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Seriously creeped out!!!

_BaDgUy_

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Don't know where to put this post, so I guess I'll put it in here!!

I've got a 10 gallon tank set up with some California Black Worms.
Haven't been maintaining the tank too much in the past few weeks, but everything seems OK.

Today, I checked it out, and I've got some weird stuff in there!!

Here is a picture of what I found in there :

Actual size of this thing is about an inch long, but can contract and expand anywhere between half an inch and one and a half inch.

Large pic (link) : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/dwarfcichlids/help.jpg

Small pic for the forum :
helpsmall.jpg


Now, what the heck is it??????
 

afra

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It looks like a leach. You will find them quite often in black worms, at least from what I have seen in the past.
 

tjudy

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All the worms I have ever gotten or seen fro CBW have the leaches in them. They are not the blood-sucking type though (or so I have been told).
 

Apistogramm-Sam

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Pick them out with tweezers and feed them to your fish. My fish always loved to eat them and the leeches never had any negative effects on the fish.
 

dhm325

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I feed black worms to my fish regularly. Leaches like the one in your photograph have always been present in the cultures I purchase from California Aquatics. I alwys picks them out with a tweezer. They have never caused me any problems.
 

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