RUN for your li....... ummm, scratch that......
....meander along at a leisurely pace for your LIVES!!!

I mean, they ARE worms after all....


What am I rambling on about?

I have a 65G quarantine/grow tank.

I put a 7" polypterus senegalus in it because he was trying to swallow the tail of my 7" sturgeon. (the 8.5" poly indi ignores it... go figure)

This was to be a holding tank until I took him to a LFS for a trade in on something different.

I dropped in a cube of tubifex freezdried worms in, and stuck another to the side of the tank.

He attacked and scattered the stuck one, eating most of it, and left the floater alone.

Next day I see a couple dozen or so stuck to the sides of the tank, just randomly on all 4 sides, thought nothing of it.
two days later i go to take him to the LFS, and there are hundreds and hundreds of little 1/4" worms all over the glass.

That really puzzled me.

Come back home and dont think about it for two days, look back in the empty tank, and there are thousands of them on the glass, moving around, wiggling, squirming, and even a few wigglers all in the water.

Its been over a week now, still there, still a lot of movement. had the heater off when I removed the fish, it went down to 70 degrees, now Ive had the heater back on just to observe these... whatever the heck they are... in the tank, its up to 86 now, no change.

What the heck?????!!!!!!!?????

Do I have zombie tubifex worms that came back to life after being freezdried, cubed, and stored in a jar on a shelf for who knows how long?

Any idea what they are if not tubifex?

The tank has no substrate, no decorations and just 3 floating plants that came out of my 150 because they were growing about 2 inches every 24 hrs and annoying me.
Dang things were 8 inches when I got em, two months later they were 30 inches and getting tangled up in everything.
It cant be anything from them, they came right out of the 150, well established, and no sign of these zombies in the 150.

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150G, 1 shovelnose sturgeon 8", 1 polypterus endilicheri 9", 1 leopard ctenapoma 4", 1 Distichodus Sexfasciatus 6", 1 Farlowella acus algae eater 8", 2 silver dollars, 2 tank bred angelfish, 1 clown knife 11", 1 Jaguar hybrid syntadonis 4", 6 African cichlids 3+"

I think the freeze drying would kill all of the live worms. However, it may be possible for some eggs to survive perhaps?

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could be the process was not done properly for what ever reason. being animal feed, they may not have any standards etc. i guess this is how parasites(or its eggs) etc that are harbored in freeze dried ones pop up in our dear fish's stomach.

Makes sense!

I think I will toss that jar and remember not to buy em again.
Anyone else had any bad experiences with the "omega one" brand?

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150G, 1 shovelnose sturgeon 8", 1 polypterus endilicheri 9", 1 leopard ctenapoma 4", 1 Distichodus Sexfasciatus 6", 1 Farlowella acus algae eater 8", 2 silver dollars, 2 tank bred angelfish, 1 clown knife 11", 1 Jaguar hybrid syntadonis 4", 6 African cichlids 3+"