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Strange fish/parasite

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  • 31-07-2011 7:27pm
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    nyarlthotepful
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭


    I was housesitting recently and I found what appeared to be a tadpole like creature in the toilet bowl. It was swimming around and had to be about 2cm long. I was wondering what exactly it was as I was more than a little frightened by it. Has anyone ever come across anything like this?


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    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,680 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    Did you take pictures?


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    nyarlthotepful
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭nyarlthotepful


    Unfortunately not. I was so freaked out by it that I almost immediately flushed the toilet.


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    GHOST MGG2
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    omg! you killed a rare mutant spermatozoa that was in someone elses toilet!....
    me shudders to think what could have placed it there:-p:P:P:P


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    nyarlthotepful
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭nyarlthotepful


    GHOST MGG2 wrote: »
    omg! you killed a rare mutant spermatozoa that was in someone elses toilet!....
    me shudders to think what could have placed it there:-p:P:P:P

    Ha. I did think that while I was looking at it. It was so strange!


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    darjeeling
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    Someone reported something similar last year, and the consensus was it was a rat-tailed maggot (aka a hoverfly larva).

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68022867


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    nyarlthotepful
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭nyarlthotepful


    darjeeling wrote: »
    Someone reported something similar last year, and the consensus was it was a rat-tailed maggot (aka a hoverfly larva).

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68022867

    It could have been that but it was somewhat browner looking. Either way, I don't envy the people who own the house.


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    GHOST MGG2
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    nyarlthotepful wrote: »
    It could have been that but it was somewhat browner looking. Either way, I don't envy the people who own the house.

    Maybe someone "took a dump" on it..........this is getting gross!:P


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    Dan_Solo
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    "They obtain air by extending their snorkel like tail breathing tubes to reach the water surface.breaking it with feathery hairs which emerge from the tube"

    Even maggots can't breathe in a toilet that filthy!:eek:


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    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭sudzs


    nyarlthotepful wrote: »
    I was housesitting recently and I found what appeared to be a tadpole like creature in the toilet bowl. It was swimming around and had to be about 2cm long. I was wondering what exactly it was as I was more than a little frightened by it. Has anyone ever come across anything like this?

    Maybe it was a tadpole!

    My parents occasionally find bemused frogs in the loo! We reckon they must get in via the septic tank. Did the house have a septic tank?


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