Infested with tiny white worms

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krichardson said:
I've had them turn up from time to time and wondered how they got into a tank in the first place.They are living things and lax management doesn't just create them...
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Exactly my thoughts.. It's like they appear from thin air and drop into the water..
 
I recently got some of these when I won some Neocardina shrimp at a fish auction. They came in on the Najas plants the shrimp were packaged in. I have kept those cultures isolated in fish bowls, but they are considered to be harmless to aquarium fish. There are a lot of ways to deal with them. There's a saltwater product (flatworm exit) that is used to treat parasitic flatworms in reef tanks, but idk if it works in FW. You can probably salt them to death and, of course, copper always works. It can be a bit tough on FW fish though.
 
Don't over feed. These types of worms come from over feeding they will go away just do a few water changes more frequently for a few weeks and they should go away

EDIT:sorry for posting it was already said earlier haha :D

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Pomatomus said:
I recently got some of these when I won some Neocardina shrimp at a fish auction. They came in on the Najas plants the shrimp were packaged in. I have kept those cultures isolated in fish bowls, but they are considered to be harmless to aquarium fish. There are a lot of ways to deal with them. There's a saltwater product (flatworm exit) that is used to treat parasitic flatworms in reef tanks, but idk if it works in FW. You can probably salt them to death and, of course, copper always works. It can be a bit tough on FW fish though.
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I realized the worms were there after the addition of a pleco.. Could be from the pleco but it could also originate from my own tank which I might have missed..
I do add salt for every water change and seems to be less of them or perhaps they are just hiding in the filter lol

that_fish_Guy said:
Don't over feed. These types of worms come from over feeding they will go away just do a few water changes more frequently for a few weeks and they should go away

EDIT:sorry for posting it was already said earlier haha :D

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Yup that's exactly what I'm doing.. keeping up with water changes daily.. Seems to be working :)
I don't really think a few superworms a day for a 10"+ cichlid is overfeeding though..
 
H]-[H;6738566 said:
I realized the worms were there after the addition of a pleco.. Could be from the pleco but it could also originate from my own tank which I might have missed..
I do add salt for every water change and seems to be less of them or perhaps they are just hiding in the filter lol



Yup that's exactly what I'm doing.. keeping up with water changes daily.. Seems to be working :)
I don't really think a few superworms a day for a 10"+ cichlid is overfeeding though..
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well live foods tend to be messier than commercial pellets or flakes, maybe try feeding some NSL and see if there is a difference
 
Planaria can supposedly come in on actual fish food. IDK how true that is, just pet shop lore I've picked up.
 
Sounds more like detritus to me, do more frequent w/c's they are not harmful, just an eyesore

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increase the water movement in the tank, and more frequent water changes should eliminate them for the most part, most of the time they hide in the substrate or filter, every tank has them or will have them, other than being annoying to look at they are completely harmless, it's not caused by poor maintenance. now if they were brown then you would have detritus worms, which is a sign of poor maintenance.
 
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