, Wasserscheu, I am so clueless on what these are but i am happy they are natural and not any harm or side effect of any problems.