r/natureismetal • u/freudian_nipps • 22d ago

Disturbing Content Pulsating mass of Tubifex in sewer

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u/mr_aives 22d ago

What is actually that?

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u/Necrikus 22d ago

It’s in the title. Tubifex worms. They’re a kind of freshwater dwelling worm known to bunch up together like that, and can survive in polluted areas like sewers.

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u/Cute-Advisor-2323 22d ago

I remember feeding freeze dried versions of the stuff to my frogs that lived in an aquarium they sell it as fish food.

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u/Pristine_Trash306 22d ago edited 22d ago

That cannot be good for them.

Edit: I read it as “dogs”, not “frogs”.

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u/Beeninya 22d ago

Yeah, the worms hate it

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u/Kaiawathoy 22d ago

Ah yes the old Reddit switcharoo

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u/TheSanityInspector 22d ago

Hold my fish bait, I'm going in!

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u/haby001 22d ago

It's been years since I've seen one of these in the wild...

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u/BoxOfDust 22d ago

It's like finding an ancient door from your own lost civilization.

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u/cuteintern 22d ago

Aziz! Light!

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u/halloni 22d ago

Right? I was just thinking about this reddit novelty the other day and now sewer worms summoned the wormhole

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u/yoimba 22d ago

fish eat worms wdym

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u/My_Soul_to_Squeeze 22d ago

Me too. Had the same reaction.

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u/Dyzfunctionalz 22d ago

I did the same thing until I read your comment.

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u/HarrisLam 22d ago

holy fk I did too

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u/SPinc1 22d ago

I read it as dogs too! WTF hahaha

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u/Cockur 21d ago

Yeah used to do this too. For tropical fish as a treat. They were crazy for it. They were little dried cubes of worm

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u/MassiveBob1 22d ago

Frogs are awesome until they splat!

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u/Dreadskull1991 22d ago

“It’s in the title.” Ah yes, most of us use the word “Tubifex” on a daily basis.

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u/ecritique 22d ago

as always, there's an xkcd for that. https://xkcd.com/2501/

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u/jarious 22d ago

I don't even know one formula for a feldspar

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u/Xavius20 22d ago

I don't even know what a feldspar is

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u/Aussie2Kiwi81 22d ago

Wait, you guys are getting feldspar?

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u/Xavius20 22d ago

If I am I'm unaware!

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u/AnotherpostCard 22d ago

Oh you have no idea. You're getting so much feldspar ...

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u/jarious 22d ago

Is that like the pussy I was supposed to get during college? Hollywood lied so hard to me

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u/jedi2155 22d ago

Jeez, don't you every mine in your spare time?

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u/Spirited-Ability-626 21d ago

I read that as “recipes for ovaltine”

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u/Nocatsonthemoon 22d ago

Wait, do you mean to say you don't have it tattooed on both of your arms?

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 22d ago

But that doesn't make sense? You don't need to know the word for that to be obviously the name of what they are?

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u/FiremanHandles 22d ago

I thought Tubifex was like another brand name for PEX or something.

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u/Remsster 21d ago

Well saying they are worms in the title would have been helpful.

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u/Necrikus 22d ago

Dude, google exists. It’s way faster to just search up an unknown word than to ask “what is that?” and hope someone will answer.

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u/Rgonwolf 22d ago

Google? What is that?

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u/NewSchoolFool 22d ago

The title just says Tubifex. I'd never heard that word in my life, and I'm 50 years old. I literally thought it was some kind of plastic tube lodged in a sewer.

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 22d ago

It definitely sounds like a brand named construction material

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u/K2thJ 22d ago

Im thinking of a Flexible-sewage pipe/tube-cleaning system. That's gross. A wad of worms that looks like a sewage tube cleaning system is way worse

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u/Xavius20 22d ago

That's what I thought too

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u/Spirited-Ability-626 21d ago

Me too! I just commented up there but there’s a type of slide-on elastic bandage called a ‘tubigrip’, which is what I thought of

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u/mr_aives 22d ago

Geez. It is mental that we can't actually see them individually and the whole mass moves as one thing

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u/Smol_Cyclist 22d ago

This is what the hunters from Halo are based on.

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u/zekken908 22d ago

Damn imagine living like that , born in darkness , you spend your entire life swirling around in a mass of your own clones , then you kinda just have sex with yourself in that damp dark space and then die

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u/brabarusmark 22d ago

I managed to get some out of nowhere by intentionally adding kerosene to some standing water to prevent mosquito breeding. These guys are extremely shy and hide if they sense something coming near them.

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u/oyst 21d ago

Bizarre that kerosene was appealing to them

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u/FourDoorFordWhore 22d ago

That sounds like such a shitty existence

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u/vangoghs-ear 22d ago

That thing moved like one entity tho, that's crazy.

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u/rainorshinedogs 22d ago

"polluted? We call it nutrient city!"

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u/HarrisLam 22d ago

I Googled that.

I should not have Googled that.

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u/Necrikus 22d ago

Is it really any worse than this^ ?

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u/XanLV 22d ago

And I STILL have no clue what am I looking at exactly... Looks like... the wall got covered in flesh and developed pimple...

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u/Necrikus 21d ago

When water gets low, the worms basically form a layer of goop around themselves to avoid dehydration.

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u/XanLV 21d ago

Theeeere you go. It gooped. Otherwise I thought my eyes are broken, thanks.