What odd life forms have you found near your home?!

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knifegill

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I can't ID these, but the point of this thread is to discuss alien things you've found in water or in your tanks around your home.

I found them while netting daphnia and scuds. The floor was sand and littered with these little green algae balls! They remind me of jelly beans or pearls and reproduce by budding. I'm sticking a few in every body of water I have, cold and warm, to see if they will reproduce!

They crush into a poofy cloud and are actually smooth and shiny. There's a little dust on them in the pics.
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Those look really cool! i ripped up carpet with my friend, and some spots were sorta wet and it was like there was colony's of some bizarre slug like stuff...I don't know if I'll ever, EVER buy a house with carpet...never mind sleep in one with it.
 
I feel like puking everytime i think about it. However, It does look like you're very good at using google, or already had an idea of what you were looking at. I could imagin this would be very good for Seeding a tank? it says here "unusual ability to lie dormant for long periods of time and abruptly recover metabolic activity when rehydrated with liquid water."

srsly sometimes life is amazing.
 
any clue how any of you guys got them? I have a feeling water here in Canada is too cold to support them :( despite how resilient they are.
 
I was fishing in a pond nearby and I reeled my line up. On my hook on a piece of pond weed was this bright orange bug with eight legs, it had an elongated body and the wings seemed to have some sort of hairs all over them. It was about 1-2" long
 
bright orange bug with eight legs, it had an elongated body and the wings seemed to have some sort of hairs all over them.
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Weirdness! I wonder if it was about to morph into a flighted insect.

any clue how any of you guys got them? I have a feeling water here in Canada is too cold to support them :( despite how resilient they are.
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I found mine in a puddle by the railroad track.
 
I say these weird sulgs thing under a log in my back yard.....:yuck:
 
The ones I found were in an irrigation ditch, sounds like they can live anywhere there is a little water and sunlight
 
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