General Aquaria Discussion • Anybody ever seen this before? (bizarre)

[Alowishus]

When I pulled the filter cartridge from an Emperor 400 to rinse it during a water change today I found a live earthworm on the floss. I'm not sure what to make of this..

[Number6]

Best guess... if you didn't add it on purpose then one found its way into the house and got into the tank on purpose to avoid dehydration and death

[zenobium]

Years ago a similar thing happened to me. I was doing a complete tear down and found an earthworm in the gravel...

[D*N*R]

Someone could have feed it to your fish without you knowing? Does not explain why its in your filter.

[zenobium]

My best guess here is that somehow or another, a viable earthworm egg got into the tank and survived. Possible vectors for the egg could have been rocks collected from outside, your gravel, plants, or even your fish food I suppose.

[limpert]

Are you sure its an earthworm?

Also, you're wasting money on those carbon cartridges... you should get some potscrubbers that only require rinsing and will last you nearly forever

[D*N*R]

So do carbon filters when you just keep rinsing them out.