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Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 11:00
| When cleaning my filter I found these worms. Any idea what they are? Are they a problem? They look like teeny tiny earth wormks. Also my fish have eaten my lilies. I have a food block in there for them. And feed 2 kinds of food (more than they can eat in 5 min.) once a day.So the little buggers shouldn't be hungry. But now I wonder about these worms. I don't see any in the soil or rock.Could they be causing the lilies to dissapear. The edges of the pads got smaller and smaller as they were eaten.
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| I don't know what they are, but I have seen them on the rocks in my stream and waterfall. |
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- Posted by pashta_2006 Z4 ADK NY (pashta@aol.com) on Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 14:02
| I believe they are called blood worms and they are okay in your pond. There have beem discussions on them before. I don't think the worms eat lilies. What kind of fish do you have? Koi will eat anything they can get their mouths on. I have never had problems with comets or shubunkins eating lilies. Also, there is some kind of caterpiller that attacks lilies, but that would be just the part above water, not down to the soil. Anne |
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| I'm relieved to hear that the worms aren't a problem! I have commets, shubunkins and fans. They started eating the lilies last year but started so late in the year that there wasn't much damage. This year they started early. You can see they have them (2 pots) down to nothing! Last week I bought them some watercress and gave it to them each day. They devoured it! I know I'm feeding them enough. I guess I just have a bunch of vegetarians! |
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