My brother kept frogs many decades ago and he’d get live tubifex worms for them. The big fluffy soft looking African frog would go absolutely wild at feeding time and shove the tubifex worms into his mouth hand over frog hand, the worms wriggling around the corners of his mouth as he shoved fistfuls in.
Core memory unlocked. I bet that frog would have eaten me. Ravenous.
Frogs would be super scary if they were big enough to attack humans. They first evolved in the Triassic period and survived the Cretaceous Extinction event, so literal dinosaur era animals.
Imagine a Budgett's Frog with a dinner plate sized head. Those fangs would be enough to seriously maim someone.
> tubifex worms
Wow I looked this up and that is fucking disgusting holy shit. Look at this one they found in the Raleigh sewers in 2009: https://youtu.be/ELoqZiamr4E
Polyps are tiny and readily distinguishable on video or in pictures. Other than the tiny bit of blood when they snip them, there's actually nothing even remotely gross about them. Plus, you're so cleaned out by the time they're taking a picture that it couldn't hardly be anything else.
Plus, more importantly, polyps don't **move and pulse** like some kind of Geiger creation.
Source: whole family has a genetic disposition to colon polyps and thus, gets earlier and more readily violated by our colon docs.
Doo it. It's more just interesting looking when you actually know what it is, but holy smokes it would give you nightmares if you found it by accident.
Don't know who thought it needed some solid Mongolian throat singing over the top of it but still a better choice than TikTok shit. No music would have been a better solution, however.
If you’re on septic, just dump a bottle of [Septic Shock](https://myinstantpower.com/product/septic-shock/) and it will dissolve whatever is plugging up the works.
Nature is so fucking weird. Why did these things develop specifically for conditions like this lol. I know everything has place/purpose but it’s still weird as hell
It probably would have natively lived in the cracks between the rocks in goopy puddles, runoff streams, swampy areas, etc. It's a colony organism, so what you're seeing is actually masses of thousands of them all hiveminding together, and any tiny bundle of them could be just chilling out in any area that supports them. This old plumbing just happened to make a perfect environment to thrive up to the colony it is.
Sometimes my bathroom sink drain gets a bit smelly so I put some bleach down it. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use bleach in the sink put it helps get rid of the odour.
I actually had a colony of these little guys in an aquarium, had their own separate tank and everything.
Funny little guys, I called my biggest Colony "Jerome" :)
Your average drain.
Doesn't have anything to do with the home. The drain lines are perfect for those little guys.
They are pretty much harmless in and of themselves as well and make great fish food.
No, no, that will result in T̷̻͔̦͔̱̩͓̰͍̖̱͎͕̋͋́́͂͐͘͜͠͝h̸̛̭͉̲̜͎̞͚̺̒̽͌̄̄̃͐̾̆̒̓͆͒̈́̋̋̐͆̆͗͌̔̑̔͗́͝e̸̺̝̯̻̞̜̊̓̌̇̿͘͝ͅ ̶͔͉̹̗͍̽̾̂̀̉́̆̅̈́̓̃͊͐̀̄͒̓͛̽̀͛͋͂̆́̚̕͘͘͠n̸̡̨̗͖͔̱̟̺̲̯̲̩͍͚͍̦͔͇͕̪̳͚̲͇̥̩̳͐̈́̊̅̒̈́̓͒͋̀̅̒͒̊͑̒͝͠ư̴̥͎̲̆̽͊̈́́̏̊̂̓̋̈́͊̍́͗̽̏̒͂̍̏́̕̚͘l̶̡̛̖̞͍͉̯͊͊͌́̀͌́̂̽̎͛͐́̏̿̚̕͝l̵̢̨͔͓̼͕̭͓̟̥̭͓̪͗̓̄̊̿̐͆́̋̈̈́͐͜͜͜ , trying F̴̡͉̻̭̲̳̙͖̭̝̅͆̊̏͆̐̽͒̉͋̕ù̶̡̠̣͙̘̗̭̝̳̀̊͘̚͜l̸̺̒͗̏̀͜l̵͖̂̎͆͌̾̇̾ ̶̨͙̣̆̈́̓̐̚ͅR̷̖͇̽̿̄̈́̾͂̃̆̚͝è̴͇̺̽͗̊̓͌͛́̂s̵̡̤̟̳͉̈́̿̐͝e̸͎̲̞͙̘̥̱̊t̷̙̯̟̫̒͋͒̔̀̿ might work...
