What kind of parasite it is ?

Wtf is this worm? Looks like a piece of thin spaghetti. Found in the poop of a radiata tortoise I bought couple months ago . The shape and texture of the poop looks normal and this tortoise eats like a pig .

Yes that a worm all right. Looks like round worm to me. I’d look In to getting the tortoise wormed.

No...those look exactly like the worms I dig up to feed the box turtles. They are in the red wiggler family, but they are NOT parasites...

I think tha't's a regular garden variety pot worm. Google it

My red wrigglers are, well, red. That looks either like a sickly red worm.....or something else. Do you normally find worms where you found 5his one? Or, was it in fecal matter.

enchilada said:

Wtf is this worm? Looks like a piece of thin spaghetti. Found in the poop of a radiata tortoise I bought couple months ago . The shape and texture of the poop looks normal and this tortoise eats like a pig .

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Those are typical roundworms (Ascarids). The tortoise should be wormed to reduce the numbers in its gut since you are seeing them in its feces.

Maro2Bear said:

My red wrigglers are, well, red. That looks either like a sickly red worm.....or something else. Do you normally find worms where you found 5his one? Or, was it in fecal matter.

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As the OP said in the second sentence of his post, it was found IN the fecal matter of his tortoise. If you look closely at the first photo, you can see a rather loose green stool with the worm(s) in it.

Maro2Bear said:

My red wrigglers are, well, red. That looks either like a sickly red worm.....or something else. Do you normally find worms where you found 5his one? Or, was it in fecal matter.

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found in poop . I doubt it’s a red wriggler consumed by the tortoise

zovick said:

As the OP said in the second sentence of his post, it was found IN the fecal matter of his tortoise. If you look closely at the first photo, you can see a rather loose green stool with the worm(s) in it.

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✅ Agh, yes, saw that after I reread & sent away. Not a Red Wriggler.

zovick said:

As the OP said in the second sentence of his post, it was found IN the fecal matter of his tortoise. If you look closely at the first photo, you can see a rather loose green stool with the worm(s) in it.

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Maro2Bear said:

My red wrigglers are, well, red. That looks either like a sickly red worm.....or something else. Do you normally find worms where you found 5his one? Or, was it in fecal matter.

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Well, that's true, then there is the same species but different, I have those gray worms in hmmm, in the hole where I put the Sulcata poop. But I've never seen worms like that in the poop that I pick up, but my hole is filled with red wigglers and those gray ones that I thought were smaller night crawlers...Damn, I'd hate to think I that far wrong, wow I'm sorry

Because I keep my fir bark substrate fairly wet, I have seen red wigglers in it when digging down. I've never imported dirt from outside, so have no idea how they got there. It's not so hard to assume that garden variety pot worms are in that substrate and hurried over to the fresh poop for a meal. Parasite 'worms' are stiffer than garden worms.

I'd recommend taking a stool sample to your reptile vet. Those pics too. The vet can ID the specific parasite, or not, by the ova shed in the feces. I wouldn't want to worm the tortoise unnecessarily, and I wouldn't want to not worm it with the correct dose of the correct wormer if it needs it.

Definitely an ascarid. As suggested take the photos, fecal sample and in addition, any worms you find in the feces, to your vet. Make sure your vet has experience with deworming tortoises--they are not alternative mammals.