speaking of worms- red ones?

[Rad Michelle]

so i have one mud bottom container like 2 feet wide 8" deep and filled with mud, its where i grow out my tubers, but anywho there are patches of little tiny red wriggling wriggling worms. they are like a brownish red, they dont do anything to the plants, they are just in the mud under the water, i bet i could take a macro pic of them, but theres like hundreds and not very big at all.. not like the midge fly larva bloom worms, smaller. anyone else have em or know what they are

[tinkster]

dont know that I have those but every year when I emty out the lotus ponds to get the tubers, I am surprised what lives under the water and in that mud!

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[miguynmkoi]

They sell something like that for fish food (live).  When I had a tropical fish aquarium I would buy these tiny red worms by  my the ounce (small condiment container).  My trops loved them!

[PondmaninAL]

Michelle, they are probably just blood worms. Maybe just young or stunted. Feed 'em to the fishes.

[Freddie Peepers]

tubifex worms???thats the one i used to get for my tropical fish too

[Rad Michelle]

ok i just spent a better part of 45 minutes trying to catch one hehe. and a snap of what they look like in their little colony. ok never mind about the colony... all it looks like with the camera is a fuzzy red blob. but they just halfway poke out of the mud and furiously wriggle... and disappear back into the mud a sudden movements of disturbance.

[Rad Michelle]

oh yeah. i googled tubifex worms and youtubed the video of it but yup thats them. here fishy fishy