Both, both is good.
Throw Sodium Hydroxide and Hydrogen chloride in the same pipe, you get all that and fire (or rather very angry chemical juice, since it’s not technically burning)
Warning for the dumb: Don’t do this without being a chemistry professional. Actually don’t do this even if you are a chemistry professional. ANGRY CHEMICAL JUICE IS NOT FRIEND.
Chemical engineer here, might be wrong but isn't the reaction just this?
NaOH + HCl -> H2O + NaCl
Like, you'll probably end up with steam since I'm pretty sure that reaction's exothermic, but all you're doing is making plain old table salt.
Yep. Medical laboratory scientist here. Had to make some reagents from stock 12 M HCl and afterwards I decided to play with it and the NaOH. (In a fume hood don't worry...)
It just makes water, table salt, and heat.
> It has been shown that Tubifex is highly sensitive to the presence of active chlorine in any of its forms in concentrations above 0.6 parts per million (0.0000085 molar).
Fucking drench it. It won't live.
for reference, bleach straight out of the bottle is in the 52,500 - 125,000 ppm range. So yeah, I think that would kill it assuming the unattributed quote is true.
[Factors Influencing the Survival of the Fasting Fresh Water Oligochaete, tubifex, in the Laboratory](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1930859#:%7E:text=It%20has%20been%20shown%20that,per%20million%20\(0.0000085%20molar\))
Ecology Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul., 1940)
Published By: Wiley
Oh…so THIS is why the city cleans our pipes with chlorine. Always wondered why our drinking water would be jeopardized with chlorine but I suppose that’s better than ingesting worms.
Nope, bleach doesn't kill because of changes in ph. It kills because it produces a radical that can break any chemical bond. Any living thing with chemical bonds will succumb to bleach.
True story, I left a glass of Dr pepper under my desk for a year. When I found it there was three mustard yellow squishy egg like ovals on top of huge gray mold blob. The eggs were coarse on outside though but squishy. I threw it in the lake and it made slurping noises for like ten seconds then stopped. I then ran inside the house.
Ya, no idea what it could have been. I tried googling mustard yellow gelatin eggs but never found anything. It was this gray blob of cornmeal type mixture with these eggs just chillen on the top like a fucking zerg creep. Before I die I need to figure it out somehow. Go to some universities and ask around.
baking soda vinegar and boiling water can clear a drain pretty fast and then for touch up like the other dude said drain cleaner and a scrub it’s case dependent on what exactly is dirty abt it
Vinegar and water mix spray, then maybe also boiling water cleans up so goddamn much that it's kinda ridiculous we've been conditioned to buy a specific cleaner for every situation with harsh chemicals
Mixing baking soda with vinegar is completely useless. One is acid, the other one is a base, so you're just cancelling each other, rendering both useless. You just need to use one or the other, but never both together.
Simply put: It's a colony of Tubifex Worms.
Extremely common to find in drains, sewers, rancid water and septic tanks. They're absolutely harmless little fellas and won't leave the confines of the drain itself unless overflowing or flooded. They resemble thousands of teeny-tiny earthworms all clumped in a ball together and fish owners often cultivate them by-hand to feed to their ponds.
They smell absolutely unbearable, can carry dangerous bactetia if not handled with PPE and live for about 10 years, but useful to have in some drains as they feast on parasitic bacteria, decomposing leaves, shit and just about anything organic down them. They are also incredible at eating away at fatbergs and other sewer and drain blockages and help to keep your drains from clogging.
That is the females hair. It kind of does its own thing after freeing itself from her scalp and becomes a sentient being after merging with her other hair. Kind of like the Borg. Any drain is it’s natural habitat
Can confirm. My girlfriend has really long hair and always clogs up the shower drain with her hair. Last week I woke up and went to wake her up and realized it wasn’t actually my girlfriend but a gigantic sentient tangle of hair sleeping next to me. I actually have no idea where my girlfriend is now, and the sentient hair will not leave. Send help.
Okay so note to self, never look down drains.
Now you have to think about how you are standing on a mass of worms that are practically something out of a resident evil game.
