How Do I Get rid of white worms?

[vaine111]

try vacing after the feedings.just get all the uneaten food out. i feed my fish earthwroms and shrimp. the pieces are big enough to where after 30 minutes i can see the uneaten food and vac it out. takes 3 minutes and 2-3 gallons of water. takes a big load off the filters.

 

[FishGoneWild]

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.

I feel about 15 small shrimps a day along with a small portion of pellets. I used to feed like 20-22 shrimps a day with krills, pellets, worms all in one serving. It didn't help that the shrimps I got disolve in the water. I don't use that brand of shrimps anymore and I get the more fresh stuffs. I don't see the white worms swimming in the tank anymore but I do see them when I stirred up the gravel during a waterchange. Yes, I gravel vac religiously to get as debris out as possible. I hope those nasty worms die off and go away for good.

 

[cichlid2006]

I feel about 15 small shrimps a day along with a small portion of pellets. I used to feed like 20-22 shrimps a day with krills, pellets, worms all in one serving. It didn't help that the shrimps I got disolve in the water. I don't use that brand of shrimps anymore and I get the more fresh stuffs. I don't see the white worms swimming in the tank anymore but I do see them when I stirred up the gravel during a waterchange. Yes, I gravel vac religiously to get as debris out as possible. I hope those nasty worms die off and go away for good.

never going to happen even if you use chemicals, they are part of a healthy system and will keep on coming. an unseen force like good bacteria in your filter, at least they are when things are going well.
they live in the gravel so you will see them when you stir it up. they dont do any harm, they just look unsightly. but at the same time they are telling you something is wrong.

 

[FishGoneWild]

So there is no way to get rid of them? Not even chemicals? They're only present in the gravel now. I do not see any free swimming unless I stir the gravel during a water change. My filtration is clean, I'm not doing anything wrong. I might have introduced them when I was feeding them bad meal worms.

 

[Dragon Hunter]

stop worrying about worms while the lakers are playing

 

[rook45]

stop worrying about worms while the lakers are playing

Skip a day feeding now and then.

 

[cichlid2006]

So there is no way to get rid of them? Not even chemicals? They're only present in the gravel now. I do not see any free swimming unless I stir the gravel during a water change. My filtration is clean, I'm not doing anything wrong. I might have introduced them when I was feeding them bad meal worms.

no. you dont want to. refer to my previous post about being an unseen force like BB in your filter. they are scavengers. where would the world be without scavengers to clean up after us.
thats how it should be, only finding them if you go out of your way to find them. such as stirring up gravel.
good, how it should be.
no. they come from your water and are everywhere. you dont make a mistake and introduce them, they are already there. by the time you notice them thay have long since been introduced.