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

There’s only one way to know for sure which is to adopt it as a pet and update the thread in 4 months when it’s big enough to identify conclusively

Have you seen The Faculty, OP? 😁

@Witchend

Silver fish are lovely. I think every house has them.

My current house has them in one room - a downstairs bathroom. I've never seen them before.

Run, OP, and don’t look back!!!

@Shizzlestix I may regret asking, but when you say a cockroach came out in pieces.....was that all at once? Or over the course of several baths?

@Fillybuster all at once, one bath, just as it was getting full. I was gutted, there was no way I was going to fish it out then there wasn’t any more hot left for another bath. 😢

It's a very small centipede- not mosquito larvae.

@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

at your last sentence.

Thank goodness you hadn't covered the surface of the bath water with bubbles OP, otherwise shrimpy could have ended up in a crevice.......

I don’t think mosquito lavae look like that? They are usually squiggly wormy things flicking back and forth - the don’t have legs like that?

It’s not a shrimp either though

Having read one of the earlier posts.. I now can't stop singing "He came in through the bathroom window.." And I was just hoping for a wedding invite post or an MIL outrage.

Here, it is a centipede, they live near water and can survive in it for a short while:

Sorry, OP - you have a dead body in your attic. This is always the first sign in horror films.

Definitely move house. Good luck.

It looks like a centipede to me. I found a rather large one in my bath the other morning.

Sorry, OP - you have a dead body in your attic. This is always the first sign in horror films.

I'm just saying, if your children mention that someone's been brushing their hair who they can't see you may want to consider moving.

It could be a bathroom centipede, some older houses have colonies of them living behind the bathroom tiles.

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I'm sure someone on here the other day was going to flush her sea monkeys down the loo......*
I thought of this too!!* 🤣🤣

They were, there was hell to pay! The poster was piled on by some people. She was a killer, vile, was going to mentally screw up her kids forever.

The way some people were on there, you'd think their sea monkeys had been flushed down the toilet when they were kids. Totally batshit. Was a brilliant thread!!

CrimeCantCrackItself

I concur with centipede, it probably came from the room not the tap. Feel from the ceiling or windowsill or something.

*fell not feel, it hopefully won’t feel you!

Hi how did u solve this does the water tank need replacing. I dont know what to do

HAVE you got a cold-water tank in the loft?

Is there dirt in the bottom? Drowned spiders? Pigeons?

Is it plastic?

Has it got a tight-fitting plastic lid that makes a good (but not airtight) seal?

Has it got an insulating jacket, tied on and fitting well, including the lid?

The lid is to stop wildlife falling in

The insulation is not to protect from cold, but prevent it getting warm in summer and encouraging biological growth.

All cheap and easy to fix. Photos will help.

We had a rotting wasps nest in the uncovered cold water tank - the smell was horrendous. LL's got that sorted pretty smartly.

This came out of our tap a few weeks ago - we're on a private water supply!