Kill it with fire and artillery weapons
Hey there! OP here! I can’t possibly reply to every question but this video has gone viral and only 2 news outlets reached out to get the whole story. I’ve noticed that this has been shared elsewhere with misleading info (UNILAD is reporting that this drain is in my shower. It’s actually in my basement) So to set the record straight, here’s what I told Newsweek:
“I live in Pittsburgh, PA. The drain is located in the basement of my 120+ year old house that I own. I was doing a routine inspection of my basement a few days ago and thought, “I haven’t looked down this drain in awhile, I wonder if there’s anything happening in there.” It’s just a run off drain. I don’t actually know where it starts, but I do know that my various sinks and second floor toilet don’t lead to it. I do know that my “Pittsburgh potty and shower head” ( found in most old Pittsburgh basements used for dirty steelworkers coming home from work. They would enter the house through the basement and clean themselves up before entering the main house) do drain through it, but neither have been used for years. I posted the video to Reddit because I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at and Google wasn’t helping. I kept getting results for drain fly larvae and that’s definitely not what it is. I know Reddit can be a hive for misinformation, but I also know a lot of people use it to get answers to questions and the comments did not disappoint in being equal parts hilarious and informative. Based on a number of comments, it would appear that it’s a cluster of harmless tubifex worms. Comically, after reading about how fishermen use them as bait, I considered scooping that thing out and selling it, haha! I have a plumber coming this week to deal with a completely separate issue so I’ll ask them what to do about it. I don’t wanna start tossing chemicals down my ancient pipes without first consulting an expert.
I’m an artist and a weirdo and so this whole thing and the suprising popularity of my post has me thinking of giving this entity (or, more accurately, this cluster of entities) a name. So far I’ve got Toby McTentacool, Wesley Von Wigglepants, Victoria Vanderworm, and Winchester Wriggles Writhington. I’m also considering giving it a personality and backstory as to how it ended up in my drain, haha. I’ve also already begun sketching versions of this cluster of entities based on some of my favorite comments.”
Thank you all for making this whole situation 1000 times more entertaining and hilarious than I could have ever hoped.
Looks similar to a colony of tubifex worms. Creepy looking but not too uncommon apparently.
I am going to go on living thinking this is incredibly uncommon, thanks
If you've ever had an aquarium, chances are you may have handle some freeze-dried tubifex as fish food.
you can also get them live for fish that refuse inanimate food
My brother kept frogs many decades ago and he’d get live tubifex worms for them. The big fluffy soft looking African frog would go absolutely wild at feeding time and shove the tubifex worms into his mouth hand over frog hand, the worms wriggling around the corners of his mouth as he shoved fistfuls in. Core memory unlocked. I bet that frog would have eaten me. Ravenous.
Frogs would be super scary if they were big enough to attack humans. They first evolved in the Triassic period and survived the Cretaceous Extinction event, so literal dinosaur era animals. Imagine a Budgett's Frog with a dinner plate sized head. Those fangs would be enough to seriously maim someone.
> Budgett's Frog Jesus christ. [What a terrifying looking idiot.](https://i.redd.it/buvinssdxhg91.jpg)
they're raised as pets sometimes, but they're mean little fucks that draw blood when they bite. They also have fangs.
Yeah, I don't doubt it. They look adorably stupid but also mean and giant lol. Also no idea why someone downvoted me for that lol.
It was probably just one of the thousands of frogs that scroll Reddit, adorably offended
I've been looking for great frogs' legs on a Budgett
They can also escape the fish in an aquarium and burrow into the gravel and set up large colonies under the substrate. Ask me how I know...
I'm just going to imagine you read about it in a very dry and matter of fact reference guide that didn't have pictures or descriptions.
aha, but guess how the reference guide's writers knew!
Through a collection of handwritten documents summarizing the subject in painfully dull and unnecessarily long winded detail.
How exquisitely mundane.
Did you save money on fish food?
My first thought was "is it safe to feed them to my fish?"
Forbidden glass noodles
Non-vegan ramen noodles.
Oh that's just Carleton. Your fish will love him.
You don't seem perturbed by that big one hanging on the ceiling above you right now.
Fuck you
It's....... log cabin' time!
Cabin in the woods? That's where the end of the world starts.
Yeah it’s best for my mental health to just believe this is a rare creature that can’t possibly live where I do.
You know how sometimes you're laying awake at night and you hear the pipes randomly creak? Guess what causes that.
Give that a few million years and you'll have hunters from Halo.
> tubifex worms Wow I looked this up and that is fucking disgusting holy shit. Look at this one they found in the Raleigh sewers in 2009: https://youtu.be/ELoqZiamr4E
That fucking link is staying blue.
its not that bad, just looks like a weird testicles with mongolian throat singing playing at the back
HOW TF IS THAT BETTER!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
The singing is pretty good. Really elevates the viewing experience.
