Weird stuff in tank.

[MV2006]

Well ever since I got this green sunfish its been doing pretty good I even got it to eat pellets .I havent tryed live foods yet but im sure it will swallow up some feeder fish .The only thing is ive never kept native fish before .So I think I may have some pests that came along with the fish .There is these white worm things that are about 1/4" long about as thick as a human hair and wiggle around like crazy thru the fish tank.Also the weirdest thing that I cant explain or have ever seen.The water will be clean crystal clear in regular room lights .But if you turn on the aquarium light within 20-30 seconds the water gets hazy with a almost yellow-green tint kind of hard to explain .It almost looks like of you had filled the tank with a really light yellow green smoke ,Weird I know.This however takes the water an hour or two to clear up again .So any one have any idea as to what the "worm" things are ? Whats up with the water turning hazy when i turn on the aquarium light?:confused:

[Honda12]

The white worms sound like bristle worms. No idea what why the water is changeing color.

[MV2006]

how do you get rid of the worms.

[Honda12]

They type I had were harmless, just unpleasent to look at. But lots heat and lost salt got rid of them cause the tank was empty. Sorry but I don't remeber the name of he med that was suggested to me to get rid of them.

[guppy]

Try parasite clear tank buddies by Jungle, That should take care of the worms, from the swimming motion they could be nematodes. I don't know about the water color but I bet a UV filter would cure it.

[meepster]

The white worms sound like bristle worms. No idea what why the water is changeing color.

aren't bristleworms suppsoed to be saltwater and comes with live rock?

[MV2006]

aren't bristleworms suppsoed to be saltwater and comes with live rock?


I agree these are not bristle worms , ill go with nematodes or planaria ,I was thinking of putting small feeder fish in there to take care of the job.

[Bassman89]

theyre not bristle worms..i dont know what they are...as for the color change in the water...i havent the slightest idea

[ronnie]

just do not overfeed them.

make regular water changes

[Dr Joe]

photo (light) reactive algae ? If you do a 50% wc does it show up just as fast?
Didn't get your water from a near-by nuclear reactor cooling tower did ya? :ROFL:

[MV2006]

I may have exaggerated about the yellow-green tint to the "haze" the color is there just very faint , What ever it is if I leave the aquarium lights on it sort of dissipates after an hour or 2 but the water goes back to crystal clear with the lights of after a couple of hours strangest part is that when you turn the auarium lights on the water remains clear for a little under a minute and then the "haze" begins almost as if filling the tank with smoke this is strange I may have to get video before people start to think im crazy as far as photo reactive algae it sounds like something worth checking out but ive never heard about that in an aquarium im confused with this strange water activity

[meepster]

I may have exaggerated about the yellow-green tint to the "haze" the color is there just very faint , What ever it is if I leave the aquarium lights on it sort of dissipates after an hour or 2 but the water goes back to crystal clear with the lights of after a couple of hours strangest part is that when you turn the auarium lights on the water remains clear for a little under a minute and then the "haze" begins almost as if filling the tank with smoke this is strange I may have to get video before people start to think im crazy as far as photo reactive algae it sounds like something worth checking out but ive never heard about that in an aquarium im confused with this strange water activity

maybe its some microorganisms or rotifers that are active when theres light.

[MV2006]

maybe its some microorganisms or rotifers that are active when theres light.
Do think it could have came from the lake water , a little did get in the tank when I dumped the fish out of the bag I would say theres about 4 oz of lake water in there too.

[fishyz]

I had these worm thing in a ten gallon tropical tank once and there was no trouble caused by them. Also every time I would see one of the worms one of my fish would too and it would get eaten.

[Dr Joe]

I may have exaggerated about the yellow-green tint to the "haze" the color is there just very faint , What ever it is if I leave the aquarium lights on it sort of dissipates after an hour or 2 but the water goes back to crystal clear with the lights of after a couple of hours strangest part is that when you turn the auarium lights on the water remains clear for a little under a minute and then the "haze" begins almost as if filling the tank with smoke this is strange I may have to get video before people start to think im crazy as far as photo reactive algae it sounds like something worth checking out but ive never heard about that in an aquarium im confused with this strange water activity
I find this very interesting.

After you take some video to save (or protect) your sanity, you could try covering the tank for 2-3 days (a blackout) and see if that kills it.

Get a diatom filter (sometimes cheap on ebay) that should filter it out.

