Collin Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Hi everyone, I've recently become very fascinated wuth detritus worms and want to learn more about them and their life cycle. Yesterday I put a manzanita branch into my betta tank. Today I noticed a couple of detritus worms on it and thought nothing of it, because why would I? But then I realized... these have to be new detritus worms and thus must have just built their casings... or maybe they are still building them! I looked, and sure enough they were wiggling around, appearing to grab...detritus... and it looked like they were pulling it back or maybe eating it. I took a short timelapse that just shows a couple of them wiggling around on the branch and uploaded it here if you'd like to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkG Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Cool, It looks like midge larvae, are you sure it is worms? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I love the timelapse, that is really cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 I've honestly never heard of midge flies until now. I've done some light google searching and it's hard to deny the resemblance. I'll keep an eye on this to see if it is in fact larvae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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