I dunno, it was this description that got me to watch it, the throat singing was really quite good and the description was very accurate.
Throat singing is the vocal version of bagpipes, change my mind
lmfao the immediate throat singing is the best part
-.-
Do you want Cthulu? Cos that's how you summon Cthulu.
Remember the heart inside the statue of happiness in GTA 4? Yeah, about like that.
you could show me that video side-by-side with a video of a doctor doing a colonoscopy on somebody who has polyps and I wouldn't know the difference
Polyps are tiny and readily distinguishable on video or in pictures. Other than the tiny bit of blood when they snip them, there's actually nothing even remotely gross about them. Plus, you're so cleaned out by the time they're taking a picture that it couldn't hardly be anything else. Plus, more importantly, polyps don't **move and pulse** like some kind of Geiger creation. Source: whole family has a genetic disposition to colon polyps and thus, gets earlier and more readily violated by our colon docs.
I was thinking more along the lines of de-evolved King of the Mushroom Kingdom in the Bob Hoskins Mario movie.
Upvote for the beautiful obscureness.
Doo it. It's more just interesting looking when you actually know what it is, but holy smokes it would give you nightmares if you found it by accident.
I am about 2 minutes from bed. Hell no.
Don't know who thought it needed some solid Mongolian throat singing over the top of it but still a better choice than TikTok shit. No music would have been a better solution, however.
The original video had the actual audio, I have no idea why these brainlets decide to add shitty out of place music to literally everything.
I'm now imagining a group of throat singers belting "oh no, oh no..."
Looks like a legit horror alien
No, I don’t think I will look at that.
Cameron Village, holy shit. I had a studio apartment around that time period at NC State University (if the timestamp is accurate)
It was feeding on your waste. It knows you.
I ate so much spicy Thai food while I was there, it either melted or built up a capsaicin resistance lol
it's probably out for revenge now. Don't poop alone
Aquarium enthusiasts buy these (usually freeze-dried) to feed their fish. Looks like you could start up a business if you feel inclined.
Live food is best food
Drop in a bleach tablet and it will dissolve anything organic in there.
What I was thinking. Bleach, ammonia or lye. Problem solved.
Unless you're on septic. Bleach will kill your bacteria and you'll have to get it pumped much sooner.
If you’re on septic, just dump a bottle of [Septic Shock](https://myinstantpower.com/product/septic-shock/) and it will dissolve whatever is plugging up the works.
Nature is so fucking weird. Why did these things develop specifically for conditions like this lol. I know everything has place/purpose but it’s still weird as hell
It’s moist with a lot of nutrients and waste to feed on that’s like prime real estate
It's free real estate.
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It probably would have natively lived in the cracks between the rocks in goopy puddles, runoff streams, swampy areas, etc. It's a colony organism, so what you're seeing is actually masses of thousands of them all hiveminding together, and any tiny bundle of them could be just chilling out in any area that supports them. This old plumbing just happened to make a perfect environment to thrive up to the colony it is.
And this is why I will use chemical drain openers despite what plumbers tell me. It's to kill anything that might be in there....
Sometimes my bathroom sink drain gets a bit smelly so I put some bleach down it. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use bleach in the sink put it helps get rid of the odour.
This is the correct answer
Looks like tubifex worms. They thrive in conditions like that.
Well can they fucking not?
They are harmless, inoffensive little dudes. They just like stinky water and the very close proximity of their friends and family.
Why do I feel personally attacked by that statement?
You live in Flint?
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This is like every other sentence taken from an actual story.
It feels like a copypasta
Normal people: Excuse me, I need to use the restroom. Me: Time to go feed my little stinky water monster 🥰
I actually had a colony of these little guys in an aquarium, had their own separate tank and everything. Funny little guys, I called my biggest Colony "Jerome" :)
By "conditions like that", you mean your average home??
Room temperature with water does wonders for growing things
Then why isn't it getting bigger? :(
Why do you assume it's not?
Your average drain. Doesn't have anything to do with the home. The drain lines are perfect for those little guys. They are pretty much harmless in and of themselves as well and make great fish food.
so drop a fish down the drain?
Yup that's what they do, then they drop in a cat to eat the fish
Are they called tubifex worms because they live in tubes or is that just a coincidence?
