Worm problem?

[Aries]

I just noticed in my 29G I have worms of some sort or another. They are brown/pink/orange'ish. THey are ONLY in my gravel and dont come out. I noticed them because they (or one really long one) was against the glass in the gravel. What could it be? Is there a site I can go to so I can identify (would post pic but they are no longer at the side).

Tank Setup
AC500
Plants - low lite, low CO2
Lite on 11 HRs per day (20W)
6 Zebra Danio
6 Blackskirt Tetras
3 Leopard Cory Cats
1 Pl*co.
Normal cheap blue Estes gravel.
Temp 78F
Ammonia = 0
Nitrites = 0
Nitrates = ~5ppm
KH = 3
GH = 13
PH = 7.2'ish

Fish are fine as ever, happy as can be. The tank has been established for ~9 months or more and receives 30% water changes every saturday.

Can any one help please????

Thank you :)

--I have checked the search function here but to no avail

[O-man21]

do you feed them live bloodworms?
It might be some blood worms that got away from the fish.

[Aries]

I have fed them frozen blood worm larvae. Guess those unthawed and are now in my gravel.

Is that a bad thing?

I hope not....

[wetmanNY]

Defrosted bloodworms come back to life? Then there's hope for Walt Disney and Ted Williams! Why is a bloodworm not a "worm" Aries? What harm are you imagining from these tasty-sounding worms?

AquariaCentral does have a Newbie Forum too. We are all kinder to you there.

[kveeti]

Originally posted by Aries Is there a site I can go to so I can identify

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html
Somewhere to start. As it says it's not a comprehensive list.

Worms are cool. I just found a spirostomum, man can that guy boogey!

[Aries]

I did not think worms were bad. But I just wanted to make sure for some odd thing could happen,who knows. Also, I thought they might die and since I dont deep vacuum my gravel extremely (plants and all - i do a light vacuum) it might decompose like a fish and so forth.

I have never fed them live foods, only frozen ones. So yah, I guess frozen things can come back to life and live.

I know bloodworms are fly larvae (midge fly i think).

Thanks...

[wetmanNY]

If you have plants and you don't stir up your substrate and you don't repeatedly medicate the aquarium, you'll develop some interesting fauna, none of which is parasitic. All of which is interesting in itself. Some of which is edible if you're a fish.

Fry all but raise themselves on the plankton in such tanks.