Natures lil miracles. A cycling experiment.

[crabbysd]

My mind is a bit blown.
In October I planned a tank for a friend who's house I stay at when I work. I took completely dry rock and dry sand well rinsed and added old tank water and fijimud in a five gallon bucket with a powerhead an put it in my basement garage to cycle. I changed the water once and added a little tank water at some point.
Life went completely off the tracks. And now it's June. I set up a quarantine tank last night, took five minutes. Added the sand and water and this morning I found this in the cup full of rubble.
Worms. Live worms.

[crabbysd]

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[Kris]

Clearly proves that Spontaneous Generation is a fact!

I found the same kind of worm in my bucket of cycling (6 months) live rock, I suspect they may form cysts, or maybe came in with your mud?

I didn't expect anything to live 6 months in a bucket except a few microbes.

[crabbysd]

Yup pretty amazing. A completely dry cycle too.
Ranks up there with the schools of mysis shrimp in my tank. Where does that stuff come from. Scripps frozen foo LR?
Neat nerd stuff.