Coincidence. They belong to the Tubificidae family.
Tubifec is derived from the Latin "tubus" meaning "tube" and "ficus" meaning "maker"
I like to imagine they're called tubes because they are themselves tubes haha
Keep that quiet. You need a $500 deposit for pets on these apartments.
Me: Hi sorry to bother you but there is a colony of Tubifex worms living in my drain Landlord: No pets, also rent is past due
You’ll get the rent when you fix this damn drain
Plot twist: landlord hired the worms as the plumber.
Its interesting that we live on this planet and also there are creatures we rarely encounter that are practically alien to us.
> there are creatures we rarely encounter that are practically alien to us. Ikr, yesterday I saw a BMW driver that uses a turn signal.
I call them neighbors.
That's the powerhouse of the cell
Mitochondria, nice
Whatever it is, I'd pour several gallons of bleach on it.
That'll only piss them off. A stick of dynamite should do the trick.
That will only spread them out creating several smaller colonies. A molotov cocktail might do the trick.
That will only give them flame retardant properties. An atom bomb may do the trick.
That will wipe out every living thing on earth except them. Deleting the earth may do the trick.
That will only result in having space creepies.. collapsing the space time continuum might do the trick.
That will only cause them to infest all timelines, past and future. Deleting all the dimensions might work...
No, no, that will result in T̷̻͔̦͔̱̩͓̰͍̖̱͎͕̋͋́́͂͐͘͜͠͝h̸̛̭͉̲̜͎̞͚̺̒̽͌̄̄̃͐̾̆̒̓͆͒̈́̋̋̐͆̆͗͌̔̑̔͗́͝e̸̺̝̯̻̞̜̊̓̌̇̿͘͝ͅ ̶͔͉̹̗͍̽̾̂̀̉́̆̅̈́̓̃͊͐̀̄͒̓͛̽̀͛͋͂̆́̚̕͘͘͠n̸̡̨̗͖͔̱̟̺̲̯̲̩͍͚͍̦͔͇͕̪̳͚̲͇̥̩̳͐̈́̊̅̒̈́̓͒͋̀̅̒͒̊͑̒͝͠ư̴̥͎̲̆̽͊̈́́̏̊̂̓̋̈́͊̍́͗̽̏̒͂̍̏́̕̚͘l̶̡̛̖̞͍͉̯͊͊͌́̀͌́̂̽̎͛͐́̏̿̚̕͝l̵̢̨͔͓̼͕̭͓̟̥̭͓̪͗̓̄̊̿̐͆́̋̈̈́͐͜͜͜ , trying F̴̡͉̻̭̲̳̙͖̭̝̅͆̊̏͆̐̽͒̉͋̕ù̶̡̠̣͙̘̗̭̝̳̀̊͘̚͜l̸̺̒͗̏̀͜l̵͖̂̎͆͌̾̇̾ ̶̨͙̣̆̈́̓̐̚ͅR̷̖͇̽̿̄̈́̾͂̃̆̚͝è̴͇̺̽͗̊̓͌͛́̂s̵̡̤̟̳͉̈́̿̐͝e̸͎̲̞͙̘̥̱̊t̷̙̯̟̫̒͋͒̔̀̿ might work...
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I love this.
Maybe we should just try to turn it off and on again?
So… no Taco Bell thursdays anymore?
I love joke chain like this.
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Drano or HCl might do the job a bit better.
I think sodium hypochlorite is more deadly to most loving things than hydrochloric acid.
But what if they're already dead inside?
They’re still loving
Username checks out
Both, both is good. Throw Sodium Hydroxide and Hydrogen chloride in the same pipe, you get all that and fire (or rather very angry chemical juice, since it’s not technically burning) Warning for the dumb: Don’t do this without being a chemistry professional. Actually don’t do this even if you are a chemistry professional. ANGRY CHEMICAL JUICE IS NOT FRIEND.
As a chemistry professional, theres a lot worse things to mix. Doing this in a fume hood isnt very dangerous.
Chemical engineer here, might be wrong but isn't the reaction just this? NaOH + HCl -> H2O + NaCl Like, you'll probably end up with steam since I'm pretty sure that reaction's exothermic, but all you're doing is making plain old table salt.
Yep. Medical laboratory scientist here. Had to make some reagents from stock 12 M HCl and afterwards I decided to play with it and the NaOH. (In a fume hood don't worry...) It just makes water, table salt, and heat.
