Detritus worms are annelid worms and are very similar ... ones are safe for your particular breed of fish. Invertebrate species like snails and shrimp are particularly at-risk and should be ...

If you’re a fish lover and think you know all there is to this lovely aquatic animal, here’s a shocker: you probably don’t. For starters, no one even knows how many different types of fish there are ...

This particular species of spaghetti worm has yet to be officially named ... colorful tentacles to catch the tiny pieces of organic detritus, also known as marine snow, that it feeds on, according ...

The paper, published Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters, describes the new species at length ... done so far show the worm feeding off plankton and other nutritious detritus in the water.

By clearing the forest floor of normal plants and leaf detritus, the worms encourage erosion and make it easier for other invasive species to gain a root-hold. It also eradicates the natural ...

So it uses that, that mucus to trap the, the detritus to basically, yeah, it's sort of like a sticky, sticky trap. - [Host] Here's another weird thing about spoon worms. A larger species known as ...

Detritus is a basic food for many organisms ... Some of these worms crawl through the mud, eating as they go. Other species of worms build complex tubes to serve as their homes.

Vast numbers of the tiny black worms emerge on summer afternoons and evenings to feed on algae, microbes, and other detritus on the ... though another similar species has been found in Tibet.

As invasive creatures, the earth­worms ... detritus to mineral compounds and thereby potentially robs plants of organic nutrients. Not all foreign earthworms are destructive. Of the 5,000 species ...

There are several species in the river ... small fish and detritus. Detritus is the decaying plant material on the bottom that is also home to a variety of worms and other organisms.

No earthworms are native to North America's northern forests (massive ice age glaciers kept the land worm-free). But in the years since settlers arrived, 15 earthworm species have appeared in ...