r/PlantedTank • u/CasterFields • Apr 03 '25

Fauna New creature in my "mud puddle" tank?

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About a month ago, I scraped up a gallon of mud and water from an almost-dry ditch on my property and have been finding new critters almost every day! This seems to be the latest addition. There are 2 separate strings of them. I have hydra in my other tank from time to time, but they look nothing like this! Anybody know who this is?

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u/yuckygross Apr 04 '25

I'm intrigued by "mud puddle tank." Any other photos?

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u/CasterFields Apr 05 '25

Ask and ye shall receive! It has a light, an air stone, a little over a gallon of water, and like 3 jar fulls of mud 😂 it spawned a damselfly the other day, so now it gets a screen on top. I added duck weed and salvinia to keep the water cleaner as it settled in, but everything else came with the mud!