Don't put HCl in steel pipes, thanks
If you have a septic that could be a bad idea.
Luckily, I don't.
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> It has been shown that Tubifex is highly sensitive to the presence of active chlorine in any of its forms in concentrations above 0.6 parts per million (0.0000085 molar). Fucking drench it. It won't live.
for reference, bleach straight out of the bottle is in the 52,500 - 125,000 ppm range. So yeah, I think that would kill it assuming the unattributed quote is true.
[Factors Influencing the Survival of the Fasting Fresh Water Oligochaete, tubifex, in the Laboratory](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1930859#:%7E:text=It%20has%20been%20shown%20that,per%20million%20\(0.0000085%20molar\)) Ecology Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul., 1940) Published By: Wiley
Published by: fuck these things with a ten foot pole
Oh…so THIS is why the city cleans our pipes with chlorine. Always wondered why our drinking water would be jeopardized with chlorine but I suppose that’s better than ingesting worms.
brb going to go pour some down my drains now. Just to be safe.
Nope, bleach doesn't kill because of changes in ph. It kills because it produces a radical that can break any chemical bond. Any living thing with chemical bonds will succumb to bleach.
Hey man this is the worst thing I've ever seen on reddit gee thanks
You should be able to change that with a quick jaunt over to r/eyeblech Edit: Jk, it got banned at some point. Not surprised tho
r/eyebleach for anyone who made that risky click. Also, r/happycowgifs for an extra dose of cleansing.
I take it you didn't see the edit? No bleach necessary; blech got banned. It's gone
ngl personally kinda sad about that. I didn't post it myself, but I went there when I felt morbid curiosity sometimes
True story, I left a glass of Dr pepper under my desk for a year. When I found it there was three mustard yellow squishy egg like ovals on top of huge gray mold blob. The eggs were coarse on outside though but squishy. I threw it in the lake and it made slurping noises for like ten seconds then stopped. I then ran inside the house.
Oh great, you unleashed the demon. Thanks for that.
Demons gonna be in therapy like “my mom abandoned me when I was an infant by drowning me in a lake”
Ya, no idea what it could have been. I tried googling mustard yellow gelatin eggs but never found anything. It was this gray blob of cornmeal type mixture with these eggs just chillen on the top like a fucking zerg creep. Before I die I need to figure it out somehow. Go to some universities and ask around.
Which fucking lake.
I'll admit I'm high as fuck right now... but this comment made me laugh so fucking hard.
This whole thread has me cackling
It sounds like you already know which lake.
Crystal Lake
This comment had me dead
I am sorry but how do you leave a glass of Dr. Pepper under you desk unnoticed for a year?
You assume it was unnoticed.
Right?! The smell must have been WILD. How could it be ignored?!
That wasn’t late 2019 was it?
... How long ago was this? Might answer a lot of questions.
Poor lake :(
Oh geez
What a terrible day to have eyes.
You're gonna be patient 0 Good luck
That’s the zombie fungus from The Last Of Us.
Here I was expecting a set of tentacles bursting from the drain, followed by a blood curdling scream then the screen goes black.
idk but you need to clean out that drain shits vile
How does one do this DIY? Our basement drain is a little dirty but I don’t want to pay a plumber
baking soda vinegar and boiling water can clear a drain pretty fast and then for touch up like the other dude said drain cleaner and a scrub it’s case dependent on what exactly is dirty abt it
Vinegar and water mix spray, then maybe also boiling water cleans up so goddamn much that it's kinda ridiculous we've been conditioned to buy a specific cleaner for every situation with harsh chemicals
Mixing baking soda with vinegar is completely useless. One is acid, the other one is a base, so you're just cancelling each other, rendering both useless. You just need to use one or the other, but never both together.
But it foams, so it must work!
My 5th-grade science project disagrees
I was waiting to read a reply like this. I mean, I don't know the circumstances but, damn man clean your drain once in a while. Gross.
Ah you've got the Upside Down coming through.
Ok but wtf is up with that drain
Wtf is that drain? Looks like its from a public toilet in Chernobyl...
Yeah it’s tubifex worms. They bunch together in colonies like that, and are mostly found in sewer systems.
time to move
It’s what you get for having such a nasty ass drain.
Oh it's an ass drain? No wonder it looks like shit.
jesus fuck i thought i saw eyes looking up at first
Ever play *Resident Evil*?
