What on earth are these creatures??

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I found these in my daphnia. one i believe is a glassworm then there are 4 other things. i have some photos apologies if they are rubbish!! they kinda float vertically and look like they have a face with ears sticking from the top of their heads
 

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They remind me of mosquito larvae, but slightly different. If they aren't mossies, then I would guess some other kind of fly.
 
thanks i just did a little Google search for images and that is the closest i can see! i googled insect larvae and couldn't see much so gave up! but that looks very similar.
thanks :) they are flushed now! they were like ninjas the way they moved Haha
 
If you are feeding larvae, they'd be fine food for them. Some people grow mossies on purpose as larva food.:frog:
 
Jennewt said:
If you are feeding larvae, they'd be fine food for them. Some people grow mossies on purpose as larva food.:frog:
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They were in the daphnia for my babies..babies are not much bigger than the lavae were:eek:
 
Yeah, they're hard to catch when they morph from mosquito larvae into this pre-mosquito ninja thing.
:) I threw them out of the window because some of them actually became mosquitoes, lol.
 
ah yeah I bought daphnia on ebay and it arrived with these odd thingies that freaked me out haha they move so weird and never had a clue what they where till a day later I had mosquitos flying around my bedroom -shudders- (luckily there was only 4 of them and 2 had died) I also had mayfly larvae and some odd little black tick looking things and what look to be cyclops but barely any daphnia magna :'(
 
I've raised a lot of T.dobrogicus on a diet of these larvae. When they morph to the second stage (little demonlike creatures) they were eaten still even when they stayed close to the surface. I don't know if axolotls will pick them from the surface quick enough if you raise them in small numbers though.
 
They look like the non-colourful version of Caterpie to me ;)
 

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