Can anyone identify this CLEAR WORM??

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Jack Dempsey
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Hey Guys I have a completely see through clear looking worm in my hospital tank. I have been treating a sick paratalapia Cichlid with an unknown issue for weeks now doing seperate treatments of melafix, paragaurd, Kanaplex and salt.

Oddly enough the filter just stopped working yesterday but I noticed this weird looking think in the tank which I couldn’t really tell if it was moving or not.

Parameters are all good and temp is at 77F. See pics attached
Thanks in advance

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Hard to say. Maybe a midge larvae.
 
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Hard to say. Maybe a midge larvae.
Thanks for the suggestion comparing my picture to a “phantom midge” that I found on google, they look quite similar. No idea how it got there. Since my fish isn’t eating I guess, if it is a midge, it’s safe.
 
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