Weird Object Found in Water

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 10:02pm #1

Hi,

I hope somebody could help me with this.

This has happened to us twice now recently and both times to my girlfriend. I'll try to be as detailed as possible so someone might know what it is.

First time, about three or four weeks ago she was drinking a glass of water and about half way through she noticed a bit floating at the top of it. It was about 1cm long and had a thin vein or spine running down it, kind of translucent and had a small fleshy but thin body on the end. Kind of like a string of tabacco or, what I first thought it to be, a bit of snot.
She didn't finish that glass of water anyway, decided to leave it over night to see if this weird object changes shape or anything. It didn't. It wasn't moving or anything but could definitely hold up to the water.
So we chucked it out and I thought no more about it until tonight.
She was having a glass of coke with dinner and half way down the glass noticed the very same mystery object floating on top of her drink. Almost identical to the one from the other week. This time I took it out of the glass and took a couple photos of it.

It doesn't move but it does look like it's some sort of large flea or something.
This glass of coke had ice in it. Ice that came originally from our tap as did the glass of water previous.
My only logical conclusion is that these things are in our tap water. We live in North Cork City, not an area known for having bad quality water, I actually like the taste of it. But now I'm concerned a bit.
How many of these have I drank unknowingly, and might they be parasites of some sort?

These were the clearest photos I could take with my camera so they're a bit blurry but hopefully it gives an idea and can be identified.

Thanks

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 10:04pm

Boards won't let you post images over 4mb in size so blurry will have to do

Mech1 · 22-01-2018 10:07pm

seahorse?

Alun · 22-01-2018 10:09pm

Mech1 wrote: »

seahorse?

Looks like it, but how on earth would something like that end up in a domestic water supply?

fritzelly · 22-01-2018 10:09pm

First thought was seahorse as well, right kind shape

[Deleted User] · 22-01-2018 10:10pm

I'd say face hugger

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 10:19pm

I'm fairly confident it isn't a seahorse because it has no definition to it.
My best bet is some sort of water flea.

I'm going to be buying a Brita anyway!

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 10:22pm

I can see where you're getting sea horse from though.

What looks like a face is just the same as the tail. It's like one long spine going all the way through it and the body is just a fleshy kind of see through lump.

It's just so weird how this exact same thing has shown up twice now, the last one was almost identical

fritzelly · 22-01-2018 10:23pm

Is your cold water mains fed?

amber2 · 22-01-2018 10:28pm

http://www.generalanalytical.ie

They test your water, don’t know how much it costs though.

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 10:42pm

The water is mains fed alright. Thinking maybe it could have been after all the flooding the water supply could have been a little contaminated.

Thanks for the link!

CardinalJ · 22-01-2018 10:45pm

Check your dishwasher filter? Is there something sprouting in a pipe or something....

fritzelly · 22-01-2018 11:00pm

Mixer tap? Sealed water tank?

JoeyJoe93 · 22-01-2018 11:30pm

I live in a flat so I don't have a dishwasher or much knowledge about the water source. It's not a mixer tap anyway. Maybe it could do with replacing anyway, god knows how long it's been there before I got here.