>--- Jeremy Tiemann <jtiemann_at_inhs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> Also, kids are always amazed at how
>> much life lives in one jar of pond water.
>
>Speaking of little critters ...
>
>I was helping vaccum out my friend's Mom's 125 gallon.
>Her two large iridescent sharks had fungused blisters on
>their noses/snouts/rostrums.
>
>Anyway, I vaccumed the gravel well and in the dirty water
>I found several little "critters" swimming around quite
>rapidly. At first, it just looked like it was dirt, then I
>noticed that they were swimming against the current.
>
>These were the size of a parenthesis ")" with legs/cilia
>on one side. They sort-of looked like brine shrimp except
>that they were in fresh-water and living in the gravel of
>the tank. (She doesn't feed live brine shrimp)
>
>I figured they were gammarus or other inverts. But, they
>did not have the hard carapace/shell.
>
>Sajjad
>
>=====
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