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I'm a smart arse I know, but: Popular legend has it that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy following his exploration of the Far East in the late 13th century; however, we can trace pasta back as far as the fourth century B.C., where an Etruscan tomb showed a group of natives making what appears to be pasta. The Chinese were making a noodle-like food as early as 3000 B.C. And Greek mythology suggests that the Greek God Vulcan invented a device that made strings of dough (the first spaghetti!). Pasta made its way to the New World through the English, who discovered it while touring Italy. Colonists brought to America the English practice of cooking noodles at least one half hour, then smothering them with cream sauce and cheese. But it was Thomas Jefferson who is credited with bringing the first "maccaroni" machine to America in 1789 when he returned home after serving as ambassador to France. The first industrial pasta factory in America was built in Brooklyn in 1848 by, of all people, a Frenchman, who spread his spaghetti strands on the roof to dry in the sunshine.thank you for the offer, no need, I know where I can get them now I know what they are, cheersI just got an answer back from Christina, 'the' professor on the German Axolotl forum. they will not harm your frogs, they are the creatures mentioned in my first post, if you change the water or put an air stone in they will disappear. this little bugger do not like clean water but they like your frogs excretions. Google translation (very poor): Swamp worm, Spirostomum teres The swamp worm, length up to 400 microns, is rarely encountered in the plankton of a nutrient-poor waters. It feeds on bacteria and therefore loves eutrophic waters, where he liked staying in the mud. In Spirostomum it is not, as the name suggests falsely to worms, but relatively large ciliates, Ciliata., The entire body is covered with eyelashes that are visible on this recording quite well. Tip: The water from flower vases you can discover one of the three types of Spirostomum often after a few days. OT question, what are the plants you have in the tank with your old, half blind Axolotl ? (YouTube vid)could it be something like this ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirostomum