InvaderDust
11 Comments
  1. Wow that is the biggest aquarium leech I’ve seen

    You can tell its a Hirudinea (leech) because it has two suckers at both extremities, but I can’t identify more specifically

  2. Lookin like a leech mah boi

  3. Got one of these worm squirmming in my hand a while ago when picking up plant so I get some heebie jeebies looking at this lol

  4. Add guppies and create a parasitic ecosystem

  5. Looks like “Asian leeches” they can come on just about anything, eggs live forever and are damn near indestructible. They are awful of you are trying to breed shrimp but don’t seem to affect snails or fish. They definitely eat shrimp fry or something though, I had issues with them. Guppies don’t really eat them, nothing I found really works to treat them, and I’ve read and seen people go to insane measures just to have them hatch again later. Pea puffers will eat them though if you don’t feed them super often… although yours are huge…mine were reddish and slightly smaller I think but there are a few like that. Juvenile guppies tended to hunt the bottom but I have those leeches still in one tank that’s all guppies. My pea puffers eradicated them though in one tank, and you can also use planaria traps. They seem to like algae wafers and fish food, you have to just keep at it and be vigilant…. If anyone knows a better way lmk

  6. Kinda cool and kinda gross at the same time!

    If I had room to dedicate a tank I might keep them, but I’d be concerned doing maintenance!

  7. Planaria? 🤷‍♂️

  8. I had these in my aquarium once. So hard to get rid of. Hate leeches.

  9. It’s a leech. Period

  10. Are they as bad as they say they are? I have them in my shrimp tank but i dont know how to get rid of them

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