If you have another tank you could cycle it, then take some water out of it, put it in a bucket, dip the fish in it before placing them in the new tank and see if it comes back.

Leave it as is (since you say the fish are happy :D ) and see how far it goes. It may be just the start of free floating green algae.

Or a new life form, sent from another galaxy to study us, (they just don't have large enough tanks on their planet to put us in) :screwy:

[guppy]

Do you hear the music from the "Twilight Zone"?

[fishyz]

Do you hear the music from the "Twilight Zone"? :ROFL: :ROFL: It's another ewurm imatator but the origanal is best (I'm sure I spelled that wrong):ROFL: :ROFL:

[MV2006]

Do you hear the music from the "Twilight Zone"?
Yup , But that gets drowned out by the theme from psycho and jaws remixed together .:ROFL:

[MV2006]

I find this very interesting.

After you take some video to save (or protect) your sanity, you could try covering the tank for 2-3 days (a blackout) and see if that kills it.

Get a diatom filter (sometimes cheap on ebay) that should filter it out.

If you have another tank you could cycle it, then take some water out of it, put it in a bucket, dip the fish in it before placing them in the new tank and see if it comes back.

Leave it as is (since you say the fish are happy :D ) and see how far it goes. It may be just the start of free floating green algae.

Or a new life form, sent from another galaxy to study us, (they just don't have large enough tanks on their planet to put us in) :screwy:

A new life form ? hmmmmm Did you ever see the movie evolution? I will come home one day i bet you there will be some kind of weird mammal eating ny fish. I will try and put some video up , But be prepared as it might be a 3 mnute long video because the change in the water take about 1 minute 2-3 minute to get intense enough for low visibilty in the water .:screwy:

[fishyz]

Yup , But that gets drowned out by the theme from psycho and jaws remixed together .:ROFL:
:ROFL: I like funny:ROFL:

[nativelover]

do a 50% water change every other day for a wek, so 3 changes, and vacuum the gravel each time. the worms are just bacteria that usually live in the gravel and take care of excess waste, but they come out if there is too much waste 'cause it chokes them and cuts off all the oxygen supply to the gravel.
just do a few water changes and dont over feed. also clean the glass with a sponge to get rid of the cocoons from the worms.
the water changing color sounds like it could be algae but mine (native tank) is always this color and its because of the color gravel and the light i have on it, when the light is off, it crystal clear.

[Dr Joe]

I may have exaggerated about the yellow-green tint to the "haze" the color is there just very faint , What ever it is if I leave the aquarium lights on it sort of dissipates after an hour or 2 but the water goes back to crystal clear with the lights of after a couple of hours strangest part is that when you turn the auarium lights on the water remains clear for a little under a minute and then the "haze" begins almost as if filling the tank with smoke this is strange I may have to get video before people start to think im crazy as far as photo reactive algae it sounds like something worth checking out but ive never heard about that in an aquarium im confused with this strange water activity

Any progress in your search for a cure to the extraterestrial lifeforms in your tank?

[MV2006]

Doing a water change as we speak ,but still same things going on

[MV2006]

Before i get started on doing the water change I set up the video camera to capture the "haze" but it didnt show up so all i got is some pretty cool video of a sunfish swimming around , I will check in about 10 minutes to see if this "haze " starts to develop again, its like a trigger effect when it does happen it pretty much take over the tank within a minute .But I think what ever it is is gone , Just to let you guys know i did leave the lights of for about 5 days so maybe that helped.

[Dr Joe]

For you and your fishes sake I hope it's gone. Keep us posted. :thumbsup:

[MV2006]

HMMM any body interested in a stupid video of a green sunfish swimming around?

[MV2006]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdGIBMtTgJM

Here it is the killer green sunfish.

[Dr Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdGIBMtTgJM

Here it is the killer green sunfish.

Shy huh?

[MV2006]

Thats because I had just turned on the lights after being off for five days . usually he/she swims around center/middle of the tank alot Unless I turn on the tv then he goes to the left side of the tank annd watches tv with us .weird I know.

[Dr Joe]

But Cool... :screwy:

[MV2006]

I dont know if anybody notices but on his top bottom and rear fins the is a white or light colored ouline I though it was fin rot at first but thats the color of them.

[payara]

try to put some water plants in the tank incase it is algea so it uses the nutrients the algea is