Not sure if this one’s going to the Tavern, but I figured I would seek the expert counsel of this panel.
What kind of worm can survive in the bottom of a toilet for weeks and how does it get there?
Working in one of my rentals today. My helper lifts the toilet seat and there’s a very live worm squirming around in the (clean) water in the bottom of the toilet. It looked like it was about 2-3 inches long and maybe one-eighth inch wide. It was red, reminded me of a thin earthworm. Sorry, no camera and it went bye-bye.
Nobody’s been living in this house for about 3 months. There have been a few people that had the key to look at it for rental, but I believe the last one that had a key was maybe two weeks ago. If somebody “dropped” it in there, how could it survive for a couple weeks? How else could it get there? What might it be?
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations – New Construction – Rentals
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What might it be? .... history...
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It probably hadn't been there long; chances are it wriggled in through the soil pipe and fell into the water when it cleared the top of the trap bend.
Genus & specie? Probably g. varietas....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
I don't know how any thing could travel through a soil pipe any distance, including the vertical portion under a bowl, then up inside the porcelin trap. It sure wasn't tired when we saw it...
Since when did you become familiar with worms? Or is that a byproduct of your research into the Canadian legal system? :-)
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
I don't know how any thing could travel through a soil pipe any distance, including the vertical portion under a bowl, then up inside the porcelin trap. It sure wasn't tired when we saw it...
It was probably refreshed by the swim....
Remember the soil pipe is empty except when actually being flushed; a worm could easily wriggle up it along the drainage slope. About the vertical riser up to the throne itself, I dunno; but after a number of years, the accumulated scale and crâp inside a drain pipe can get pretty corrugated. Might be enough to enable some Sir Edmund Wormary to make it to the Summit....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
did anyone hear the worm say "because it's there"!
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Wonder what that would sound like echoing down thru the pipe and septic tank. Probably make Don think he had the Loch Ness Monster comin' at him....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Hey Don,
That's quite common actually, I find them all the time.
Rusty, my lab likes to dig in the dirt. I think he occasionally gets small worms embedded between his paw pads. After he goes #2, and wipes himself, they become dislodged and then fall into the water as he operates the flush handle.
My lab doesn't always flush, plus she uses too much paper. Any tips?
Trim his dog gone toenails! They break right through that flimsy Exxon TP. Why do you think the worms hitch a ride between his paws anyways man?Sheesh.
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Hey Piff,Rusty really took offense to the nail comment. Says he folds the paper 12 times.
for once there's a dog that's not drinking the water.
Either your terlit doesn't have a lid, or Rusty is getting himself in really big trouble right now...
Everybody is born a hero.
Love tht shower curtain with the model from Liquid Nails! LOL
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I had to take a 2nd look at that shower curtain myself! Yowza Yowza!
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<Love tht shower curtain with the model from Liquid Nails! >
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Forrest
I'm an old man now, but I have my memories....;)
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Next shower curtain I get, I want one just like that !!
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tiz a mystery I tell ya, tiz a misstree, Don In my younger days when me and some kinfolk would be hunting for mountain springs for fresh water, I would occasionally find a spring high up on a mountain with just the slightest amount of water escaping from it above ground, yet there would be minnows and newts living in the water, we are talking about springs hundreds of feet higher in elevation than the creeks they fed. I can understand how the spring lizards got there as they can travel over dry ground for away, but how in the heck did the fish get there ?
Is that rental on muniscipal sewer, or private septic system. I use to help a friend who pumped septic tanks out for a living and I have seen earth worms thu moles come up into peeps toilets ----most were wearing garlands of corn and mater skin scarfs --lol-- sorry had to throw that one in..
Heard once that fish eggs can stick to the feet and feathers of ducks and water birds, this a possible reason fish can be found in isolated ponds and lakes.
Can you imagine the life of the one little sardine whose egg gets dropped in a remote pond.Who then grows up, and does sardine-y stuff and eats sardine-y food... and never knows there are other sardines in the world....???Maybe it would try to be a newt, or a tadpole, because that is the only thing it knows as 'normal'...
Everybody is born a hero.
You have WAY too much time on your hands...
Look who has the time to tell me that.;o)
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<Can you imagine the life of the one little sardine whose egg gets dropped in a remote pond. Who then grows up, and does sardine-y stuff and eats sardine-y food... and never knows there are other sardines in the world....>
Ever occur to ya' that's just what we're all like here on earth?
Forrest - staring into the night sky
Why do you think I wrote it ?;o)
Everybody is born a hero.
I was having a good morning till I read your post, now I'm bumed out, don't even want to go to work.
Oh,,,,,,,,, the cruelty of nature!
Excuse me, I just have to take a moment.
Hey Buddy-
The system is mine and mine alone. Maybe I should say it's ours, after all, the worm was closer to it than me. And for the record, the critter was buck nakid! No corn or termaters.
For what it's worth, I haven't gotten any e-mails from you in a while. If you sent one last week, send it again.
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
I wonder if they can be trained.
"You can't roller skate in a Buffalo herd." Roger Miller
What do you want them to do?
LMAO!I wuz thinking that a trained worm could go after Gunner's toothbrush!;)
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You are reading my mind. :)
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Gunner,
I knew, that somehow, anything involving toilets would wind up with some response from you. (G) In light of the fact that you have/had a stopped up toilet, I really knew you would be on this thread.
Thank you for proving to me that I can be right once in a while.
Don K.
Glad to help. Now you got me to thinking. If they can train monkeys to fly space ships. I wonder if they can train sea monkeys to swim upstream and pull stuff out of toilets?
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looks like one of yur tape worms got loose...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
IMERC -
I don't know what a tapeworm looks like and have only a vague memory of it form back in 7th grade health class, back when Lincoln was president. They probably look totally different by now, evolution and all that -- okay, I'll try to look up tapeworms on the Google. (Had to be frikken scientific, did ya?)
Don K
it was a guess and I tried to help...
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There's a critter called a hair snake, I see them swiming in the dogs water dish outside once in a while, they would fit your discription.
Or maybe your former tennant needed wormed.
Can't a hair snake crawl right into a pore in a person's skin ?
Everybody is born a hero.
I'm not up on hair snakes, but if one could crawl in a pore I suppose it makes sense that it could crawl out a bigger opening when it became an adult. If they timed it right they could end up in the toilet.