Please help me identify this creature
tryggvi at email.msn.com
Tue Oct 5 20:27:37 EST 1999
When I was a kid living in Indiana, I would play in the nearby creek
if there weren't any dinosaurs to hunt . One day I caught something like
what you are describing and showed it to my Grandfather who told me that
horsehairs left in the water came to life and wiggled like the creature I
had found. I believed that for more years than I care to remember. They were
fairly common in ponds and sluggish streams--even if there were no horses
I never had any reason to believe they were parasites, but I've
always wondered what they were.
Paul27 <Paul27 at hotmail.NOSPAMcom> wrote in message
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> I have a small goldfish pond in my backyard. Yesterday, as I lifted a
> out of my pond (it
> had originally held a plant, which had floated out of it)I noticed a brown
> through part of the
> container. It was about 7 inches long, and almost as thick as a kite
string (but not
> quite that thick).
> At first I thought it was a cord I had used to tie the plant to the
container, but it started
> moving. What kind
> of worm could this be? Is it some sort of parasite? Is there anywhere on
the web that
> has pictures to help
> me identify this creature?
> Paul27 at hotmail.NOSPAMcom
> (Please remove the NOSPAM from my email address before replying. Thanks)
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