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paris
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im guessing this is the category to choose for posting about leeches. they come with my black worm shipments and are usually the last thing left over when most the worms are gone. one thing i noticed was that if i got a hold of bad water the leeches were good indicators cause they die before the black worms. i have been wondering for a while how they survived in the worm tanks w/o food (ie. fresh blood sources) to eat. these are smaller whitish ones that exhibit parental care and keep their babies on their bellies.(sort of like wood lice). anyways-since i had so many -and they seemed to mysteriously multiply, well i was wondering what might like them, i offered them to P waltls , and they loved them! same with T marmorauts, and my P chinensis....anyways so ok, newts like to eat them, here is the oddity i should have seen coming....well i dropped some black worms into the set up that i had axie morphs in, which i figured the the lack of black worms was due to the getting eaten by the axie larvae...but......well right after i dropped in the black worms they started to thrash about a lot-along with the leeches, i watched closely and observed that the leeches were actually attacking/eating the black worms!...so mystery solved-that is where most of my black worms went-to feed free loading blood suckers!
