sushant wrote:maaz wrote:look like white worms too me...
from whatever limited knowledge i have about white worms, i guess they require damp substrate and don't exist under water. Romi or Aamir would be able to give a better explanation for the same.
Sushant has made a simple but very clear point. I agree. We might know little but it is better to be sure of what we know.
Maaz had once made a thread where he declared he had white worms. If these worms are what he was talking about then, it means that he uses the term very generally. In the hobby of fish keeping a very specific species is called White Worms. That species is Enchytraeus buchholzi. The species in India that hobbyists like me and Arjun Tandon found must be from the same genus at least because it ate the same food, lived the same way, and needed cool temperatures as White Worms are know to do. Here is the wikipedia article on it for those who don't know but like to use the term for any worm-like creature that seems 'white' in appearance. They should read up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchytraeus_buchholzi
I wish Maaz had posted their pictures also as requested. Then their ID also could have been pursued. Confusion must be avoided because it damages the hobby and repells people who get irritated by the confusion and lack of reliable information.
I am 90% sure these are not an annelid worm, so they cannot be White Worms.
Sushant, Nematodes are not so foreign or strange as you might think. They are often dangerous parastic worms we have all learnt in school about the diseases they cause. They are common. Half of the known species are parasites in animals, human included, like pinworms, roundworms, ascaris, hookworms, whipworms. They are NOT the worms we fishkeepers should see as live food for sure!
what a coincidence i observed then 2-3 days back
. the identification s so narrow that they have included almost every aquatic Nematode 
