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Using these worms as a live food has come with certain problems over the years. When harvested from sewers, open bodies of water, and even from hatcheries, they may be infected with various diseases. This risk can be partially solved by keeping the worms under brisk running water until they have
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worms which can be obtained from nearby muddy canals or sewage canals. Within 15 days, clusters of worms develop and can be removed with mud in masses. When worms come to the surface due to lack of oxygen, they are collected and washed under brisk stream of water to remove residual mud attached to
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can be easily cultured on mass scale in containers with 50–75 mm thick pond mud at the bottom, blended with decaying vegetable matter and masses of bran and bread. Continuous, mild water flow is to be maintained in the container, with a suitable drainage system. After the arrangement of the
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worms are often used as a live food for fish, especially tropical fish and certain other freshwater species. They have been a popular food for the aquarium trade almost since its inception, and gathering them from open sewers for this purpose was quite common until recently. Most are now
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worms living there. The scene was later uploaded to YouTube under the title "Bar Rescue "Its natural spring water!" (MT Bottle)". Later in the episode, Taffer paid for a sewage system to irrigate and remove the excess water from the basement.
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worms undergo copulation by joining ventral and anterior surfaces together with their anterior ends pointing opposite directions. Thus, the spermathecal opening of each worm is nearer to the male
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of the other worm. After copulation, they separate and begin to produce egg cases containing eggs, called cocoons. The cocoon is formed around the
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IUZN (2007). "OPINION 2167 (Case 3305) NAIDIDAE Ehrenberg, 1828 (Annelida, Clitellata): precedence over TUBIFICIDAE Vejdovský, 1876 maintained".
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can become established as a pest species, covering the bottom of the aquarium in a thick carpet which may be considered unsightly.
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Stimpson, K.S.; Klemm, D.J. (1982). "A guide to the freshwater Tubificidae (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of North America".
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have been identified, with the exact number not certain, as the species are not easily distinguishable from each other.
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inspection of sewer piping under the Cameron Village shopping center, videos of the "creature" went
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commercially obtained from the effluent of fish hatcheries, or from professional worm farms.
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voided the contents of their digestive systems. However, the worms can still be vectors for
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as a soft, box-like structure into which the ova and the sperm are deposited. Soon, the
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n.sp. (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) with a preliminary reappraisal of the genus".
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worm withdraws its body from the egg case by its backward wriggling movements.
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are held together. At this stage, the sperm of one worm is passed into the
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of one worm penetrate into the tissues of other worm and thus the
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is avoided, and cross-fertilization is encouraged. Two mature
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are raised commercially, mainly for fish food: the reddish
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In 2013, an episode of the American television series
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and occasionally sewer lines. At least 13 species of
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Annelida
Pleistoannelida
Sedentaria
Clitellata
Tubificida

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