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domjd05
07-03-2009, 07:42 PM
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I don't really know what to say.
jackson17
07-03-2009, 07:52 PM
Don't know, just gross lol
DrNic
07-03-2009, 09:15 PM
We saw that in the lab recently. Not sure I believe they are worms though. I'm really surprised whoever took the video didn't try to get a sample of them.
domjd05
07-04-2009, 01:24 AM
It definately strange... It almost looks like the camera was mounted on a robotic arm the way it moves.
fishlover49
07-04-2009, 01:50 AM
Euuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!! :scry: :scry:
DrNic
07-04-2009, 03:19 AM
It definately strange... It almost looks like the camera was mounted on a robotic arm the way it moves.
It is. What you're looking at is video of either a drainage or sewer pipe. The camera is on a long fiber optic arm that they control from the truck.
Gayle
07-04-2009, 03:25 AM
Someone else posted this a few days ago. I think its totally cool!!! I would love to try and grow them, or just get my GLOVED hands on some of them and see what they are, run some tests! That would be awesome!
NanoTankGuy
07-04-2009, 05:14 AM
Someone else posted this a few days ago. I think its totally cool!!! I would love to try and grow them, or just get my GLOVED hands on some of them and see what they are, run some tests! That would be awesome!
The easiest thing to grow - a neighbour lab in my university grows them in 1 g tanks with sand substrate and airstones, leaving the rest to mother nature ;)
Gayle
07-04-2009, 05:40 AM
The easiest thing to grow - a neighbour lab in my university grows them in 1 g tanks with sand substrate and airstones, leaving the rest to mother nature ;)

Seriously??? And they all move in unison like the ones in the video??? I have to try it! Just sand water and air???
bushwhacker
07-04-2009, 05:33 PM
its the blob....
domjd05
07-05-2009, 12:05 AM
I really want to know what that thing is haha
HeatherB
07-05-2009, 01:56 AM
yuck! remind me not to drink or eat anything from north carolina! This is probebly why they say not to flush your fishies!
Ashley
07-05-2009, 02:03 AM
ew, when it moves it looks so gross!
NanoTankGuy
07-05-2009, 02:46 AM
Seriously??? And they all move in unison like the ones in the video??? I have to try it! Just sand water and air???
Yes. Set up a 1G tank halfway-filled with fine sand. I don't know what they feed them, I'm guessing nothing :) When you get them in a blob, usually in clod temperatures and poke them, or "startle" in some way they move like that - one usually starts and then it's a chain reaction within miliseconds.
domjd05
07-06-2009, 03:19 AM
Nano I didn't think you were serious.. that is very cool.