HELP!!!!! MAGGOTS!

[smartdog126]

here is some pictures help me out

 

[bradlgt21]

I have no idea what that is. I would like to know though. Don't look like hydra either.

 

[snoopy65]

They look like mosquito larvae. http://www.planetinverts.com/mosquito-larvae.jpg

 

[kyryah]

They are mosquito larvae, the fuzzy stuff is fungus. It has nothing to do with any fish or plants that you bought. Fungus will grow on leftover food and dead livestock if left in any tank too long.

Kristina

 

[bradlgt21]

So it's live blood worms? Dude your fish should be gobbling those things up. Mine love the freeze dried ones, I could imagine real live ones.

 

[Wycco]

LOL... so technically he WAS right all along- they are maggots.

Maggots are the larvae of flies.

 

[kyryah]

The have nothing to do with flies, lol, they are MOSQUITO larvae

Kristina

 

[Wycco]

You got me questioning my sanity then and whether Mosquito's are really flies...

From Mosquito.org

Mosquitoes are insects belonging to the order Diptera, the True Flies.

From Wikipedia.org

Maggot is the common name of the larval phase of development in insects of the order Diptera (flies).

So... is it just me, or is it not correct to call mosquito larvae maggots? I know we don't normally call them that- but they are.

None of us really believed he had maggots in his aquarium... but I guess technically he was right afterall!

Like all True Flies, they have two wings, but unlike other flies, mosquito wings have scales

They have scales! Perhaps they belong in a tank after all!

 

[dixienut]

blood worms are NOT mosquito larvae,...

http://www.raingarden.us/bloodworms.htm

 

[kyryah]

Okay well, you got me there.

They have scales! Perhaps they belong in a tank after all!

Anything that breathes out it's behind can stay the heck out of my tanks, lol.

Kristina