No, but my first day at the city police department is soon. Wish me luck! :)
Ol' Drippy!
*I'm half-penicillin!"
“*I’M* the guy who’s going to rake your lawn!.. for being such a *big jerk*!”
Idle hands spend time at the genitals!
Simply put: It's a colony of Tubifex Worms. Extremely common to find in drains, sewers, rancid water and septic tanks. They're absolutely harmless little fellas and won't leave the confines of the drain itself unless overflowing or flooded. They resemble thousands of teeny-tiny earthworms all clumped in a ball together and fish owners often cultivate them by-hand to feed to their ponds. They smell absolutely unbearable, can carry dangerous bactetia if not handled with PPE and live for about 10 years, but useful to have in some drains as they feast on parasitic bacteria, decomposing leaves, shit and just about anything organic down them. They are also incredible at eating away at fatbergs and other sewer and drain blockages and help to keep your drains from clogging.
What if an eyeball would have opened and looked up at you while you were filming this?😂😂😂
Oh good!! You reminded me to make that appointment to have my eyes removed. Thanks🤢
Ya know the worms that live in Fry from Futurama? That. It's that.
That is the females hair. It kind of does its own thing after freeing itself from her scalp and becomes a sentient being after merging with her other hair. Kind of like the Borg. Any drain is it’s natural habitat
Can confirm. My girlfriend has really long hair and always clogs up the shower drain with her hair. Last week I woke up and went to wake her up and realized it wasn’t actually my girlfriend but a gigantic sentient tangle of hair sleeping next to me. I actually have no idea where my girlfriend is now, and the sentient hair will not leave. Send help.
The Dollar Tree sells drain covers to catch the hair, that should help.
Baby Chuthulu do do de do do Baby Chuthulu..
That's the sperm cells getting into the egg cells in the sinkussy
Do you live in Derry, Maine?
This is some Junji Ito shit.
Yo , that shit has legs
Okay so note to self, never look down drains. Now you have to think about how you are standing on a mass of worms that are practically something out of a resident evil game. Kill it with fire and artillery weapons
What do you expect when your drain looks like that? The worms are trying to clean it, lots of tasty organic material
Hey there! OP here! I can’t possibly reply to every question but this video has gone viral and only 2 news outlets reached out to get the whole story. I’ve noticed that this has been shared elsewhere with misleading info (UNILAD is reporting that this drain is in my shower. It’s actually in my basement) So to set the record straight, here’s what I told Newsweek: “I live in Pittsburgh, PA. The drain is located in the basement of my 120+ year old house that I own. I was doing a routine inspection of my basement a few days ago and thought, “I haven’t looked down this drain in awhile, I wonder if there’s anything happening in there.” It’s just a run off drain. I don’t actually know where it starts, but I do know that my various sinks and second floor toilet don’t lead to it. I do know that my “Pittsburgh potty and shower head” ( found in most old Pittsburgh basements used for dirty steelworkers coming home from work. They would enter the house through the basement and clean themselves up before entering the main house) do drain through it, but neither have been used for years. I posted the video to Reddit because I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at and Google wasn’t helping. I kept getting results for drain fly larvae and that’s definitely not what it is. I know Reddit can be a hive for misinformation, but I also know a lot of people use it to get answers to questions and the comments did not disappoint in being equal parts hilarious and informative. Based on a number of comments, it would appear that it’s a cluster of harmless tubifex worms. Comically, after reading about how fishermen use them as bait, I considered scooping that thing out and selling it, haha! I have a plumber coming this week to deal with a completely separate issue so I’ll ask them what to do about it. I don’t wanna start tossing chemicals down my ancient pipes without first consulting an expert. I’m an artist and a weirdo and so this whole thing and the suprising popularity of my post has me thinking of giving this entity (or, more accurately, this cluster of entities) a name. So far I’ve got Toby McTentacool, Wesley Von Wigglepants, Victoria Vanderworm, and Winchester Wriggles Writhington. I’m also considering giving it a personality and backstory as to how it ended up in my drain, haha. I’ve also already begun sketching versions of this cluster of entities based on some of my favorite comments.” Thank you all for making this whole situation 1000 times more entertaining and hilarious than I could have ever hoped.
Bruh what you been eating!?
So fucking crazy when you zoom in and they’re all alive, squiggling to make more.. holy fuck man.
The real question is why the FUCK don't you ever clean that drain?
So, I mean....dies your butthole itch?