pepetj

I have a few FW worms living in the upper part of the substrate (7:3 mixture of Eco-Complete and natural river sand) in my Angelfish 29gal tall tank.

They stay quite close to the Cryptocoryne wendtii and perform a dance like movement that I figure is related to their way of feeding. I tried to remove a few with a turkey blaster to inspect for carefully but was unsuccessful. All my fish seem healthy so I don't think they are parasitic worms.

Any ideas of what these are?

djbrist

Wow Pepe, kinda cool, must be some type of nematode, tho it's just my guess. When I fillet my perch and walleye fish from the lake I have seen tiny threadlike worms wiggling out and in the fillet. I probably have eaten some of them with my meals. I had a picture from a fishing trip of this, but its a 35mm, and I can't digitize, but it looked kinda the same and about the same size.

hope a biologist with "worm" knowledge sees this... good luck

Dave

Tony G.

wow... they are deffinitely strange though.. they look like coordinated choir singers dancing