I think I have detritus worms help

[scandel]

Hi all well I woke up today to find detritus worms I think on my aquarium glass I added a picture

Well I removed all my sand from my aquarium a week ago and I understand they live in the sand or gravel and only come out when oxygen is low in gravel but I don't have any gravel now. I also read that the deplete oxygen levels in the tank when seen on the glass like I am any had this happen???

What do I do?? And should I be worried ???


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[scandel]

Also I just noticed this at the bottom of my tank you can see like white stringy growth all round the bottom rim of my tank.. I cleaned it off a few days ago but it came back


What's going on


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[scandel]

This is a magnified shot of the detritus worms.. They are the white long specs crawling around the glass


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[flowerhornfishman]

nver seen anything like it before. i dont know if its harmful or not. but if i was you. i should just clean the tank. and everything else in it just in case.

 

[scandel]

Me too flowerhornfish they are usually in the sand or substrate its the first time I have seen them but then again it's the first time I removed the sand


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[sharizan]

Plecos would do the cleaning job for u if u have one..my tank also had those worm as we speak, but i have my plecos to control..i didnt know if those worm would do harm to fish,..

 

[scandel]

Ya Sharizan I thought about that but I have 2 large flowerhorns in there that will probably kill a pelco with in weeks..

Also I read online that they eat wasted food so maybe they will be beneficial for my tank ... But they look horrible

Maybe I should just return the sand


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[loureyes]

I have a similar issue with one of my systems I didnt change the filter sock on schedule and noticed them I think they do in fact harm the fish in some way since they come from overfeeding and bad water quality. I can imagine them living inside the fish or something lowering the fishes immune system . I hear they go away after several water changes So Far I removed all substrate replaced filtersock turned off uv and treated the system with salt and acrflavin(spellcheck). Im doin mabey 5 -10gallon waterchanges daily Mabey RD or somebody can chime in...

 

[flowerhornfishman]

yup, but u should clean ure tank first man. maybe it's infectious tht could harm ure fish. best dont take any risks.

 

[scandel]

I don't necessarily think I have them because of bad water conditions my tank is really clean.. I do water changes every week or 2weeks sometimes.

Personally I think it's because I removed the substrate and they have no where else to go.

I removed the 4 rafeal striped catfish to reduce fish waste. And reduced to feeding once a day. I am also going to do 2 water changes a week for a month and see what happens..


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