utahano

[utahano]

Can someone help me identify what this is. I am staying in a cabin in Scotland and found these in the water from the shower yesterday after a plumbing leak (broken pipe) which allowed the water to get contaminated with dirt.

 

I thought an earthworm, but it looks to have legs.

 

Picture

[Reefkid88]

Looks to me like a millipede. 

 

 

[Ratvan]

Could be drain fly larvae, used to get them in the toilet where i lived before the utilities replaced the old water pipes, also seem to be very resistant to bleach 

[j.falk]

You have saltwater showers in Scotland?  🤯

[Tired]

I agree that it looks like a millipede. They can make a bad smell and will probably make the water taste bad if there are a lot, but they aren't dangerous. It was probably living in the dirt. 

 

However, this is a forum about saltwater reef aquariums. Try this Reddit thread for bug questions in the future. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/

[utahano]

The thing is it is really, really, really small and really skinny. I took this picture very zoomed in. Would millipedes be this tiny?

[Tired]

Yes, millipedes can be very small. It's either a little species, or a baby.

 

You can tell it's a millipede because it's segmented and rounded, has all those legs, and has a round head with 2 antennae.

[Reefkid88]

2 hours ago, utahano said:

The thing is it is really, really, really small and really skinny. I took this picture very zoomed in. Would millipedes be this tiny?

Yes,I have seen them from a 1/4"-1/2" all the way to over an inch. We get them bad here in Florida. When I went to go move my aunt from her house there was about 200 dead ones under hee guest bed. 

 

 Gave off a very weird,not nasty but weird smell. 

[j.falk]

19 minutes ago, Reefkid88 said:

When I went to go move my aunt from her house there was about 200 dead ones under her guest bed. 

* shudders *  😅

[Reefkid88]

21 minutes ago, j.falk said:

* shudders *  😅

It didn't help her apartment backed up to the woods,and she had tons of dead foliage lining her windows which caused them to come in thru a crack in the foundation of the building lol.