Worm?

[fishfanatic2]

As I began replacing my gravel yesterday and was taking the old stuff out, a creature popped out of its burial place in the gravel. It was a flat worm-like thing, all brown, no discernible head features, about .75" in length, swam like an eel. It quickly buried back into some other gravel. Not much later I saw another one. What is this, and more importantly, is it good or bad? Thanks for any advice, sorry no pics because it came out so fast and I don't have a digi cam.

 

[Anonymous]

It could be a leach.
~wings~

 

[gpodio]

Yeah sounds like leaches. I know people that keep them on purpose so I don't think they pose any harm to your tank. Some can actually be quite colorful.

Giancarlo

 

[fishfanatic2]

Wow. Thats...interesting. Leave em there? Will they be fish food or just leaches swimming around?

It probably is leaches since I have never fed the tank with any sort of worms. But, where would leaches come from?

Thnx!

 

[Anonymous]

*leech

leach is a verb, as in something leaching out of something, as in blood leaching out from a leech wound :wink: