What are they? Where do they come from? Are they dangerous to my fish and their environment?ĭepending on your system and fish aquarium setup, sometimes worms are a normal, natural, and unavoidable occurrence. The many wormlike larvae of aquatic insects always have some fingerlike, feathery, or leglike appendages, or are plump like caterpillars or grubs.When keeping aquarium fish, a lot of time and research goes into what is normal versus what is abnormal.Flatworms (planarians turbellarians) are flat they move on surfaces by a seemingly motionless gliding.Leeches are flattened and usually move by swimming or by “looping” inchworm-like with front and back suckers.Adult horsehair worms are not segmented and are usually quite long for their width they move by bending, not by stretching and pulling.Midge larvae are insects and have distinct heads, leglike appendages, and often feathery structures. Thus red tubificid worms and red midge fly larvae are both sometimes called bloodworms. But the wormlike larvae of some midge flies (family Chironomidae) also possess hemoglobin and are also red. Some tubificid worms are bright red: they contain hemoglobin, the same oxygen-carrying molecule humans have in our red blood cells.They move like earthworms, by stretching and pulling. There are many species most are red, tan, brown, or black. They lack legs, head, and readily seen mouthparts. Aquatic worms with segmented, earthworm-like bodies that are round in cross-section (not flattened).
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