WTF is this???

[Mr.dempsey]

So I have a 5 gallon planted tank with shrimp init and hasn't been changed in over 6 months(and that was just moving plants around in the tank so its more like a year) , so while cleaning the filter today i found something living in it! Freaked me out lol but i got some pics of it and hopefully you guys can ID it for me, my dad is saying it might be a dragon fly larva but how the heck would that get in there.

 

[KellyFrancis]

Oh! How odd...Its cool though!

 

[Mr.dempsey]

Yeah sorry i didn't mean to post in the salt and brackish section i didn't notice i was in the wrong section, or maybe it's the right section lol im not to sure where this all into place

 

[Kaosu]

looks like a dragon fly larva

 

[skooby]

Yea I would say df larva

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[Oddball]

It's a damselfly nymph. The trilobe tail is actually the larva's gills. Damselflys look somewhat like dragonflys. Difference being, at rest, dragonflys hold their wings out (perpendicular) to the body (like plane wings). Damselflys hold their wings close to (parallel) the body.

 

[petspoiler]

^why I wanna visit Oddballs' fish room someday^
Imagine what he could do with super fascinating creatures... the kind we pay for.
:-]

 

[Mr.dempsey]

Sooooo......... how did it get into my tank? lol Thanks for the replys guys

 

[petspoiler]

the egg got sucked inside... or whatever comes first.
Oddball knows all that.

 

[aquaponicpaw]

^why I wanna visit Oddballs' fish room someday^
Imagine what he could do with super fascinating creatures... the kind we pay for.
:-]

+1
Do You have in the fish in the tank? I would put a micro(?) in there just to combat such a thing. It would freak me out too.