Worms in reptile's water

[Oxylepy]

So I noticed a few worms in my Mangrove's swimming area and sucked them up to check them out and ask what you guys think.

A little about the worms:
First of all they look like Earthworms and that would be fine, I'll just throw them in the dirt side, no harm no foul.

They are about an inch and a half long, pink and grey/brown and I can see through them for the most part. They have funnel shaped mouths that they are sticking in and out. They have striping down their bodies (segmented like earth worms). They have that band at one point behind their heads. They have red blood vessels and brown bits in their digestive systems. They can climb up the walls of the Cool Whip container I have them in. When I sucked them up and squirted them in the container they thrashed around a lot.

And here are some pictures






Edit: I have now become entranced watching their blood flowing right behind the band on them...

[WastelandExotics]

Awwwww they're kind of cute! Looks like their baby earthworms to me.

For more than you'd ever want to know about earthworms, here's a link:

http://animalsareamazing.com/Earthworm.html

Also, here's a picture of a baby earthworm for reference:


EDIT: curious, what are you using for substrate?

[Oxylepy]

Ecoearth, sand, aspen, and dirt mixed together. In other words, bioactive substrate, good for holding burrows, and houses a fistfull of different critters that help take care of things in there. One of the types of critters I noticed in the dirt were worms (which is intentional), as well as roly polies (pill bugs, potato bugs, woodlice), millipedes, and centipedes (which I always try to remove but they're just impossible to be rid of).

Edit: Perfect picture and a dead match, thanks.

[WastelandExotics]

Ecoearth, sand, aspen, and dirt mixed together. In other words, bioactive substrate, good for holding burrows, and houses a fistfull of different critters that help take care of things in there. One of the types of critters I noticed in the dirt were worms (which is intentional), as well as roly polies (pill bugs, potato bugs, woodlice), millipedes, and centipedes (which I always try to remove but they're just impossible to be rid of).

Edit: Perfect picture and a dead match, thanks.

Love enclosures with bio-active substrates, and now the worms make way more sense lol

Glad I could help.

[Oxylepy]

Thanks. I learned that with my sav. This time around, though, the proportions are right, leading to a much much much lighter substrate (50-70ish lbs) compared to the sav's 200lbs in 4/3rds of the volume. And because of the swimming area being somewhat larger than the dirt side, not to mention heated, the humidity is always high and I don't need to water the dirt to keep up the humidity.