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I found this thing under my water dish in my tiger salamander tank. Can you ID it? And is it bad? Because there might be more in the tank
 
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It has a little black head and crawls like a cross between a caterpillar and a worm. Kind of transparent. I can see a black line inside. Maybe it's gi tract
 
Planaria,I believe .I have these in my tanks the newts eat them and larvae eat their young i think anyway,although adult planaria eat eggs,I have some kind of planaria that thrives in my adult tanks,I cannot bring myself to get rid of it as any larvae i have gets fed for free
 
It's like an inch and a half long. Still planaria?
 
Terrestrial flatworms can reach lengths measured in feet, depending on species. I've seen native species over a half inch. However, that looks like a maggot/caterpillar of some kind. Potential lunch, but possible also a sign of something leftover in the cage for insects to feed and nest in.
 
Looks to me like a crane fly larva.
 
I just have some moss on coconut substrate with a piece of wood for him to burrow under. Anything that they could survive on?
 
If there's food buried in there somewhere (a long-forgotten earthworm), that's plenty.
 
The substrate is only like a month And a half old. So nothing really forgotten. And my salamander eats everything I give him
 
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