Natures lil miracles. A cycling experiment.

saltyfilmfolks

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Sorry if I'm at a loss for words here. My mind is a bit blown.
In October I planned a tank for a friend who's house I stay at when I work. I took completely dry rock and dry sand well rinsed and added old tank water and fijimud in a five gallon bucket with a powerhead an put it in my basement garage to cycle. I changed the water once and added a little tank water at some point.
Life went completely off the tracks. And now it's June. I set up a quarantine tank last night, took five minutes. Added the sand and water and this morning I found this in the cup full of rubble.
Worms. Live worms.
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I had planned on making a full thread on how I did it and probably still will. But I did not expect to find this.
 

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always interesting to see what pops up! could have been larvae in the old tank water or perhaps they were dormant in the mud!
 

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Thank you for posting my next link-to when someone debates again we have to ghost feed our tanks to keep bacteria alive

your worms on the macro scale had a much harder time finding feed, and they did.
 

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