Small things in my filter...

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mrcrazypants05

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Well here's my first post on these boards, hoping someone can help me. First I'll say a little about my large tank. I have a 125 gallon aquarium... 4 giant danios, 1 "Albino" Oscar - ~2", 1 Jack Dempsey - ~2½", 1 Green Terror - ~1½", and one common pleco - ~5".


Anyway, I was cleaning one of my filters a little and noticed these small tadpole looking things about the size of a pin needle swimming around... only about a centimeter in length... Is the beneficial bacteria microscopic or is this what im seeing... What's going on inside my filter??? :screwy:

Filters: 2 Rena Xp3's
 
mrcrazypants05 said:
Well here's my first post on these boards, hoping someone can help me. First I'll say a little about my large tank. I have a 125 gallon aquarium... 4 giant danios, 1 "Albino" Oscar - ~2", 1 Jack Dempsey - ~2½", 1 Green Terror - ~1½", and one common pleco - ~5".


Anyway, I was cleaning one of my filters a little and noticed these small tadpole looking things about the size of a pin needle swimming around... only about a centimeter in length... Is the beneficial bacteria microscopic or is this what im seeing... What's going on inside my filter??? :screwy:

Filters: 2 Rena Xp3's
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benificial bacteria cannot be seen with the naked eye and they dont float around, they stic kto surfaces like filter media and decorations,

im not sure wha that is.
 
I did a fishless cycle for about a week and kept the ammonia at about 2.0 then I did a water change and added the danios. About a week after that I added the JD and the GT. 2 days later I added the Oscar. I just added the pleco yesterday, two days later. I've been doing 50-60% water changes every night since I added fish to keep ammonia down, and now I'm starting to see nitrites. Hoping the nitrite stage wont take as long as the ammonia has.
 
DeLgAdO said:
benificial bacteria cannot be seen with the naked eye and they dont float around, they stic kto surfaces like filter media and decorations,

im not sure wha that is.
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Yea thats what I thought... Very weird... I've tryed taking a picture, but no luck. I just have camcorder and it doesnt take very good pictures.
 
it almost sound like a parasite or type of maybe anchor worms. did you use any nitrifying bacteria additive? if not there is something called BIO-SPIRA by Marineland Labs and it wrks over night. i used it and it works great. it sounds like you have new tank syndrome. remove the worms, cycle your tank with bacteria and keep an eye on your fish.
 
They actually don't look like any pics of the anchor worm I've seen, but I'll get rid of all of them I can and hope for the best I guess... No where around here sells Bio-Spira, and I've heard mixed results from it. Anyway, thanks for the help.
 
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