My tapeworm...or is is a flat, segmented worm of another class?

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Heh, the average person doesn't consider segmented flatworms to be worthy of keeping. Unless you're writing a research paper on them or something. You're special my friend. :thumbsup:

Definately a good conversation starter though:
"Dude, you gotta come over and check out my new tapeworm sometime!"
"Sure thing, just let m.. wait, what?" :ROFL:

How long is it btw? And looks like you have some Planaria in there with it? Wonder if you cut it in half if you end up with 2 like other kinds of worms.. You could have a colony going in no time. :naughty: Then go for size and have a Monster tapeworm tank set up. Those things can get over 30 feet... :headbang2
 
It's over six inches long. Yeah, I've added planaria and hydra to the vase too. This thing is awesome. Nano invert tank in the ghetto.
 
Found it I think:

Diphyllobothrium Latum - Broad Fish Tapeworm

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http://www.thelifetree.com/fishtapeworms.htm


Starts out in crustaceans, moves to fish, then to humans. Can attain lengths over 30 feet. :) Color can vary, it turns more white/grey the longer it gets.

I wouldn't drink the water, can produce more than a million eggs per day. Yum!
 
Woot! Awesome info! Taenia Pisiformis. Looking it up.
 
Actually not sure that pic is the right one. It's the one on that page, but the worm is called Diphyllobothrium Latum. Search images on that. Lot of them have the pinkish tint. Big ones and the formaldehyde preserved ones are white from what I saw. Not sure what Taenia Pisiformis is. Maybe another name for it or another similar worm..

K, I'm done looking up tapeworms now, and I'm never eating sushi again. :ROFL:
 
I was wondering if the name was wrong. Thanks for the new name.

Enjoy the sushi often! :D
 
I don't know exactly how to keep him alive outside a body, so I put a tiny chunk of chewable multivitamin in his vase. If I see him wrapped around it and surviving, I'll try that for awhile.

I wanna see you grow that thing out to 30ft.
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Me, too! But I don't know how to feed it! :( I'm not infecting anything with it so that's out. But I wonder if proprietary nutritional mixes like the one in hospitals would work. You know, the complete parenteral nutrition mix?
 
From what I just read they seem to eat B12.
The things can also lay up to 1,000,000 eggs a day. Be careful not to transfer even a molecule of that water to yourself or other fish.

Cheers. Bottoms up.
 
wow! And I was only joking around with you the day I said you were a wormologist or something like that? That's really cool looking and if you have kept it this long why not feed it like some feeders or something?I'd definitely subscribe to see what or how big this thing is or gets :popcorn: It looks like a giant bloodworm...then again...more like a black worm but red if that makes sense? Have you I.D.'d this thing yet?
Then again,feeding it a feeder would just become a host and disappear...hmmmmm....

EDIT: Okay i just read further and if it is a definite tapeworm then I'd advise killing the damn thing-fast.Not worth the risk. But then again...I am sure you aren't actually swimming with it so why not keep it and "grow it out" and then keep buying bigger tanks like we do for fish for the evil worm :headbang2
For now,just feed it massivore. Everything eats that LMAO
 
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