Unknown pods ???

[c0mf0rt]

I realize this will just be a guess without pics but....... I was looking at my sand tonight and say numerous squigly black/brown lines.... upong looking at the surface of the sand I saw a few of them "reaching" around with a "bulb" tip like they were eating the algae on the tank..... any ideas???

 

[quarryshark]

Sounds more like a worm. A pic would be nice.

 

[c0mf0rt]

sorry but I dont' have a way to get my pics off my digi cam right now..... these things are tiny... I'd say.... half a cm in length for the biggest one and no more than a mm wide.......

 

[c0mf0rt]

would they be bad for my tank???? if so what would get rid of them??

 

[Corty]

They sound like the sand sifters I have in my tank.. so far nothing bad (that I know of).

When you turn on the light (or shine a flashlight on them), do they dart back into the sand?

I tell ya, that made it hard getting a picture.. then the main one disappeared, so I don't have a lot of hope of getting one now.

 

[quarryshark]

Usually not. If they are eating algae, thats a good sign.

 

[c0mf0rt]

seems to be...... he seems to be "reaching" up from the sand to scrape the side of the tank... the others dont' seem to be moving at all.......

 

[c0mf0rt]

I just noticed by looking furthur into the tank that there are probably thousands of these things.... but they're all just sticking above the surface to wiggle around....