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Can anyone identify this critter, please?

eatyourpeas

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Caught it sliding down the aquarium wall towards the sand substrate, where it disappeared. I gave up on google image search as it keeps sending me into outer space (literally!) and can't find anything like it. It moves like a slug, just sliding. About 1.5 mm long.
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Tank inhabitants are cherry shrimp, bladder snails and ramshorn snails, ostracods and copepods. Plants are all floating or epiphytes except for a baby crypto. Sand substrate, wood, no ferts. Light on for 8 hours a day.

Tank is 6 gal. fully cycled and heavily planted. Parameters are:
pH: 7.0
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrites: 0 ppm
Nitrates: 0 ppm
Temp: 78F

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proabably a larva. maybe part of your macro organism environment?
 
It is not an egg sack. It is elongated and slid into the sand substrate like a nematode. I am still looking at creepy crawlies videos to see if I come across something similar.
 
eatyourpeas said:
It is not an egg sack. It is elongated and slid into the sand substrate like a nematode. I am still looking at creepy crawlies videos to see if I come across something
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eew! probably from the plants or something. should be harmless. pls tell me if you see it again!
 
Hopefully I gave it the fright of his life and he died or is in comatose state in the substrate. Have not seen it since, so maybe the human ogre face worked!
 
My first reaction was eggs as well, which clearly it's not, so I've got nothing for you there.

But... That tank looks amazing! /jealous
 
Flushable Pets said:
My first reaction was eggs as well, which clearly it's not, so I've got nothing for you there.

But... That tank looks amazing! /jealous
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Thank you @Flushable Pets and @Barry Tetra ! I am almost ready to put Nicodemus in (pea puffer). Just waiting for the berried shrimps to have the shrimplets so I can move them out of the tank, and prevent them from becoming tea treats for him. He is fine with the adults, though.
 
LordHappy said:
Happy day...I think it is a Politiobraineo Feastio and it is globally indigenous in the water supplies of buildings inhabited by politicians.
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Ahhh, that makes sense! It feasts on unsuspecting constituents!!! Are they susceptible to bleach? Other specimens in that genus have proven to be impervious to harsh chemicals.
 
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