These are wild collected worms from a small farm pond (small pond and small farm) and I was wondering if anyone could ID any of them

Album at http://picasaweb.google.com/113298704761943818357/Fish# so you can zoom in

Small white worms about 3 or 4 mm

Long brown/red worms about 30-50mm by ~1mm, seem to poke out of substrate a lot and don't move/wave very much but there is some movement

very thin brown-ish worms about 15mm? long and maybe .25mm wide, move alot when out of the substrate (behind the small white worms, hard to see)

Also caught were lots of free swimming mayfly, damselfly larvae and a few dragonfly larvae

In the last pic, what on earth is that big creepy thing? Is it a dragonfly larvae? Or a spider x mantis?

In the last pic, what on earth is that big creepy thing? Is it a dragonfly larvae? Or a spider x mantis?

Yep a spider x mantis :digH:

It's a dragonfly larvae

it's so big and tough looking, i've never seen one

are the red/brown ones tubifex?

Oooh those red ones are blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus)

They're the staple food for my Apistogrammas. I culture them in a small tank on the floor in my bedroom.

Simon wrote an article on how to culture them which is in one of the aquarium world magazines.

the third pic is of my sink after i trim my beard :sage: :rotf:

Yea Joe is correct, the red ones are Lumbriculus variegatus.

Grow them for food for you Natives. They will love you for it.

At a guess I would say the white ones may be planaria.

Nope the little ones aren't planaria, I know what they are, and there are several in the samples that I collected. The would be just under 2x the size of microworms

I was going to breed the worms up for the natives (and the others, WCMM and now c. sterbai). The WCMM went mad for the little white ones when I put them in their tank.