Some sort of bristle worm? I didn’t know there were freshwater ones. They have stinging hairs, and will eat fish and inverts when big enough, but you can make DIY traps, buy a trap, or use planting tweezers/ tongs to get him out of there. Small substrate worms = generally good guys, big substrate worms= generally bad guys.
prokenny on
Nightmare fuel
Sir-Himbo-Dilfington on
definitely a bristleworm of some kind
SomeGuyInTheUK on
Holy hell nuke it from orbit ! Looks like a ragworm, which are saltwater and can give you a painful nip so maybe the freshwater ones can. Any idea how it got in the tank other than glitch in the matrix?.
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Looks like a centipede
~~Looks like a millipede. Probably fell in.~~
Actually TIL there are freshwater bristleworms, [see here for someone in the same boat as you](https://www.plantedtank.net/threads/help-worm-in-shrimp-tank.1235794/). Get this out of your tank with a trap do not touch it directly if its like its salt water cousins.
Some sort of bristle worm? I didn’t know there were freshwater ones. They have stinging hairs, and will eat fish and inverts when big enough, but you can make DIY traps, buy a trap, or use planting tweezers/ tongs to get him out of there. Small substrate worms = generally good guys, big substrate worms= generally bad guys.
Nightmare fuel
definitely a bristleworm of some kind
Holy hell nuke it from orbit ! Looks like a ragworm, which are saltwater and can give you a painful nip so maybe the freshwater ones can. Any idea how it got in the tank other than glitch in the matrix?.
That’s a big fucking **NOPE**