WTH is this???!

[deeleywoman]

i just picked up some crickets and freeze-dried mealworms from petsmart for scooter, and moments after dumping a few crickets and a few mealworms into the tank, i spy this thing crawling around the tank:

wth is this? is it safe to leave in with him? or should i take it out? i'm freaked! :22_yikes:

 

[PaulJ69]

i forget what its called but its a worm type of bug and eats on dead crickets. I don't really know if its safe to eat. Typically normal tho

 

[ChilDawg]

Dermestid beetle larva? If you want something a little more definitive, try this...

I don't know if it will turn on Scooter or not. They will prey upon live crickets if hungry enough, but I really don't know if that extends to live vertebrates or only dead ones.

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=146216

 

[PaulJ69]

http://bugguide.net/node/view/122000#154977

 

[Dangerdoll]

*heebie-jeebies*

 

[cam191919]

^ i second that notion, i hate those

 

[BioHazard]

Ooh, a dermestid! Get a couple more, and you can start a skeleton cleaning colony, lol!
Check this out... http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190375

 

[BettaFishMommy]

hey! a creepy crawly for ohbly's new little diy enclosure! http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195465 lol.

 

[katschamne]

I hate these things. We are getting them all the time now with our crickets at work especially since we started getting our crickets from "The Bug Company".

 

[deeleywoman]

soooooo... i ought to run upstairs and take it out the second i get home, then, and pray to god it can't swim and he doesn't crawl up onto the dock to try and eat it in the meantime?


edit: oh, crapola! those are the bugs they use to clean corpses in Bones!!! yeah, taking it out of the tank!