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Can blood worms survive the freezing process?
I was cleaning some of the debrie from the bottom of my 5 gallon betta tank (the 6 amano shrimp are making a mess of the bottom of the tank). After finding some pond snails that hitched a ride on some plants, I've been on the lookout for any more snails. So once I sucked up this one lump of debrie, I looked at it close with a magnifying glass to see if it was a snail, or perhaps the carcus of a snail. It didn't take long before it was quite apparent that something ON this glob was alive. I soon realized that there were several tiny worms (way finer that a hair and maybe 1/8" long... only way to see them is under a magnifying glass) apparently feeding off of (or being born from?) this glob.
What could these worms be?
FWIW, I had yesterday thawed some frozen blood worms and dropped a clump of them in the tank yesterday for the betta (and the shrimp) to feed on overnight. It makes me wonder if what I am seeing are baby blood worms.
I was cleaning some of the debrie from the bottom of my 5 gallon betta tank (the 6 amano shrimp are making a mess of the bottom of the tank). After finding some pond snails that hitched a ride on some plants, I've been on the lookout for any more snails. So once I sucked up this one lump of debrie, I looked at it close with a magnifying glass to see if it was a snail, or perhaps the carcus of a snail. It didn't take long before it was quite apparent that something ON this glob was alive. I soon realized that there were several tiny worms (way finer that a hair and maybe 1/8" long... only way to see them is under a magnifying glass) apparently feeding off of (or being born from?) this glob.
What could these worms be?
FWIW, I had yesterday thawed some frozen blood worms and dropped a clump of them in the tank yesterday for the betta (and the shrimp) to feed on overnight. It makes me wonder if what I am seeing are baby blood worms.