ewwwwwwwwwww - no idea Cindy, but they would freak me out too!!!

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Oh cindy, yuck! Just think of it as extra protein!

But it might be a good thing that you have them......

red worms in filter

Not only are they a delicacy, but they are found in clean ponds...so your pond must be in great shape!

When I went to walmart I found a container of them for sale! So then I had to tell mom about this post of yours. I don't even have to say Cindy, one of the other hostesses anymore...Just Cindy this, and Cindy that...

Well.....talk about learning the hard way!

Awhile back I started a topic when I thought something was bad wrong with my fish...and turns out they were just doing the wild thang!


Now I was about ready to drain the pond to get rid of those worms...and turns out they are good.

To be continued.....I'm sure!

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Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car!

cookinmom~ Blood worms are not bad for the pond. It is just one of the things you live with. My fish eat them and the ones in the filter just help clean the filter. I sure wouldn't want them in my drinking water but in the pond they are no problem. They don't bite or cause any harm.
Donna

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Hi everyone...my husband stared a pond a few weeks ago, he intended to finish a week ago but life interfered and its not done, kids were looking into the water and noticed the same little red worms, I guessed these were blood worms right away because i use to work for a pet store where we sold them, and here i thought since the water has not been filtered and just sitting that it would be not a good place for critters like this BUT we also have these other worms, fish like with lots of legs, my youngest said they reminded her of tadpoles but they are not that, I thought maybe the crows left bugs behind after taking a bird bath but these things swim away like fish and look like centipedes sort of and they hang in the water like little black nothings till you go near them then they scoot - could they be mosquito larva? ...not sure what that would look like

If you get some mosquito fish like I did they eat all the mosquito larvae.....they're cool little fish!

Sue, my pond has a solar fountain in it....and around 6pm each day it quits working from the shade hitting it.

That's why I got the mosquito fish....to control the larvae......I bought them on ebay...A bag of 10 of them, they shipped from OR and I'm in MD so they came across country USPS priority mail and only 2 of them didn't make it. Which was okay with me because they mate like crazy.

They're neat little fish because they stay up near the surface almost all day, so when I can't see my goldfish I can at least watch them swimming around.

you probably need more shade for your pond. once i got more floating plants the algae cleared right up. my pond is in full sun, all day everyday it doesn't rain!

I'm so tickled..I found bloodworms in the filter this wknd when I cleaned it. I immediately had to run in the house and show my hubby and let him know what they were and how I knew ..because I had read it here a few weeks ago!
Now I know the pond is healthy and happy and definetly thriving. We have about 6-8 frogs who have made it their home. Frogs now outnumber my fish. lol

Go little bloodworms go!

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