WTF is this?

A buddy of mine called me up, said he has something swimming in his res.
1st thing I did was tell him he's crazy, but he insisted. Since he doesnt live far, I went and looked. This is what I found. Wtf is it? and how do you get rid of them?

Looks like a leach...I dont do hydro so thats my input

Dannoo93

It's black with red and looks like little hairs coming out of it.

looks like a leach to me too.

Yup baby leech. Where did he get his water, a swamp. Put a couple of frogs in there they can feed off them and they will leave the plants alone.

Nope not leaches. lol
They're lil larvae of some kind. I checked the roots and they're nice and white. But there's a few of the larvae or whatever in the roots.
He's ru.ning a flood n drain system

I fish with leeches and have never seen one with hairs on it.

Reminds me more of one of those big nasty silver fish...get them out and kill them..yuck

nuke it from space; that's the only way to be sure

ITS THE GERMANS, or a STD

Your responses just reminded me of the movie the faculty lol

yeah that looks like some kind of alien..... I'd kill it before it slides down your buddies throat and pops out his chest as a vicious little demon.

It's definitely not a leech because it looks nothing like my ex-wife.

So no one has an idea what they are?
Are they root aphids, fungus gnat larvae?

that good sir is what i would call a problem 0_0

That's what I thought, just trying to find out what and how to take care of it.
So far his plants look healthy, roots are white. The plants are 6wks in flower on an 8 wk strain.

I think it's actually a slug.

In case it is a leach, this sounds weird, but I'm not fucking with you, leaches are sterile, they are used in surgury. Hold it in your hand a while, if it tries to bite you, it's a leach.

I looked at it under a 60x scope . The best way I can describe it is it looks like a black maggot.
They're about a qtr in long, cylindrical bodies, tapered on both ends. The body has lil red lines and what looks like hairs.
They're in his roots, and don't seem to like it when they're in water.

That's what I was gonna say, are you sure it's not a tiny slug? If he's at week six on an 8 week strain and it's doing fine, then I probably wouldn't worry too much. Whatever it is doesn't seem to be fucking them up so I'd try and get as many out as I could and ride it out.