Hi RC,
So, my tank has been running for about a year and a half now with no problems. Recently, I've noticed these thin, stringy, yellowish-red things coming out of my sand bed. I didn't think much of it the first time I saw it, but as time passed I began to see more and more of them coming out of my sand bed. I took a wooden skewer stick and poked at one and noticed that it burrowed itself more into the sand. So apparently these things are alive. I was able to dig into the sand and lift one of these suckers out.
Kind of a bad picture, but this is what they look like when they're in my sand bed with their legs out.
Here is a picture of one caught on a stick. The picture came out bad cause of my crappy macro capabilities on my camera phone. But it actually had a somewhat long body with a bunch of legs coming out of it.
Please help me ID these things. Should I be worried about them? Is there anything I could do to get rid of them?
Thanks in advance!
So, my tank has been running for about a year and a half now with no problems. Recently, I've noticed these thin, stringy, yellowish-red things coming out of my sand bed. I didn't think much of it the first time I saw it, but as time passed I began to see more and more of them coming out of my sand bed. I took a wooden skewer stick and poked at one and noticed that it burrowed itself more into the sand. So apparently these things are alive. I was able to dig into the sand and lift one of these suckers out.
Kind of a bad picture, but this is what they look like when they're in my sand bed with their legs out.
Here is a picture of one caught on a stick. The picture came out bad cause of my crappy macro capabilities on my camera phone. But it actually had a somewhat long body with a bunch of legs coming out of it.
Please help me ID these things. Should I be worried about them? Is there anything I could do to get rid of them?
Thanks in advance!
