My light has a night mode were it's dark blue but I don't really use it, would that help at least a little bit? Tbh idc if their in the tank but I don't wanna see them all over the glass so would just scraping them off every now and then help? Or will they just come back instantly?
Dimming lights will not do anything, these worms are a result of water condition. Water condition needs to change to get rid of these guys (long term). If you want to see results within a week or two, medication is needed. I went through this about a couple months ago. Little suckers where in my substrate. When the substrate was moved the worms flooded the tank...... I used planaria zero to rid my tank of them. I have since increased water changes to the worms from reproducing...
Small bait fish minnows, sure chow down on them. African Cichlid fry do also. The mostly only come out at night, or if the oxygen levels in the substrate are reduced.
They will reproduce if well fed. They feed on tank left overs. Fine sand will prevent food stuff from accumulating, which will lower their numbers. As will a bare bottom tank.
If left alone they will slither back into the sand. Except the few dozen. That get lost.
As people have said, they happen when you overfeed, and don't do enough water changes with vacuuming, dimming lights, filtration, or removing carbon won'y effect them at all. In fact they love to live in dirty filters.
Fry eat them, and paradise gouramis (Macropodus sp) will gorge on them, but controlling feeding, regular filter cleaning, and vacuuming with water changes are really your only non-chemical solutions.
Fry eat them, and paradise gouramis (Macropodus sp) will gorge on them, but controlling feeding, regular filter cleaning, and vacuuming with water changes are really your only non-chemical solutions.
Detritus worms are harmless, basically the equivalent of earthworms in your aquarium. Probably the only reason you are seeing them is because of the substrate change which is where they are typically found in almost every tank. I found that just cutting back on feeding and basic water changes don't help that much once you have a high population. I would stir up the substrate to get as many as you can into the water column, change about 80% of the water, and rinse the heck out of the filter media several times in fresh water(add dechlorinator). You will probably need to do this every other day for about a week to really knock them down without meds.
