How Do I Get rid of white worms?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
F

FishGoneWild

Feeder Fish
MFK Member
Aug 22, 2007
2,178
5
0
32 Polypterus Way, Africa
I have a 125gal tank and have these wiggly white worms. I was told they do not harm my fish but I want they gone. I feel disgusted seeing them each time I do water change. I have been doing 50% water change twice a week and I'm pissed they're still around after 3 weeks.:irked: I have tried Jungle Lab Parasite Clear with aquarium salt but no luck. I want them gone. Can someone offer advice on what medicine to use and where to buy the medicine?

[yt]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g2qA_eljza4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g2qA_eljza4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/yt]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2qA_eljza4
 
Flubenol will destroy planaria but you need to do more water changes and cut your feeding rations.
 
Make sure you do thorough gravel vacs, as well as what lupe said.
 
Lupin;3046699; said:
Flubenol will destroy planaria but you need to do more water changes and cut your feeding rations.
Click to expand...
Thank you all for the fast replies. I've googled and done some research online but could find I have reduce feeding by 50% in portion. I still feeding daily but reduce the portion by 50%. I do gravel vac every waterchange and tank has about 1.5" of gravels. However, I feel the gravel vac is not sufficient. On the last two waterchanges I used the water pressure from the pump to spray the gravel and get all the debris up. Then I turned on my two HOB filter to let them suck up the gunk. Is what I am doing enough to battle planaria? Where can I find Flubenol? Is this stuff safe for fish?
 
hi there..sorry to jack this thread but is planaria worms the same one's that crawl along the glass wall's? thanks...
 
pixies2;3050372; said:
hi there..sorry to jack this thread but is planaria worms the same one's that crawl along the glass wall's? thanks...
Click to expand...
Yes, they are.
 
FishGoneWild;3046726; said:
Thank you all for the fast replies. I've googled and done some research online but could find I have reduce feeding by 50% in portion. I still feeding daily but reduce the portion by 50%. I do gravel vac every waterchange and tank has about 1.5" of gravels. However, I feel the gravel vac is not sufficient. On the last two waterchanges I used the water pressure from the pump to spray the gravel and get all the debris up. Then I turned on my two HOB filter to let them suck up the gunk. Is what I am doing enough to battle planaria? Where can I find Flubenol? Is this stuff safe for fish?
Click to expand...

its not a battle if things are running properly in your tank. planaria die off once you reduce the food availible to them. they die off quite quickly too. there is no need to add any chemicals to your tank to get rid of planaria. they will just come back again and again unless you get your feeding amounts and maintenance correct. planaria are a part of a healthy system and can be found in every system if you look hard enough. when you feed to much and/or vac too little there is a population explosion so you get them floating around and on the glass.
they are like an alarm system to give you a warning that your doing something wrong before something major happens. your doing everything right to reduce the planaria numbers just keep with it.

are you cleaning the HOBS after using them to suck the crap up?
 
cichlid2006;3050461; said:
its not a battle if things are running properly in your tank. planaria die off once you reduce the food availible to them. they die off quite quickly too. there is no need to add any chemicals to your tank to get rid of planaria. they will just come back again and again unless you get your feeding amounts and maintenance correct. planaria are a part of a healthy system and can be found in every system if you look hard enough. when you feed to much and/or vac too little there is a population explosion so you get them floating around and on the glass.
they are like an alarm system to give you a warning that your doing something wrong before something major happens. your doing everything right to reduce the planaria numbers just keep with it.

are you cleaning the HOBS after using them to suck the crap up?
Click to expand...
I use Emperor 400 with the extra media tray and no carbon. I just toss out the filter floss every month but last week I cleaned out two canisters and two HOB filter. I toss out all the filter floss that were dirty and clean the bio media thoroughly, too. I'm running over 10x turnover filtration.

Would you think 3 weeks is a long enough time for the planaria to die off? I don't like resort to medicine but I'm disgusted at the site of them all over the tank. Ever since I started stirring up all the debris in the gravel and let my HOB suck it up I'm noticing an improvement.
 
FishGoneWild;3052517; said:
Would you think 3 weeks is a long enough time for the planaria to die off? I don't like resort to medicine but I'm disgusted at the site of them all over the tank. Ever since I started stirring up all the debris in the gravel and let my HOB suck it up I'm noticing an improvement.
Click to expand...

3 weeks will be more than enough if you manage to get things on the correct plan for your stocking. you should notice an improvement after a couple of days.
anything you use to kill them will only cure the symptom and not the root cause. it will only appear to work until your system crashes because your using too much food per feed and/or not enough maintenance.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom