I have just fished a tiny shrimp out of my bath

[WhereAreAllTheTeaspoons]

Pretty much as the title says... where the fuck has it come from

I rinsed the bath out with the shower as I usually do before I started running it so it deffinatley wasnt there. Has it actually come out of the tap?

Its about half a cm long, has a bit of a tail and two little ear prongs, very much alive and swimming. Sort of looks like a sea money but I dont think that's what it is.

I was quite looking forward to a bath, it's been a long day, but I wasnt keen on having company so I've had a shower instead.
tries to block out the thoughts of the little fuckers potentially coming out of the shower head

This might be a silly question, but where would I find the water tank if we have one ?

I think we're on mains water (is that what it's called, yorkshire water if it makes any difference), and our landlady pays the water rates for all four houses that are on our row.

DP has declared it is a millipede, doesn't look like any milipede I've ever seen. I suggested a PP's suggestion of naming it, SD has been begging for a pet for months, but hes not keen.

I found something similar in the toilet at work and wondered if it had come through in the water or dropped into the bowl from the ceiling.

Mosquito larvae... pest control
It's in the bin

I don’t have a water tank either. I had one in the house I grew up in and it was in the loft.

My water tank is in the loft. One time, a cockroach came out in pieces. We did a legionnaires test whereby we flushed the tank, made sure it had a cover etc.

Is it a baby centipede?

If you've got a gravity fed heating system, you'll have a water tank in the roof and a cylinder in your airing cupboard. Our water was really smelly and horrible, and the DC got upset stomachs.......... turned out the cover had come off the water tank and a pigeon was slowly rotting in it.

We had a combi boiler put in pronto.

Ask your LL and get it checked.

I'd agree with the mosquito larvae identification. I've seen them in water butts.

Whatever it is, kill it!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Make an example of it to stop others forcing their way up your plughole.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Whatever it is, kill it!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Make an example of it to stop others forcing their way up your plughole.

“Make an example of it” 🤣🤣🤣

Call the rspca.

Whatever it is, kill it!
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

I never understand this kind of attitude. It's definitely easier to just leave home and never return. Write a note for your children and loved ones by all means but just walk out and leave Leggy the sea monster to think about what he's done and the lives he's ruined.

Ewww that's gross.

Imagine finding one in your cuppa

My first thought was mosquito larvae.
They lay their eggs in any stagnant water so ponds, bird baths, even plant pot saucers.
We once went to view an empty flat to rent (Italy) with a dripping bath tap. The 2cm deep puddle was WRIGGLING with them.
We hot-footed it out of there!

I moved out of my last home because there was too many spiders. I have no qualms about moving to escape bath shrimps. I'll probably take my loved ones with me though, the situation isnt so urgent yet that I have to leave with only the clothes on my back. that may change if I turn the tap on and there is an army of them

Do you think it might be due to a recent spate of seamonkeys being released into the sewage system?

Do not drink the water. And move

@notangelinajolie

Do not drink the water. And move

Drinking water comes from the rising main, so won't be contaminated - it's the cold water feed from the tank that goes to the hot taps via immersion/boiler that's been affected.

Means the landlord needs to get somebody up into the loft to check the tank cover, as otherwise, you could have all manner of nasties up there.

1. Any chance it came in through a window?

1. LTB.

We used to get those in our old house - there was a cold water tank in the loft. We also once had a wasp infestation up there and bits of mangled wasp came out through the taps!

I stayed in a holiday let in Scotland in my teens and the water was full of little shrimp things.

Was it swimming in the water. Presumably if it’s comfortable (doing something) not dead, then it is of the water, rather than a bug that just fell in the bath.

@userxx

I'm sure someone on here the other day was going to flush her sea monkeys down the loo......

I thought of this too!! 🤣🤣

Looks like some kind of nymph.

Put your thumb on the spout of the tap. Turn the water on. Can you hold back the flow of water with your thumb?

Test the hot and cold separately.