I got some hornwort from a local pond for our aquarium. It also had a bunch of tiny snails and a few of these things. Some kind of larvae? Not sure how to upload photos.
Edited by - DENNISNDODIE on 09/14/2023 18:36:20
Looks like a caddisfly larva to me.
Sea monkeys..?
I have no idea..
I dunno. .... aquarium gravel?? 
Apparently, caddis fly larvae are famous for covering themselves in tiny bits of gravel.
And here's a nudie pic:
Might just try AOL image search for
freshwater insect larvae
see what matches.
Are you asking about your religious figure in the background encased in a clear plastic tube?
[Verne I do believe has a firm grasp of underwater creatures. Emerging caddis fly larvae. I suggest you get a trout. [edit: I knew we had a bunch when I lived in Missouri, but Illinois has 184 species of Trichopterans......so just by sheer odds, and it does look them, and you got them in a local pond.....]
Edited by - dawgdoc on 09/17/2023 12:12:48
I believe it is one of the Polycentropodidae: Tube-making and Trumpet-net caddisfly larvae. lifeinfreshwater.net/caddisfly...choptera/
Perhaps it is Triaenodes bicolor, see link below.
google.com/search?client=firef...861&dpr=1
I’d go with caddies fly larvae too.
I agree with the larvae. My Oscars ate whatever they were along with all the snails.
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